When I first started to write again in 2020, I used this quote on my front page, it really spoke to me. I had a therapist then who, at the end of one session, suggested I write a book. I’d always wanted to… but the next day, the whole book outline came to me. I started to pull together a lot of old writing I’d done when I was in my early 20s and by the following session I’d had nearly twenty thousand words written/put together. And then everything changed.

That will be for another day, though.

Not long ago l, I found this quote and it wasn’t long after I had decided to get this website going again. When I read it, I thought, I’m trying… it would be nice if I could be permitted to have the ASD I’ve been diagnosed with. I had found joy, contentedness and what seemed to be my authentic self… and yet, it’s been denied in favour of psychiatric diagnoses for almost four years.

So now, I will find joy in new knowledge and lived experience to advocate with. 

And I will write my story. It really is a sorta fairytale, to me.