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Blogs From Before I Discovered My Neurodiversity

My Journey to Self-Discovery

This is a collection of personal pieces I wrote before discovering I was autistic. These writings capture my thoughts, struggles, and moments of clarity during a time when I was navigating life without the full understanding of my neurodivergence. Sharing these pieces with you is a way to honor my past and celebrate the journey of self-discovery and radical acceptance.

The Edges of Infinite Abundance

The woman I see in front of me, in the reflection of my laptop’s screen is radically different than anyone I’ve ever known. She is assured and focused. Playful. Ritualistic. Loving. Curious. Slower to respond…

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Infinite Softness

January 10th, 2022 I’m drinking coffee with Jessica Amos and friends on a Monday morning during her Open Hearts Club on Insight Timer, after a coral pink sunrise over the kitchen window where I made

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January 19th

Thank you for creating art. Thank you for shining you light. Thank you for sharing your darkness. Thank you for existing at the same time as me- and effectively narrating and consoling my exuberant and

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A Sacred Vision

“I am thriving. My energy is high. My connection is unwavering. To myself… To Creation. What’s the difference really?” “The veil is thin. I am strong. Resilient. Kind. Compassionate. I am thriving. I have learned

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Sacral Lessons in Love

Past relationships. I just realized that the scrutiny and analyzation of my current life did not exist in my younger years. Or, if they did, I don’t remember them. And you would think that between

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Musings of Friendships

My closest friends in life did not have this inner world. The one that I had, and saw my family members escape into, too. It’s obvious in hindsight. They built outer worlds. They still do.

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Family Matters

It feels as though I’ve always been the obvious black sheep in my family. But now that I sit with it, breathing, I remember fitting in much better in my early youth. In fact, I

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Family Matters Pt.2

My dad out mowing the lawn. Me, a child, in the window, watching him my bedroom window upstairs. His blonde hair reflecting the sun- wearing a tattered and worn white shirt, and those shiny black

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The Beginning

I remember one winter sitting at my childhood desk turned office in the downstairs corner room of my parent’s home- writing. Writing things that flew out of me as if swept out of a long-closed

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Dineros

Usually the idea of leaning on my parents financially strikes a match over anxiety’s gasoline and I lose my ability to unclench until the situation changes. It has been one of the most uncomfortable experiences

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The Duality

I dream of a life of art. Everywhere I look- colors like bright turquoises and fuchsias, mountain tops and endless valleys. To live by the ocean- waking up and swimming alongside sunrise. Sitting on my

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Meat, Sun & A World of Wonder

I do not see myself seperate from the cycles of nature. Everything is love. The way we- humans and animals- nurture our families. How we hunt and kill to feed them. Nourishment is love. A

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What Are You Sick For?

If you haven’t pushed your sore and aching body and mind into meditation or morning sunlight – or better yet, both, at the same time… Do you even want to heal? Have you ever considered

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Returning

I find myself on an upswing- a rare current of inner trust and devotion. Swung onto my knees screaming collective energy out of me. Back into the streets, out the balcony door- burning Palo Santo

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Just Hold On We’re Going Home

A Reflection During Saturn’s Final Return. Memories of 2017-2019 have revisited, flashing quickly across my mind’s eye, seemingly from nowhere. I’m pretty sure I only have one month left in my Saturn return. Perhaps that’s

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Health Anxiety

In a time where we have more anxiety about our health than actual issues with our health… I see how it could be a side effect of a changing system. Being here for both mainstream

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Launch Day

Launch day. It’s something I can’t avoid anymore. It’s funny how many times I’ve been faced with the question- “but can you?” “But can you help people?” “But can you say that? Or what about

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Family Matters Pt. 3

Sometimes being in a human body is too much for me. The bones and flesh feel like a responsibility- and I worry about doing it all wrong. Sometimes being in a human body is too

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You Can Suck At Your Hobbies

I love art. Music, photography, aesthetics, storytelling… and being inspired by each. Now it seems to simple to pursue a life of art- openly and authentically. I try to recall why it wasn’t always so

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Adriana

I’ve spent most of my life correcting the pronunciation of my name. Maybe because it has a Portuguese or Spanish pronunciation and I look European or Canadian people assume it’s “Ay-dree-ana” when in reality it’s

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I’m Staying Here

The birds, bees and eyes of people that still swoop and land on me. Delighting. I know there must be something in my energy. In my energy field Love and light I had to integrate

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The Real Detox

Do detox things and think detox thoughts. OR Just do the real detox which isn’t what you perceive as detox at all- feeling and releasing emotions stored in the body facing the version of self

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New Age Spirituality

Hi welcome to spirituality- Have you always been generally fit- but now you’re taking it to a new level? Have you included breathwork and perhaps even meditation? Are you growing your hair out? Do you

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My Life Will Be In Poems

My life will be in poems. The whole way- beginning to end, writing a page a day. The creases and lines in the smile of the passerby, the swing by the lake, the tool box

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Along The Way

Challenging & Surrendering Identity To Cultivate Authenticity I see how myself and a few others have been queued at an energetic standstill- called to leave behind everything that doesn’t work in exchange for what does.

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Don’t Listen

Go Within The world will tell a breath guide how to breathe, the life coach how to live, the poet that it has to be hard and unartistic, the traumatized that they just need to

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The Abandonment Wound

The ultimate human crisis. Do we know the moon never leaves? Even if it does not show. Do we know the sun never leaves? Even behind clouds. We’re at each others necks all the time-

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How To Forgive Yourself

An intuitive list interwoven with Buddhist wisdom- 1) Know it is the highest act of love and consciousness you do for yourself and others. “being able to forgive ourselves is necessary for self-acceptance, which is

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Dramatic and Unseen

Is she dramatic or is she unseen? Is she descriptive or is she well-practiced in explaining herself where she doesn’t need to? I’d rather love people and understand the things behind them that makes them

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Let’s Talk About Autism

I haven’t typed a journal entry in awhile. But my hope in doing it this way is to capture some of the helpful things I’ve integrated into my life to support autism and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. 

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Stop Explaining Yourself

Stop explaining yourself. For a few days, weeks, even months basking in the absence of it, if you can. See the difference in your personal peace and how you carry yourself. Observe how your internal

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I Don’t Trust Society Anymore

I don’t trust society anymore. I can’t delude myself into thinking the people around me know what’s best for me, themselves, or anything at all for that matter.   The men I’ve met are seriously

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