I don’t really know where to start. I feel like I always have so much to say! But then when the time comes, I have no idea where to begin.. I imagine a lot of you reading this can relate! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why am I doing this?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The past few years I have learnt a lot about myself. Since working in a school environment with many children with SEND, I started to realise that many of the traits I was learning about autism, fit my own experience of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve spent the years researching, learning, and starting to feel like I finally have an identity. The past year in particular, I have done a lot of therapy, and put a lot of work into unmasking myself. I have also faced a lot of discrimination, and since trying to drop my mask and stop putting on an act of “being normal” and trying to fit in, I have gone through a lot of hurt from “friends”, lost friendships, and spent many days walled in by anxiety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n However, I have also felt a freedom that I have never experienced before. I have gained closer relationships with those that truly matter, and I have worked on being kinder to myself and giving myself compassion when I need it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So the reason I’m now ready to start a blog<\/mark>, is because the most recent discrimination I have endured was the final straw. Why should I keep quiet, and go through this journey alone, when I know there’s probably other people out there like me, that don’t realise they don’t have to accept this kind of treatment. I am fighting back for myself at last. I refuse to walk away and let them get away with it. And I want others to know they can do the same. The side benefit is having an outlet to document my thoughts and feelings, and also build what could be a supportive website with some helpful info pages on what personally has worked for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So, on that note, I leave you with a promise. I promise that I will work my ass off to advocate for myself, and others like me, whenever and wherever I can. I hope that along the way, we can support each other and build a more compassionate space for ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t really know where to start. I feel like I always have so much to say! But then when the time comes, I have no idea where to begin..…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummymeltdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummymeltdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummymeltdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummymeltdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummymeltdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mummymeltdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/mummymeltdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummymeltdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummymeltdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummymeltdown.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}