The Autistic Journal

As autistic people grow up (ADHD people too), we learn from a very early age that the worst thing we can be is inconvenient. If we must...

As someone who is autistic, and queer, and fat, I have spent my whole life searching for acceptance. In some places, I have found it. In...

When pursuing church leadership as an autistic person, the most crucial concern is always the effect this may have on the neurotypical...

As any autistic person, or really any disabled person knows, there are so many things in life where you feel people just moving on...

Autistic people are often seen as having less fulfilling spiritual practices in their faith lives, mainly because the insight on...

This describes the situations before an upcoming event or task where someone has free time. In reality, this time could be used to...

The term “Neuroqueer” was coined by Dr. Nick Walker, Athena Lynn Michaels-Dillon, and Remi Yergeau and essentially speaks to the...

This describes the experience of being unable to accurately gauge the time or passage of time. More common with ADHD, time agnosia could...

This is a poem written about my experience with ADHD and sensory input a few years back Focus I lock eyes with yours Movement Sound My...

PDA is when someone experiences intense distress when confronted with demands and expectations. They will go out of their way to avoid...

When I was a child, I couldn’t be autistic Because I was talking so young. Then, I couldn’t be autistic Because I was already diagnosed...

Bionic reading is a new font style that highlights certain parts of words so neurodivergent brains can process them more quickly....

There’s an old phrase of advice that says to “listen to understand, not to respond.” This wisdom encourages people to engage deeply with...

This experience arises when someone is forced to make a decision and freezes up. The anxiety surrounding the decision-making process...

As someone who is quite nonchalant when it comes to gender identity and expression, I very rarely reject any sort of pronoun, label, or...

Jesus’s divinity can be seen in the form of leadership. We could say that Jesus was born to be a leader given his immaculate birth but...

Through all of Jesus’s teaching and inclusion, there were of course those who thrived in the cultural standard that Jesus was changing....

These social aspects of Jesus’s life affect the very core of his ministry. One of the most defining traits of autism is a reduced...

Of course, this difference in communication leads to a strange dynamic in Jesus’s social life. Autistic people are often stereotyped as...

As Jesus taught about the kingdom of God in his ministry, he preached through parables and questions and a sense of humor based on irony...