2020: Reflecting on the year from my autistic perspective

Emergent Divergence

Perhaps I am a little early on this, after all, we still have around 6 weeks left of this year, but it felt right at this point to reflect on the year from my autistic viewpoint.

December 31st 2019, I had my usual gathering with my friends, but this time I didn’t make my usual speech about how the next year was going to be the year that my life took off, I had given up hope of a better future and resigned myself to the present, more so, my past. How wrong I was.

Within a month I had found a house, and by February 1st I was able to say that (after years of living back with my mother following my addiction and psychosis) I was living independently again. Over the following months my advocacy work would start to pick up momentum (thanks in no small part to…

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My name is Nathan Young. I'm the founder of the Autism Candles project. I am a self-advocate. The candle project exist to make a statement about inclusion and opportunity. My email is nathan@autismcandles.com. Feel free to contact me. https://www.autismcandles.com

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