Hello, and welcome to my blog. I’ll introduce myself here. 🐱
My name’s Cindy. I am 33 years old as of writing this. I am on the autism spectrum. I say this because it is a huge part of who I am and how my brain works. It’s not all that I am – but a big part of me and so I feel that anyone who is going to get to know me should first know this, because I have been told before that other people can’t tell I have autism (probably thanks to my years long practice of masking), and they would put neurotypical expectations onto me that I could never live up to.
I wanted to start this blog to help myself find my own voice and practice talking as someone who struggles to talk about themselves without feeling weird about it. It may be true that not many people read blogs anymore, but that’s okay. In fact, that helps me feel a little less anxious about starting one. If barely anyone reads it anyway, why should I be so nervous?
I want to express my thoughts here, unfiltered, possibly weird, for anyone who is bored enough to read and may want to get to know me better. In person I can be quiet and reserved, and sometimes there may not be much going on in my brain (especially if I’m not caffeinated), but other times there really is a lot going on, and I just want to try to put it into words. There are other sides of me, and my goal is to open up and be as vulnerable and authentic as I can in this one life that I have. These blogs are just who I am and what I am feeling at the current time they are posted or random things I enjoy. Some deep, some not. If you read them I thank you for taking the time out of your life to listen. Some people don’t care enough to try to understand others, and it says something about you that you are trying.
I never claimed to be normal 