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Autistic Animist
A Blog for Magic & Neurodiversity


Autism, Animism, and why the two are inseparable *for me*
Beginning Day 10 (or 11? See yesterday’s post!) of my 30-days-of-blogging challenge, I want to first acknowledge that the small actions I...

Autistic Animist
Apr 11, 20217 min read


Making Invisible Struggle Visible -- Neuronormativity, Ableism as the Air we Breathe
And it’s Day 9(ish) of my 30-day-blogging challenge! By “ish” I mean that I “cheated”. And by “cheated” I mean that I made an...

Autistic Animist
Apr 10, 20217 min read


“You are Okay -- Who You Are is Okay”
Phew… The topic I had set aside for Day 8 of my 30-days-of-blogging challenge is a big one, a nebulous one, and a little bit of a break...

Autistic Animist
Apr 8, 20213 min read


Autism, Empathy, and Being a “People Person”
It’s Day 7 of my 30-days-of-blogging April challenge--finishing out the first full week!--and the topic I had listed to discuss today is...

Autistic Animist
Apr 7, 20215 min read


Autistic Workplace Accommodations, Disclosure, Neurodiversity Training and ERGs
For today, Day 6 of my 30-days-of-blogging challenge, I want to wade into the enormous topic of Work and Employment from an autistic...

Autistic Animist
Apr 6, 20216 min read


Critical Resources I Consumed During my Journey of Autistic Self-Discovery
So I will admit straight off: yesterday’s post was a bit of a long and winding one, and did not particularly go the direction I intended...

Autistic Animist
Apr 5, 20215 min read


My Autism Diagnosis Journey, Part 2 (Discovery & Acceptance)
Today, I am following up on yesterday’s Part 1 of this two-part series on my diagnosis journey, where I talked about the (relatively)...

Autistic Animist
Apr 4, 20219 min read


My Autism Diagnosis Journey, Part 1 (Search & Assessment)
For Days 3 and 4 of my 30-days-of-blogging challenge, I would like to talk a little bit about the process I went through to discover for...

Autistic Animist
Apr 3, 20215 min read


Spoons, Spoon Theory, Autism and the Social Model of Disability
For day two of my 30-day-blogging challenge in April 2021, I want to dive right into the topic of spoons and spoon theory -- since this...

Autistic Animist
Apr 2, 20215 min read


April, Autism “Awareness”, and 30 Days of Blogging
As I write this, it is April 1, the beginning of so-called “Autism Awareness Month”. There’s a lot that can be said about that… and has...

Autistic Animist
Apr 1, 20213 min read


Thoughts from an Autistic Animist
Thanks for your interest in my blog on neurodiversity, magic, and the life in between! I wanted to open things up with some introduction,...

Autistic Animist
Nov 3, 20204 min read
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