Meaghan Newson - An old maid's skull phrenologised: stories from my autistic life

6 September 2021 by Meaghan

Excuse me, I’m just frying my autistic brain on your fluorescent lights

Fluorescent lights are pretty high on my list of intolerable things. They wield a malevolent power over people with brains that are wired like mine. This is what happened when I worked in the most brightly lit office I’ve ever encountered.

23 August 2021 by Meaghan

When autism makes even the fun things hard, but you do them anyway

I love to hang out in cafés as much as any neurotypical human. But even in a small and happy place there’s still a lot of unfiltered information coming in that takes up a lot of my processing speed. Here’s why I might not always seem like I understand what you’re trying to tell me.