Reframing Autism’s ‘Welcome Pack’ 2024-04-17

[Neri]

I was raised "hippy" and sure that has influenced my fashion sense. No tatts, no facial piercings, no "modern" hairstyle (although I used to have dreadlocks many years ago, which is really, the opposite of "modern") I guess I am considered a "colourful" character and I am artsy, but, I'm not down with a lot of what is modernly trendy ATM (probs can't speak of such because I'm talking the forbidden p word stuff) and I'm sure (although I didn't dl the whole thing, coz I'm on my phone, I will dl it on my laptop) that I won't relate to plenty in the booklet. I'm an Aussie but I haven't really found any "likeminded" Autistic people yet, I guess the closest is my guy friend and he is a very working class looking bald man who works as a removalist (he used to be in IT) . We are misfits in our own community (Nimbin, near Byron Bay) . I don't really fit in here, in many ways. Here, being the forums. We are all such individuals, a very diverse bunch. "If you've met one autistic person you've met one autistic".