As my username might suggest, I am on the higher-functioning side of the spectrum, but I went undiagnosed until adulthood because the condition is apparently much harder to detect in women. It is thought that this is because women are conditioned very early on to mimic others, making it easier for autistic women to…

Not to be a horse nerd, but really type-y endurance breeds like the Akhal Teke are often a lot ribbier than most are used to. A horse built and conditioned for long desert trips won’t carry an ounce more fat than it needs. That guy is clearly in peak shape and has probably been worked recently to make his muscles more…

Last year, smoke from the wildfires choked my town on the Peninsula like thick fog for days on end. You couldn’t go outside without tearing up and coughing, and we were far, far away from any actual fires. I don’t think that wet winter is going to be as helpful as we thought. Bracing for another rough summer and more…

My manfriend’s brother went up to Alaska two years back to work the fisheries, but he ended up sitting on his ass for months with no fish to process. It’s already been declared that there will be no salmon fishing here in WA this year because of the heat, and we will probably go right back into drought after a wet…

I’m looking at Seattle across the Sound on this beautiful, sunny day, and y’all are objectively wrong. There are porpoises splashing about out there, you guys.

I’ll have to pick this up and give it a read. Is the author autistic as well? Doesn’t matter too much either way; I also really enjoy seeing how neurotypicals imagine us ASD folks think. Some get it more right than others.