The Cost of Clarity

The Cost of Clarity

There is a version of me that certain people still think they know. They call her name, and I hear it like a sound from another room – familiar, but distant. That version is receding. Not because I abandoned her, but because I kept growing when she stopped. Awareness...
For Lola

For Lola

Little soul in a curly coat, You never needed words to speak. A nudge, a lean, a look that said “I’m here” on every heavy week. You carried love so quietly, The kind that asks for nothing back. And now the house will hold its breath In every space your paws once...
Home

Home

For the ones still wearing someone else’s face There was a girl who learned earlyhow to read a room before she read a book,who studied mouths and silencesthe way other children studied shapes,who built herself a second skinso convincingshe forgot it wasn’t...
One Bridge, Two Mind

One Bridge, Two Mind

OK but now I’m done explaining. How nice would it be if neurotypicals got curious about neurodivergence the way we’re expected to study them just to survive a conversation? It’s tiring. The overexplaining. The translating yourself in real time for someone who isn’t...
You Can’t Manufacture Good

You Can’t Manufacture Good

There are two kinds of people the world loves to compare. The first one stumbles. Makes mistakes. Maybe even falls hard enough to end up on the wrong side of a system that wasn’t built to forgive. But their soul is intact. They learn. They turn it around. They carry...