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Welcome to my writing archive.
Here youโll find short descriptions and links to personal blogs, stories, reflections, and posts I've shared across platforms.ย
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Shortlisted (Top 6) - Blank Spacesย
December 2025 Write Prompt Challenge
The Unmeasured Space - Flash fiction
Featured Publication: The Unseen Battle Within
Originally featured as an Editorโs Pick - Litro Magazine (USA)ย
A 1,700-word personal essay about love, loss, and the invisible barriers of living for decades without the language of autism and ADHD. It traces the unraveling of a cherished relationship, showing how panic, masking, and sensory overwhelm can make ordinary closeness feel impossible, and how survival can be mistaken for indifference.
This piece is adapted from my memoir-in-progress From Shadows, which explores self-discovery shaped by a late diagnosis of autism and ADHD.
Just Breathe
Personal Essay - Completed March 2026
Currently under simultaneous submission
A reflective essay exploring the modern trade-off between visible physical progress and the invisible mental burden of a hyper-connected digital life.
๐ A publication link will be added once the piece is placed.
Submission Hangover
Personal Essay - Completed March 2026
Currently under simultaneous submission
A reflective essay exploring the psychological aftermath of sending creative work into the world, and the restless search for control that often follows submission.
๐ A publication link will be added once the piece is placed.
This Should Be Me
Personal Essay - Completed March 2026
Currently under simultaneous submission
A reflective essay about a lifetime of careful concealment shaped by external expectations, and the late autism diagnosis that reveals the self beneath it.
๐ A publication link will be added once the piece is placed.
The Undefined Season
Personal Essay - Completed February 2026
Currently under simultaneous submission
A reflective essay examining the contrast between the structured culmination of professional athletics and the quiet endurance of lives lived in permanent preparation. The piece explores what it means to train without a finish line, and the ache of effort that unfolds without a closing ceremony.
๐ A publication link will be added once the piece is placed.
Writing at the Edge of the Body
Personal Essay โ Completed February 2026
Forthcoming in Poets & Writers
A reflective essay examining writing at the edge of capacity, exploring how late-diagnosed autism and ADHD reshape discipline, endurance, attention, precision, and presence on the page.
Captivity
Personal Essay - Completed February 2026
Currently under simultaneous submission
A reflective personal essay about winter, confinement, and the quiet erosion of freedom when endurance becomes a way of life.
๐ A publication link will be added once the piece is placed.
The Shape of Pity
Personal Essay - Completed January 2026
Currently under simultaneous submission
A concise personal essay exploring autonomy, consent, and the uneasy line between compassion and desire. Through a single encounter, the piece examines how pity can quietly complicate choice.
๐ A publication link will be added once the piece is placed.
Unremarkable Motion
Personal Essay - Completed January 2026
Currently under simultaneous submission
A reflective personal essay examining the distance between how movement is experienced by others and how it is lived inside a body shaped by constant vigilance.
๐ A publication link will be added once the piece is placed.
The Distance Between Us
Personal Essay - Completed December 2025
Currently under simultaneous submission
A personal essay examining how childhood exposure to family violence shapes a lifelong posture of vigilance, distance, and restraint, tracing how early survival strategies echo through adult relationships.
๐ A publication link will be added once the piece is placed.
The Architecture of Limits
Personal Essay - Completed December 2025
Currently under simultaneous submission
A reflective personal essay about how the body holds what the mind avoids, and how the limits we carry often reveal themselves only when life finally stops demanding motion. The piece examines the emotional cost of living without the language of autism, the collapse that followed years of masking, and the clarity that comes when burnout leaves you unable to outrun the truth anymore.
๐ A publication link will be added once the piece is placed.
When the Past Wakes Up Before I Do
Personal Essay - Completed November 2025
Currently under simultaneous submission
A reflective personal essay about how writing a memoir can stir memories that surface before youโre ready for them. It explores the blurred edge between dreams, trauma, and storytelling, and how the past can feel startlingly present during the writing process.
๐A publication link will be added once the piece is placed.
Understanding Unstructured Obligation in Late-Diagnosed Autistic Adults
A reflection on why informal expectations, invisible debts, and unspoken reciprocity can feel overwhelming for late-diagnosed autistic adults, and how clarity, structure, and consented exchange can make collaboration more sustainable.
Navigating Grief as a Late-Diagnosed Autistic Adultย ย
A reflection on the bittersweet relief and unexpected grief that can come from receiving an autism diagnosis later in life.ย ย
Understanding Internalized Ableism and its Impact on Late-Diagnosed Autistic Adults
A reflection on how years of misdiagnosis and social pressure can lead autistic adults to turn misunderstanding inward.
Understanding Fawning in Late-Diagnosed Autism, a Journey Towards Authenticity
An exploration of how people-pleasing and conflict avoidance can mask deeper autistic traits, and how unlearning these habits can help you reclaim your voice.
Understanding Impostor Syndrome in Late-Diagnosed Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
How masking, comparison, and outdated stereotypes can make us question whether weโre โreally autistic,โ and why that doubt is more common than you think.
Burnout and Late Autism Diagnosis
A look at how autistic burnout can push us to a breaking point, and why that moment can finally lead to answers.
Understanding AUDHD, the Intersection of Autism and ADHD
An exploration of how autism and ADHD overlap, diverge, and interact, and what this dual identity means for late-diagnosed adults.
Why Anxiety is Prevalent in Late-Diagnosed AUDHD Adults and the Misdiagnosis Dilemma
A look at how lifelong anxiety often masks undiagnosed autism and ADHD, and the emotional toll of being misread for decades.
Unmasking AUDHD in Your 50s, Navigating Late-Diagnosis Burnout and Isolation
A personal reflection on reaching breaking point, discovering the truth behind lifelong struggles, and beginning the slow, painful process of unmasking.
AI and Creativity: Breaking Down the Stigma
A look at how AI is helping late-diagnosed neurodivergent individuals reclaim their creativity, challenge outdated labels, and tell stories that matter.
Understanding Unmasking and Identity in Late-ASD and ADHD Diagnosis
Explores the emotional complexity of unmasking after years of performing neurotypicality, and how rediscovering identity becomes both a liberation and a loss.
Navigating Family Obligations as a Late-Diagnosed Neurodivergent Adult
Reflects on the emotional labor of managing caregiving roles while trying to heal, unmask, and understand oneโs own needs after a late diagnosis.
What Happens When Professional Support Doesnโt Feel Supportiveย
Even when we communicate clearly, support can still fall short in ways that are hard to name. This letter puts words to the quiet disconnect many of us experience, especially when our needs are minimized by those meant to help.
The Ache of the In-Between
A quiet interaction brings unexpected disorientation. This personal reflection explores the confusing emotional terrain of unmasking after a late autism diagnosis.
Why Autism Is a Disability
Pushback against the word โdisabilityโ is common in the autistic community, but many of us live with barriers that can't be explained away by difference alone. This post explores why naming autism as a disability can be a grounding act of truth, not defeat.
Understanding Derealization and Cognitive Override Failure
A trauma-informed reflection on why logic sometimes disappears, what dissociation really is, and how sensory overwhelm and autistic wiring can lead to a nervous system override, especially when youโve always had to hold it together.
Head vs. Body: Why the Standard Mental Health Model Misses the Mark
What if the antidepressants werenโt the full answer, not because they failed, but because they were aimed at the wrong target? This post explores how, after years of burnout and misdiagnosis, a medication meant for nerve pain revealed what the mental health model had missed all along: that regulation is somatic, not just psychiatric.
The Night I Tried Stand-Up
A side story about my brief attempt at comedy, the push-pull I now recognize as autistic, and what happened when I finally found myself under the spotlight.
Bittersweet Roast
A story about opening my dream cafรฉ, the struggles I faced, and the quiet cost of pushing through while undiagnosed.
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