thoughts of an aspie

TOAA Reflections A Survivor’s Guide to Dealing With SAD/Seasonal Depression By Melissa K. Vassar-Belloso Lately I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus from my normally scheduled creative work. It’s just been too hard to focus with the onset of my Seasonal Affective Disorder. I actually made a sort of mini awareness post on that subject earlier in the week…

TOAA Reflections I Wish People Would Actually Try Listening to me By Melissa K. Vassar-Belloso I’ve been going through a lot of things lately and I’ve wanted to talk to someone so badly. The issue isn’t that there aren’t people making some effort. The issue is that the approach is just really wrong. I’ve talked in the past about why…

TOAA Reflections Why SSDI Isn’t Truly Helping the Disabled By Melissa K. Vassar-Belloso So, obviously this is not the regularly scheduled blog for this week but it’s something I felt like I had to write. I’ve been going through the appeals process for SSDI for months now and I received my third denial this week saying that their council didn’t…

What are you? Who are you? If you had to describe who you are as a person, what would that sound like? As human beings, we have a strange tendency to need to classify things and while this can boost our understanding of the world around us, it can also box us in. We live in a society where our…

Please note that this blog contains serious and graphic discussion of abuse and other sensitive topics. Do not read this if you think that’s going to bother you. “The Truth of Unemployment and Why You Should Be Kind to Your Children” By Melissa K. Vassar-Belloso There are a lot of unemployed people in America right now and while some of them…

Every person has a hobby or something that they feel drawn to and that includes those of us with disabilities. However,for those on the  autism spectrum, understanding and honing what they’re most interested in is not only beneficial but almost essential. Today we’re going to discuss how people on the autism spectrum can benefit and possibly even profit from taking…

Whether it’s in passing or via social media, we’re all familiar with stigma. It’s a word we often hear being thrown around in a number of social injustices,a favored hashtag by passionate social media users on a mission, and a wall for those of us who are shuffled into a social minority. But what is stigma? What does it mean…

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Please note that this blog contains serious and graphic discussion of suicide and other sensitive topics. Do not read this if you think that’s going to bother you.   TOAA Reflections: Struggling from Inside By Melissa K. Vassar-Belloso It’s been a while since I’ve done something really counting as mainly a personal reflection for the series. I’ve wanted to really…

Throughout our lives we encounter many people. Some are casual acquaintances and some are considerably closer. Among those people you’re bound to run into a few that are toxic or difficult to cope with. But in a society where we’re so eager to publicly post we’ve “cancelled” a person, can you really and truly do that? Relationships are much more…