Although I’m not a member to see the rest, I can identify plenty with what I was able to see…

So accurate, in fact, that it felt creepy when I started reading it here. My last article was on April, entitled Autism PTSD Awareness Day; a call to action to create and recognize the awareness day itself.

This will probably be one of my last major articles until… well.. I don’t know when. Gareth and fellow readers, I strongly encourage you to read it. Layers. Up to as many as five layers of post-traumatic stress. Five. Minimum.

I’m a problem-solver by necessity. Not choice. If I don’t solve the societal issues holding me back, who else will? This next years is going to be scary for me as an autistic advocate. The last time I lacked a pathway to economic integration I attempted suicide in seven months.

The first sentence of this article says it all. Time is not in our side…

For some of us, time is running out. I’m going to stay and fight harder because I know what happens when we give up.

I’m a suicide attempt survivor.

I’ve been there…