“Mindfulness as an autistic person has been like finding the Swiss army knife of survival skills.” Jim Irion.
In times like these, where I find myself at the mercy of no social or economic integration, extensive unemployment, and post-traumatic stress, I can use all the help I can get. And believe me, I need it now more than ever. That is why I am returning to a topic I originally wrote about at the end of 2022. Thanks to autistic people for helping me discover my identity in the world, I was able to discover something else truly remarkable.
Mindfulness used to be nothing more than a concept I found utterly confusing. In fact, the first time I sat down and seriously tried to write about it, I struggled for two weeks straight just to make sense of it. My eyes literally felt as if they would pop out of my head. Now, I rely on mindfulness every day because I know just how useful it is. All that was missing to unlock its full potential was to know my actual autistic self.
You can find the blog at the link below:
https://awesomismmom.com/the-potential-of-autistic-creativity/
