10/08/2025
Let me preface this by saying this isn't a political post and I don't want any political bu****it in the comments. I belong to neither cult, if you need to spew your rhetoric there are 1000 other places that'll welcome you.
There's been a lot of talking and yelling about autism in the media these past few months, because why not throw more debris into our already decaying orbits.
I don't know how many of my followers are autism parents, but with 90k followers across the social media swamp, statistically there have to be a lot of you
I see you. You give multiple days of your week doing a high stress job that most people wouldn't do. Then you go home to a non-verbal kid, or a perpetually stimming kid, or a kid who doesn't do much of anything. Or in my case, a kid who gets stuck in loops of the same conversations over and over again for hours, for days. For someone who hates repeating himself, the universe sure has my number.
I see you. This world has been engineered to grind us down yet we hold on. Through love, dedication and pride of purpose.
Parenthood is hard. It's beautiful and baffling and some days outright soul crushing. But I'm here for it and I know you all are too.
Don't let the bastards get you down, you've got enough on your plate. The people who've tread where you've tread know the struggle, even if theirs doesn't look quite like yours.
I'm just glad my kid loves sea shanties and viking metal, some of you guys got screwed in the musical obsession department.