“I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone.”

Sergio Troncoso, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays

Growing Up Girl

sexual assault as standard

A Knight To Remember

Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament

A Book, A Bereavement, And A Betrayal

Grandad's Ghost, or How To Fuck Up A Funeral

Why An Autism Diagnosis Is Like Finding Out You’re Adopted

A good story, told often enough, puts you in rooms never occupied.

Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

If people realised how hard autistics have to work to connect, they’d understand… empathy is a two-way street.

How do you know your interracial marriage will work?

When K and I decided to be together it turns out, looking back, neither one of us gave it a lot of thought…

How People With Autism Fake It

Recently, the mere anticipation of writing has resulted in instant mental paralysis and thought desertion – until this morning when I spilt an entire cup of coffee; the second one in a fortnight. To put it succinctly, I lost my shit

Making A Meal Of Ramadan

Is it just me or does Ramadan seem to get more air-time and column inches with every passing year?

Doing Autism Differently

With a lump in my throat I described my beautiful, clever, mischievous daughter and discussed all the ways we could help make her future the antithesis of my past.

An Apologist’s Apology

Instead of building intercultural bridges as I imagined, I was adding my bricks to the prisons so many are walled up in by their own communities…

The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something

They said on the radio today this was the coldest February since eighteen-something. After a certain point cold is cold is cold.

Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

I don’t need to take on the responsibility for changing other people’s misconceptions. Learning to be honest and authentic – standing in my own truth – is more important right now.