Holding On – thoughts on suicide
I heard the news of Robin Williams’ death late on Monday and felt the familiar, hypocritical shock when I learned it was suicide...
Adult diagnosis – how does it help?
Getting my diagnosis was like being handed a key to my prison, not a life sentence.
The Question
My mother sat me down at the table, “I think you’re old enough now to understand... your father’s not well”
Point & Shoot: Creativity
We had the luxury of a three-day weekend thanks to last Friday's PA day, and right from the start it was an outpouring of creative energy...
Where Have You Been?
I’ve mentally written and re-written the start of this post a thousand times over but when it came to putting it on the page I always lost my nerve. It never sounded right...
“D’ya like dags?”
The dogs in my past are bound forever to the struggles or deceptions I faced at the time...
When Aspergers Is Good News
We go months in our family without seeing a doctor, then suddenly here we are, test-driving not one but two distinct areas of the Canadian healthcare system...
BPD: Suspended Animation
To understand the world at all sometimes I have to just focus on a tiny bit of it – look very hard at what’s close to hand and make it stand in for the whole...
Shoot & Quote: Intangible Water
I've spent a long time looking for answers and it seems all I needed to know was there in the intangible element I'm naturally drawn to...
Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers
Sunday was a bad day. Black flowers blossomed in the hothouse of my mind, staining my brain with their blooms like cryptic Rorschach blots. Hello BPD my old friend...
