Elder Queer Autistic / AuDHD disability rights activist. Mixed Indigenous gently unlearning, learning and reconnecting 🤎 #AutisticOxygen #AutisticElders
Dec 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
It's been 5.5 months since I had #COVID19. This is the best I've felt.
I ended up with #LongCovid. I lost my summer to the infection. Most days it was all I could do to walk to the end of my driveway and get my mail.
The neurological aspects of the result of the virus have ++
been the most difficult to deal with. The brain fog. The tingling and numb toes and fingers.
Then there's the cardio aspects - months of arrhythmia. I needed an ECG.
Then there's how my bloodwork has been a mess. Sugars up, cholesterol up, blood pressure up, liver enzymes ++
Aug 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Last night I was genuinely struggling. I thought about calling a help line. I thought about what it would be like to permanently escape. I thought about my dogs, my sister, my mom, my husband.
I thought about my dearest friend, and the few close friends I have.
I thought ++
about how helpless I feel watching this planet spin more and more out of control every day.
I thought about how powerless I feel. How hopelessness is taking me over.
I thought about the weight of my trauma. If it could ever be untangled.
I thought about being Indigenous and ++
Apr 14, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
In my late 40's, seeing nothing in #NovaScotia for #ActuallyAustistic women, I started a group which has become a program.
The program expanded to the creation of a teen group as well.
Yesterday our teen group did a scavenger hunt in the Camp Hill Cemetery.
I developed the ++
activity. I provided a history, etiquette for while we were there, and the questions of what we were looking for.
One of the graves that I wanted them to find was Viola Desmond.
We did and talked about her activism and reflected on the changes she made.
