The Blog that Used to Be About Australia: A Guide to My Blog

Hello!

Here are some things I wish more people would read.

One of my other novels Thirty Cats (about a young adult with Neurofibromatosis) is on Kindle.

And here's a link to links of more of my fiction.

2. If you're into stories about neurology or shitty experiences with doctors, you might like my neurology disaster story.

3. In 2018, I read through all my old Hallmark diaries and wrote blog posts about that experience.

Here's the index of that and here's the first post —My life in 1985 (part 1). Where I meet Glynis Carolyn, my newest Cabbage Patch Doll.

4. In 2021, after years of indifference...I decided to embrace the autism label. Here's my first post about that adventure. I wrote several other posts after that one. I should do an index but don't feel motivated enough at this post.

Some other key posts, though:

Autism and self-esteem

Labeling Myself as Autistic Should Be About

Reasons for Me Not to Get an Autism Diagnosis (spoiler: I got a diagnosis)

What they Said about Me in the 1970's

Sensory Issues

The Confusing Rainbow (A post that I was at first too chicken to post, because it kind of goes against dogmas of the #ActuallyAutistic community)

I Now Have the Official Autism Stamp

No Cheese Pizza, No Soup, and Definitely No Mayonnaise

An Exhausting List of My Special Interests (which turn out to not all be special interests, actually)

I've been creating autistic-related AI-art on NightCafe.

There are also old posts with autism-diagnosis foreshadowing:

My life in 1994 part 7

You are So Obsessed! (in which I have an infuriating comments-conversation with a person who has a very negative, disease-model opinion of autism. BUT...I'm kind of grateful for the conversation, because it's sometimes an antidote to my imposter syndrome)

6. This post started off as a blog about my huge special interest which was Australia.

Here are some of my Australia-related posts:

Can Jealousy Ever Be Good?

You are so Obsessed! (An autism-Australia crossover post).

My Secret (Another autism-Australia crossover post)

The Biography Posts (an index)

Our 2009 Australia Trip (Index for my detailed trip report)

Videos of our 2013 trip

Fifty-Five Thousand Hours in Queensland

The Fletcher Foster Kids, Anti-Minecraft, Teasing and Outbursts of Anger

Cleaning out the Backpack

7. These days, I'm mostly writing about the Holocaust and related subjects. I'm actually not sure if it's a special interest or if it's just a way for me to try to understand what's happening in the world today.

Here's an index of that....

Here's the post that inspired that whole project: Gas Prices!

And here's the first post of that (ongoing) project: Learning about the Rise of Nazism in Germany

8. I write a lot about current political things. Some of those posts include:

Just Eat the Peanut Butter Cookie

Trump Supporters

It Is What It Is

I'm Going to try to Stick with My Choir

Wrapping My Mind Around Cultural Appropriation Using Chanukah

Little Moral Debate? Really? Are You Sure?

It is What It Is

Instead of Saying it to You I'll Say it to My Blog