Melinda Green

Every situation, social or solitary, takes mental energy from me. I need human connection and friendship, but the capacity of my brain limits the types and amounts of interactions that I can handle before overloads takes over and my brain shuts down. The amount of sensory input from different things

As an Autistic person, modern society was not created with me, or people like me in mind. Therefore, it takes a lot of extra mental and physical work for me to live and just exist in this modern world, much more than the ordinary person. Since hitting autistic burnout, I

It is a fairly known fact that autistic people are more honest on average than most neurotypical people, sometimes described as honest to a fault. This has a lot to do with how much is already going on in our brains and that coming up with a lie and making

In this post I am going to compare my life and how I feel in different situations to a boat and how it handles different situations. The phrase that keeps coming to mind when I think of this is from Ephesians 4:14 "tossed about by every wind of

There are lots of differences between autistic boys and girls, besides the basic differences between boys and girls in general. Girls are more likely to work harder at a young age to fit in socially, even tho our brains aren't wired for natural socialization, while boys don'

When most people think of a high maintenance girl, they think of someone who spends a lot of time and money on their looks, style and fashion. They have a reputation that some people think is attractive, but others try to avoid. Aspie girls are high maintenance, but not in

With autism, and especially since going thru psychological trauma and having PTSD, there are limits as to how much my brain can handle. Even some things that I enjoy doing have to have a limit, or my brain will not be able to function properly. When severe overload happens and

There are times when my brain feels like an overloaded computer that can't take in and process information quickly enough and I end up in a mental fog or daze for a while, trying to figure out what to do next. This can often happen in public places,

One of the main characteristics of an autistic person is struggling socially. This means that we don't catch social cues as well and we don't understand all of the unwritten social rules. One thing that I can compare it to is driving. There are rules of

Lately, I have been hearing lots of Bible lessons and devotionals on Biblical communication. As an autistic person I have always struggled with communication, so I decided to try and use these lessons to better understand what other people around me perceived communication to be and maybe I could learn