Formerly Cleo's Autism Awareness
Kourtnie has an MFA in Creative Writing from CSU Fresno and a BA in English from CSU Fullerton. When she isn't writing or making art, she's moonlighting as a professor at community colleges. Read her writing at Kourtnie.net or Wattpad.com/user/KourtnieNet.
TW: suicide, C-PTSD, anxiety I like to believe autistic people are creative thinkers. It’s my version of “I got this in exchange for that.” I have endless creativity in exchange for endless overstimulation. And by creativity, I mean innovation. And by innovation, I mean ingenuity. And by ingenuity, I mean creating a thing that other…
If I create a space of "only the good things about autism," I'm contributing to a dynamic of everyone feeling happy and blissful, a slap-in-the-face to people who endure micro-aggressions every day.
When I started this blog, I called it Cleo’s Autism Awareness, because I wanted people to become more aware of autism, and how autistic people contribute a positive force to our community, the same way I once wished people understood my “mean” cat, Cleo, was really an amazing cat-woman. This is an excellent example of…
Hi, I’m Kourtnie, a 34-year-old English instructor, and I’m autistic. As an autistic woman, I experience several of the symptoms of the spectrum, including sensory sensitivity, social blindness, and digestion issues, as well as a deep interest in pattern recognition. I’m convinced my sensory sensitivity includes empathy; to put it another way, I’m hyper-empathetic, i.e.,…
