Tag: acceptance and growth
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I Speak Many Languages. Masking Follows Me in ALL of Them
I’m multilingual. But behind each language was a mask—until I found the one that didn’t come with trauma. Turns out, fluency isn’t freedom. Identity is.
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ASL Journey
I have mentioned I’m working on learning ASL. I thought it might be fun to share how I’m doing with this. There is also the disturbing thing I want to share with you. Did you know 90% of parents who have a deaf child do not bother to learn ASL? Talk about isolating to put…
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When Talking Takes Everything—And Silence Gives it Back
I spent years performing speech that drained me—now I’ve unmasked the truth. Talking isn’t connection for me—it’s exhaustion, confusion, and finally… freedom
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A Childhood of Words, a Lifetime of Silence
For years I thought my constant talking was personality—until I realized it was masking. Now I’m reclaiming silence, expression, and the truth I was never allowed to speak.
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Relearning ASL and Letting My Hands Do the Healing
Sign language returned like a lost part of me—calming, expressive, safe. Now I use my hands to say what my voice learned to suppress.
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Simple Joy and Life
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life. This one is pretty easy for me to describe. It is actually this site. I get to be me without apology and as I learn what masks I’ve worn I get to share that. My site is totally based on what chaos it…
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Acceptance for the First Time
What I look forward to is acceptance because of what it leads to. This is one of my heavier posts, I talk about how lack of acceptance has lead to abuse, mental health problems, people pleasing and the dangers there. I also talk about a group of people have shown me what acceptance really is.
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A Personal Journey: Regulation with Kink
This is to give you my perspective with the things I have learned. I do try to vet things however I am human and make mistakes to. I want to educate and make all parts of life more accepting and I believe that is done through education.
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Why I Wait to Meet: The Neurodivergent Perspective
My way of navigating meeting new people. I am neurodivergent to say the least and that means my approach is different. This is my way and the why of it. This is written in a kink perspective but applies in all areas of meeting new people.
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Firefly The Bug and Show
So, I was watching Firefly yet again and it lead to researching the actual bugs and finding out something rather neat. I did eventually go back to watching the show, don’t worry.
Who am I? 