A complicated relationship with love
Rachel share why romantic love is not straight forward for her, despite her fascination by the subject of love. Rachel recounts her past experiences with trying to connect with other people in a romantic fashion.
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The Holidays and Collecting Joy
Rachel's Holiday blog focuses on having special interests and gift-giving. She writes about her current special interest in collecting pins and how telling others about it makes it easier for them to select gifts by knowing what she likes.
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Update on my journey to teach abroad and knowing when to quit
Rachel shares the conclusion to her attempt to teach abroad in this blog and what she learned about herself.
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You Will Hurt People (and How to Deal With That)
Rachel writes how a build-up of resentments and misunderstandings led to hurt feelings for both she and her friends. She describes her confusion and her own hurt feelings regarding these interactions.
Read moreThe Balancing Act of Advocacy
One of Rachel's many roles is as an autistic self-advocate. She describes her reactions to a proposed resource page for an website that she was asked to review. She relays how this resource page reminds her of problematic language and concepts where progress is needed across the board for many Autism advocacy organizations.
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Attorney Woo and the Burden of Extraordinary
Rachel explains why she enjoys the current Netflix legal drama, especially its realistic portrayal of Autism.
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Invisible obstacles, the hurdles you never even knew where there.
Rachel explains her reasons and aspirations to live and work in another country. She also shares her experience with the unforeseen obstacles in her way to being hired to teach abroad.
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Welcome to our new blogger, Rachel
Welcome to our new blogger, Rachel! ASDNext is excited to include her insights as a young woman on the Autism Spectrum. In her introductory blog, Rachel writes about her life's successes and challenges, and shares that talking about her experiences as a self-advocate and her vision for the way she thinks things could improve, is a main goal for her as a blogger.
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