So maybe I am a frustrated artist seething at taller poppies, but I'm also a heartbroken human who feels lonelier every time I see another example of how the only thing I've ever been good at still isn't what other people want from me. That it's only embraced when people who aren't like me create fake mes and share them with each other. That it was never a bridge at all, but another way for them to close ranks.
Many of the effective treatment plans that do assist Autistic adults involve making sure our health care, housing, and other material needs are also being met, in addition to ensuring we are plugged into a network of supportive people.
Autistic people often communicate a bit differently from non-autistic people. We might be direct and say what we think, and some people think that is being rude (it's not, it's just different communication). Or we might share similar stories about ourselves when a friend tells us about something - that's our way of saying, 'I understand how you feel'. But some people think that's us making everything about ourselves (it's not, it's just a different way of sharing feelings).
"What do you feel if I surprise you with a new gray sweater? And God help me if it's not gray." "It makes me feel overwhelmed," I say. Tim looks at me and says nothing. I think he wants more from my answer. "I think it's because I haven't had time to accommodate the idea of this particular sweater into my life. It's different when I buy it myself because in the shop, I will have considered how it will fit with my other gray sweaters."
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## Art
- [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing
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- [Julian of Norwich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich): author of *Revelations of Divine Love*, the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman
- [Lucy Terry Prince](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Terry): author of *Bars Fight*, the oldest known work of literature by an African American
- [Lotte Reiniger](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Reiniger): director/writer of the oldest surviving animated feature film, [_The Adventures of Prince Achmed_](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Prince_Achmed)
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- [Mary Shelley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley): novelist and pioneer of the science fiction genre of books
- [Murasaki Shikibu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu): wrote the first novel, *The Tale of Genji*
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- [Martha Gellhorn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn): journalist and WWII war correspondent; pretended to be a nurse to be the only woman at Normandy on D-Day
- [Helen Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lewis_(journalist)): journalist and namesake of "Lewis' Law": "the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism"
- [Elizabeth Magie](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Maggie): created the progenitor to the *Monopoly* board game
+- [Milunka Savić](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milunka_Savi%C4%87): most-decorated female combatant in the known history of warfare
- [Rose Valland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Valland): captain in the French military during WWII; saved thousands of works of art from being stolen by the Nazis
- [Madam C. J. Walker](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker?lang=en): entrepreneur and first female self-made millionaire in the USA