I’ll be fine, then out of nowhere my brain replays something that happened; a comment, a tone, a look. I didn’t even realize it bothered me at the time, but hours or days later it hits hard. I’m autistic, and anger doesn’t always show up in the moment for me. It shows up later, when my brain starts analyzing every detail. What they meant. What I missed. What I should’ve said. The more I replay it, the angrier I get. People say “just let it go,” but that doesn’t work when your brain is wired to l

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At the start of the year, I made a quiet promise to myself: I was going to eat more vegetables. Not a dramatic reset. Not a strict diet. Just… more veggies than last year. Cooking already takes a lot of energy for me, so I knew this had to work on low-effort days too. I didn’t want to change what I eat, I just wanted to adjust it. It started small. One night I threw some frozen broccoli into a pot of pasta because it was already in the freezer and I didn’t have to think about it. Another day I r

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I’ve been in relationships where my partner said flirting didn’t mean anything. Just jokes, charm, being friendly. Meanwhile, I was watching the same interactions and feeling confused. To me, flirting feels intentional. Like you’re sending a signal, even if you say you’re not. I don’t flirt when I’m in a relationship. Not because I’m trying to be strict, but because my brain doesn’t separate “harmless” flirting from crossing a line. If I wouldn’t want

Gaming taught me patience and problem-solving. It was an escape when life sucked and a social space when things were good. But balance matters. Too much of anything can become unhealthy.

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I dropped my son off for his first days of school thinking I had my mom game face on. Spoiler: I didn’t. He clung to my hand, eyes wide, taking in the classroom like it was another planet. Other kids were chatting, unpacking, already in the groove. My boy just stood there overstimulated, unsure, trying to figure it out. It broke my heart a little. Not because I doubt him, but because I know the world doesn’t always move at his pace. School is loud, structured, full of social cues he doesn’t natu

This weekend I randomly decided to watch a couple older films from the 40s and 50s. Black-and-white, slower pacing, very simple setups. I wasn’t expecting much. I just wanted background noise. But I ended up actually sitting down and paying attention. What stood out to me wasn’t nostalgia. It was how focused everything felt. The camera didn’t move every two seconds. Scenes were allowed to breathe. When two characters were talking, the movie trusted you to just watch them talk. No dramatic music

Okay y’all, I need to talk about something. My grandparents just hit 40 years of marriage. Forty. Years. And I’m sitting at their kitchen table watching them argue about how to load the dishwasher the same argument they’ve probably had since the 80s and somehow it’s… cute? Not toxic. Not explosive. Just familiar. Meanwhile, I look around at people my age and marriage feels like a high-stakes group project nobody was trained for. We’re juggling student loans, burnout, therapy language, social med

Lately it feels like there’s an AI announcement every single week. One day it’s a new model out of the U.S., the next day it’s China rolling out something faster, cheaper, or more specialised. Everyone’s calling it a race, but I’m not even sure what the finish line is anymore. We've got companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic pushing general-purpose models that can write, code, tutor, and reason. Over in China, companies like Baidu and Alibaba are dropping models that seem hyper-practical o