actuallyautistic – Robert Shepherd: Writer

My life as a body

Cartoon of a blob saying "Being a body is horrible, and yet somehow being a body in a society is even worse."

There was an extent to which being a body implied violence; like if you were going to keep on being a body this was something you’d have to be comfortable with. But then I never was, and still think I am not really, and so now I mostly forget I am a body at all.

One year on: Some thoughts on being part of Stim: An Autistic Anthology

It’s been just over a year since Stim: An Autistic Anthology was published by Unbound Press, so I thought I’d talk a bit about my story in it about selkies and having a terrible time at university.