DMP/E+/Getty Images You know, sometimes it takes a bit of work to find the joy in your every day (especially lately). And sometimes, it’s hard to share that joy out loud. You feel like you’re tone-deaf, you feel like people will find you cringe, you feel like you’ll be judged for looking for the tiniest...
Alex Wong/Getty Images News/Getty Images As an autistic adult, I’ve watched Robert F. Kennedy Jr. make outrageous claims for years. But this time, this week, it hits closer to home. On Wednesday, Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services painted autism as something devastating to families, a crisis to be solved, a burden to be...
Monty Rakusen/DigitalVision/Getty Images People are all too quick to tell you how hard motherhood is. They tell you you’ll never sleep. That your house will never be clean again. About the Terrible Twos and Threenagers, but also “little kids, little problems; big kids, big problems.” But one thing no one tells you is how overstimulating...
It feels like something we’re born with as women: We play down our success. From the very extreme, like telling our family and friends how shocked we are about receiving a promotion that we know we’ve worked our asses off for, to the very mundane, like responding with, “Oh no, I’m seriously such a mess”...