Journal
Kimmy’s natural way of processing and communicating is via poetry. Kimmy uses mostly poetry here to honour her neurotype, to meaningfully reflect her lived experience of being autistic and to nurture other autistic women.
In sharing her journal, Kimmy hopes to inspire other autistic women to ‘be you, whenever you can’.
Pick me up
This journal entry references a few lines of one of Andrea Gibson’s poems in relation to the moral and ethical injury Australian OTs have experienced by the actions of the NDIA.
Growing True
This poem offers an neuroaffirming alternative to perceiving ageing as growing up.
Dampening the sound
This poem speaks to heightened auditory awareness and mentions the role of the stapedius muscle in dampening sound
