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🎧 My Ultimate Stimmy Bops 🎧
A personal playlist powered by dopamine and happy flappy vibes Some people have playlists for working out. Some have playlists for breakups. Me? I have stimmy bops — songs that make my brain fizz in the best way possible. The ones I can’t listen to just once. The ones that make me move without even…
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🎬 From Movie Camp to Marriage: My Love Story with Myron
Some stories don’t start with fireworks or grand gestures.Some start with awkward takes, shaky camera shots, and two teenagers bonding over short films at Movie Camp. That’s how it began for me and Myron — in 2010, making hilarious mini-movies and quietly growing close in between scenes. There was something about him — his humour,…
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Dear 18-Year-Old Me: What I Wish I’d Known About Autism, Love, and Life
Hey you, Yeah, you — 18, confused, exhausted, and convinced the best of life has already passed you by. I wish I could sit across from you right now, cuppa in hand, and tell you what I know now. There’s so much I want you to hear — so many lies you’ve been fed about…
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What My Brain Has Decided to Latch Onto (For Now)
One minute I’m chilling, the next I’ve listened to “Video Killed the Radio Star” twelve times in a row and I’m planning a themed blog post around it. Neurospicy life, baby. Welcome to the current state of my brain — a sparkly, chaotic timeline of hyperfixations that hit me out of nowhere and hold me…
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Welcome to Actually Asten!
Sighs The first post is always the hardest… Anyway! I’m Asten (she/her) and this is my little corner of the internet. One of them, anyway — I’ll explain more about that in a moment. I live in the UK, I’m in my thirties (how did that happen?), and I’m autistic. Diagnosed at age four, told…
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