So, who are you and what is this place?
Glad you asked!
Songs for the Unadapted Ones offers writing and tools for living from a very-late diagnosed Autistic writer living with long COVID—designed for those of us inhabiting bodyminds outside the norm—voluntarily or involuntarily. For more about this space, the inaugural post is a great place to start.
All of you is welcome here.
For more about me and links to more publications, podcasts and presentations, you can visit TheUnadaptedOnes.com.
In brief, I am an award-winning writer/director, whose writing has been produced and published internationally; my first book, a hybrid collection, THE MORTALITY SHOT is out with Liquid Cat Books; recent publications in Autism in Adulthood, Oldster, Prairie Schooner, [PANK], Heavy Feather Review. I foundedApocryphal Theatre when in London (2003-11), which work was the basis of my fully-funded PhD from University of Northampton (2009); all my experimental stage texts were streamed in 2022, commissioned by Radio Art Zone in Europe. After burning out yet again in 2011, I began focusing on writing prose and eventually leading writing retreats in Scotland. I live back in NYC with my husband and cat where I am writing a researched memoir about reframing my life after being diagnosed Autistic at 57 in 2021 while recovering from long-haul COVID, weaving in the history of the mis/treatments and mis/conceptions of autism.
I will post future works in future Substack.
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