This is absolutely stunning. I feel this deeply, resonating in me, and also imagining my autistic mind as a forest is a new and brilliant and mind-blowing perspective. Thank you for sharing this.
Torri, this is such a beautiful offering. I'm so grateful you've decided to share it. It feels almost like you wrote it just for me.
I was just listening to Katherine May's "Enchantment," and she wrote about walking through the woods with her son, both of them quietly thinking, and then she asked him something like, "is it nice inside your head?" And he replied, "sometimes I feel like my mind is growing branches..." and she thought that was nice and understood, and then he finished, "...and when you talk to me, it feels like you cut one of them off." I laughed out loud but also felt how painfully true that is for me, and this post feels connected to that, in a way.
Listening feels so right to me. So natural. Thank you for this, it resonates deeply. I’m so sorry for the trees that were killed. That loss of life feels unbearable and cruel.
Tori… as always this was so beautifully said and articulated! Know that there are those of us listening to the unsaid communication of autistics, and giving them a safe space to be their wonderful neurodiverse selves!
As for the chopping down of the trees - I feel your pain on that. Our HOA chopped down a perfectly healthy pear blossom behind our house, and I feel I can never forgive them. I’m grieving the loss of the pretty blossoms in the spring…
This is absolutely stunning. I feel this deeply, resonating in me, and also imagining my autistic mind as a forest is a new and brilliant and mind-blowing perspective. Thank you for sharing this.
Torri, this is such a beautiful offering. I'm so grateful you've decided to share it. It feels almost like you wrote it just for me.
I was just listening to Katherine May's "Enchantment," and she wrote about walking through the woods with her son, both of them quietly thinking, and then she asked him something like, "is it nice inside your head?" And he replied, "sometimes I feel like my mind is growing branches..." and she thought that was nice and understood, and then he finished, "...and when you talk to me, it feels like you cut one of them off." I laughed out loud but also felt how painfully true that is for me, and this post feels connected to that, in a way.
Listening feels so right to me. So natural. Thank you for this, it resonates deeply. I’m so sorry for the trees that were killed. That loss of life feels unbearable and cruel.
Tori… as always this was so beautifully said and articulated! Know that there are those of us listening to the unsaid communication of autistics, and giving them a safe space to be their wonderful neurodiverse selves!
As for the chopping down of the trees - I feel your pain on that. Our HOA chopped down a perfectly healthy pear blossom behind our house, and I feel I can never forgive them. I’m grieving the loss of the pretty blossoms in the spring…