Elsa Williams

Keep seeing that AI generated image trend of adults being embraced by their ‘inner child’ selves. And I’m sorry but I don’t believe for one second that our inner children would be anything other than appalled at us

Mine would claim my hair looked like one of her balding barbies before pressing me for a bag of Crunchie Nuggets

Keep seeing that AI generated image trend of adults being embraced by their ‘inner child’ selves. And I’m sorry but I don’t believe for one second that our inner children would be anything other than appalled at us

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

Knickers at half mast today everyone, for Jilly Cooper x

Currently doing social media management for Andrew Hickey’s 500 Songs Podcast.

If you fancy giving the Bluesky and Instagram accounts a follow, that would be amazing.

Bluesky: @500songspodcast.bsky.social
Instagram: www.instagram.com/500songspodc... (@500songspodcast)

Cheers!

Frog was trembling. “I am not afraid!” he shouted.

Maybe I don’t actually want to know the actual song lyrics, maybe the nonsense jumble I’ve interpreted is infinitely more powerful

This jacket makes me feel like a Dad in a Jacqueline Wilson novel about to recklessly abandon his kids for a pint

This is in line with thoughts I’ve been having. Friendship is so elusive. I’m come back a little to reading about autism after getting fed up with thinking about it, and I actually think I’m so autistic. So in myself. My masking was always PITIFUL if present at all. And importantly, thank you Elsa

Thank you, Chloe x

Oof, damn this is real. The experience of the adults around you looking at you like some kind of misshapen garment or crooked plant, not quite sure what to do about it, not quite willing to tell you what's going on. Just a vague sense of doing it wrong and internalizing it your whole life.

"I’d started to have a sense of myself as an uneasy subject that needed to be wrapped in something palatable. I learned sarcasm and witticisms and quips, and about how to be funny when everything else failed."

I've never felt so simultaneously called out and SEEN 😳😭

This is a tremendous piece of writing. Well worth your time.

This is great. I certainly relate to experiencing hostility as a child, not just from other children but from adults. People catch on pretty quickly. I also relate to memorising things.

"I can see why plenty of autistics are drawn to doing stand-up. Somebody I know recently told me they couldn’t imagine subjecting themselves to such a humiliating game of risk, night after night. For autistic people every interaction feels this way, so perhaps for us there’s little difference."
real

Brilliant writing from Elsa - as usual

❤️

‘Real friendships felt mythical to me’: On autism, reading and growing up Some people liken autistic girls to an iceberg. Personally, I prefer the analogy of a rotten log: overturn any one of us and there’ll be…

Article if you want a read (no anal to speak of but you still might like it)

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Bluesky user: I really enjoyed your article but the ellipsis is unfortunate

Me: what do you mean

Hello, darkness, my old friend…we’re revisiting podcast eps again…

Episode 135 looks at “The Sound of Silence” by Simon and Garfunkel, and the many records they made, together and apart, before their success.

Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...

Thanks, Ed!

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Oh Nathan! Thank you x

I wish I had the intelligence and eloquence to express how good and relatable Elsa's writing is, but since I don't I'll just encourage everyone to read it, including my daughter when she's ready.

‘Real friendships felt mythical to me’: On autism, reading and growing up Some people liken autistic girls to an iceberg. Personally, I prefer the analogy of a rotten log: overturn any one of us and there’ll be…

‘Real friendships felt mythical to me’: On autism, reading and growing up

Psychologist: She’s got a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and autism

Me: Or Bortism, for short