Category: Mental Health

• Finding Boundaries

  I took a social media hiatus without ever meaning to, writing ground to a halt, and I limited myself to editing. I had social media content queued in the background, lists of website posts, TikTok videos, and saved tweets. I had books I needed to review, my own work wasn’t getting enough attention, and I…

  E. J. Dawson

  September 24, 2022

  Mental Health

  #anxiety, #authors, #creativity, #mentalhealth, #writers, #writing, #writingcommunity

• Being an Autistic Beta Reader

  

  Being an Autistic Beta Reader – How to take on feedback, and how to give it, and what I bring to your book as someone who is autistic. #AuthorsforMentalHealth #Autistic #Betareader #auction #charity #beyondblue #betareading #writers #authors #Writingcommunity

  E. J. Dawson

  March 26, 2022

  Mental Health

  #auction, #authors, #AuthorsforMentalHealth, #autism, #betareader, #betareading, #charity

• Betaread for #AuthorsforMentalHealth

  Need a Betaread? Check out this auction for a chance at up to 100k of your novel with a complete read through, in text notes, summary and an hour long call!

  E. J. Dawson

  February 23, 2022

  Mental Health

  #auction, #authors, #AuthorsforMentalHealth, #betaread, #betareading, #mentalhealth, #writers, #writingcommunity

• Lockdown Lifted, Mask… Discarded

  When everyone says we’re going to go back to the way things used to be, I’m going to respond with quiet sweetness; no we’re fucking not.

  E. J. Dawson

  January 22, 2022

  Mental Health

  #aspergers, #autistic, #findingyourself, #lockdown, #mask, #mentalhealth, #selfworth

• Dead zone

  I woke up this morning at 6am, got out of bed, and hit the desk with a furor and if you think this is how I normally operate you’d be dead wrong. I’m an out of bed by about 8:30, maybe 9am on a Saturday, because it’s the morning I get to sleep in with…

  E. J. Dawson

  May 7, 2021

  Mental Health

• Hard Lessons Learnt

  Hard Lessons Learnt – Writing your #neurodiverse self is more than what to write, but your #writerslife as an #ND #author

  E. J. Dawson

  March 27, 2021

  Mental Health

  #mentalhealth, #ND, #neurodiverse, #writers, #Writerslife, #writingcommunity

• Neurodiverse editing

  Those not on the social platform Twitter will have missed the enlightening conversations happening around neurodiverse authors and their writing being policed. I say this knowing full well that I myself have struggled with the idea of what it is to be an ND author. That writing our own unique story telling voices are breaking…

  E. J. Dawson

  March 14, 2021

  Mental Health, On Writing

  #amwriting, #aspergers, #autistic, #mentalhealth, #neurodiverse, #writers, #Writerslife, #writingcommunity

• Writing wrong

  Just writing the title of this blog post is sending my skin crawling. It’s a physical effort to type. But I can’t not. I can’t not say something about being neurodiverse now while its fresh, clear and concise in my head, even if this blog post might not be – not if you’re neurotypical. On…

  E. J. Dawson

  March 9, 2021

  Mental Health

  #autistic, #mentalhealth, #ND, #neurodiverse, #writers, #Writerslife, #writing, #writingcommunity

• An Older Autistic

  An Older Autistic – The hurtful way you are receiving an older autistic’s diagnosis #autistic #mentalhealth #older #diagnosis #aspergers

  E. J. Dawson

  January 17, 2021

  Mental Health

  #aspergers, #autistic, #diagnosis, #mentalhealth, #older

• Zero expectations

  Zero Expectations; I’m not making more of 2021, I’m not making plans to do anything that could change, I’m just going to try and do the best I can every single day.

  E. J. Dawson

  December 31, 2020

  #inspiration, Mental Health

  #2021, #boundaries, #NYE, #resolutions