FAQ about me, in honor of launching online Q&A series

I’m getting ready to start hosting an online Q&A on Instagram (@abh_listens) and Facebook (ABH Listens). So I thought it might be helpful to share a little bit about me.

🙃 always had the sense that I wasn’t “normal”

📚I got to college and began strategizing how much I could study, learn and practice being “regular”

👩🏻‍⚕️I put myself in therapy for a lot of things, like learning how to engage in small talk, how to date, how to be a good friend, how to ask people questions about themselves

🙇🏻‍♀️ While most folks in their 20s were out at restaurants with friends, I was at home, scanning online dating profiles, reading books and trying to work through panic and anxiety attacks

☦️ I was immersed in fundamental Christian theology until the age of 19 and have spent 16+ years grieving, healing and coming into my own sense of self

💬 I spend most of my time thinking about how people are feeling, how they're making sense of the world and I'm always wondering if there's something I could say or do to make their life even a little bit better

👯‍♀️ My friends know I'm reliable, honest to a fault and only share from what I know and have experienced—not what someone else has told me to be true.

🙋🏻‍♀️ I'm an Autistic woman who was diagnosed later in life, and I've got the scars to prove it. I think I'll always be "finding my way" through this world

🎁 Answering your questions is as much a gift for me as I hope it will be for you—because you're giving me the chance to see the world from someone else's perspective.

🏔 These days I live in the mountains of Colorado with my husband and our three pups. I spend my days writing, taking care of our home, cooking, and in early 2021 I started hosting an online open mic for writers called The Listening Room.

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I'm publishing a Q&A every week, so please don't hesitate to send me a question on my site, and I'll do my best to listen and answer in a future post.