Category: Uncategorized
-
Sample of my fiction writing, part 2
When I get to Aunt Ruby’s, I take a shower. I spend some time relaxing on my bed. Later on, I say good night to Aunt Ruby, who goes to bed at 8:34pm. I pace around my room a little bit and quietly hum to myself a little bit. I…
-
Sample of my fiction writing, part 1
When Jay gets back on the mound to pitch the bottom of the second, there’s a subtle shift in the crowd’s attention, but I am too caught up in the game to bother looking and seeing what the big deal is. Jay has already thrown a strike before I glance…
-
You might be autistic if…
DISCLAIMER: this list is NOT intended to be a diagnostic tool. I’m not a psychologist and I don’t even know you. The list is meant to enumerate a few amusing examples from my life that made me go “Aha! There’s my autism.” Each item is in some way related to…
-
Musings on the autism-friendliness of Catholicism
In the months leading up to the first COVID lockdown, my current Catholic parish was in the process of setting up perpetual Adoration. I don’t think the building of an Adoration chapel was in the works, but, at the end of mass one Sunday, a sign-up sheet was passed around,…
-
Handling Lack of Family Support
So, I became Catholic without the support of my family – I expected that all along, and yet somehow, it was still hard in its way. But what was even harder was getting diagnosed autistic without their support, especially when it came to my mother. One thing that people need…
-
An Unlooked-for Miracle
Right before the first pandemic lockdown hit, my brother’s daughter Gemma was hospitalized for an eating disorder. I was grieved, worried, hoping and praying that she was going to be all right. It was especially difficult to go through all that on top of the confusion surrounding COVID. But I…
-
A Strange Clashing
My journey to the Catholic faith, as I mentioned at the end of the last post, begins with a seemingly unrelated and minor event that happened during my four years studying at the Mennonite Brethren denomination’s Bible College in Winnipeg. Oddly enough, the thing that set that process in motion…
-
How I Came to the Faith
So, why don’t we start with the basics? How did I come to the Christian faith? I grew up in a Protestant denomination called the Mennonite Brethren, which belongs to the branch of Protestantism known as the evangelical churches. So, I grew up unbaptized but attending Sunday School, Sunday morning…
-
A few words of introduction
My name is Helena Mary Cole. I’m starting this blog because I can’t find much content on the internet for late-diagnosed autistic adults that approaches the topic from a Christian, specifically a Catholic perspective. To be honest, I was hoping to find more Catholic autistic people and maybe we could…
Helena Mary Cole 