Category: Life & Home

• April 24, 2025

  Childhood, childhood trauma, defining moments, Disability & Chronic Illness, Family Trauma, Late Diagnosed Autism, Life & Home, Mental Health & Trauma, Personal Reflections, Survival Stories

  I Was Just a Kid…and the Pavement is What Hurt the Most

  I had a little Winnie the Pooh push car — the kind you straddle with your legs, scoot forward using your feet, and steer with handlebars. It was a cheap kind of freedom, that feeling of pushing forward down the sidewalk, pretending it was something bigger than it was. The sidewalk wasn’t in great shape…