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FLOE: Freedom through Leadership, Organization, and Engagement. This is my neurodivergent journey, my heart poured out into stories, essays, and poetry.

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No, We're Not All a Little Autistic
It’s easy to understand why people think I’m normal. And before you insert some unhelpful quip like “normal’s just a setting on a washing machine” or “we’re all a little autistic” don’t. This is the whole point—you think I’m like you but I’m not; can you accept that so we can turn this into a constructive monologue please?
By Find FLOEabout a year ago in Chapters
The Steps Before Defying Gravity
One expects finding flow to be difficult under stressful circumstances. If I had a nickel for every time someone has said “moving is always stressful” I’d have been able to outsource all this decluttering and packing and have some to spare.
By Find FLOEabout a year ago in Chapters
3 Ways to Find FLOE
Freedom. Leadership. Organization. Engagement. FLOE. These kind of things can feel so out of reach on the other side of a life-altering event. The world has been turned upside-down. All the pieces of learning and experience dumped on the floor, waiting to be put in some semblance of order again, but mixed in with new, complicated pieces. How to put the puzzle back in order?
By Find FLOEabout a year ago in Writers
Rewoven and Redeemed
“6 pillow choices.” For some reason, that line caught my eye as I was scrolling social media winding down the workday one Friday in September so I tapped *See more…* The story was from a woman whose writing I’d been reading for a decade and a half, and this is part of the story she wrote this time:
By Find FLOE3 years ago in Motivation
Always a King or Queen
Inspired by the lyrics of “Narnia,” an original song by The Swingles Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy. Kings and Queens of Narnia, but children first. Children whose dreams were at risk of being strangled by fear and responsibility and growing up, until they fell through the back of a wardrobe and found their true calling.
By Find FLOE3 years ago in Humans
Wishing Wealth
Blue sky reflected Penny dropped, falling, no splash Accounts are frozen
By Find FLOE3 years ago in Poets
Nature’s Cue
cold sky bright with dawn climbing, greedy for each inch darkness turns to light
By Find FLOE3 years ago in Poets
Smoke Like Glue
words freeze like spring mist forgotten cigarette loose she shows me blue lines Image by tonodiaz on Freepik
By Find FLOE3 years ago in Poets
Once in a Blue Moon
Under cold full moon Bright blue dreams glow in the dark Once impossible
By Find FLOE3 years ago in Poets
These Old Bones
"We drove up the snowy, winding road towards the cozy A-frame cabin—“ “Aw Gramps, we’ve heard that story a million times. I’m still bored.” The blankets on the top bunk rumpled with his discontent.
By Find FLOE3 years ago in Fiction
Don’t “Eat That Frog” if You’re an Entrepreneur
“Eat That Frog” is terrible advice for entrepreneurs. Almost as bad is the advice to ask yourself, “do I have the freedom to _____________?’”
By Find FLOE3 years ago in Motivation
The Silencer
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. It’s a factoid nobody cares about anymore. Once we went to space everyone stopped listening to all the screaming happening around them.
By Find FLOE3 years ago in Fiction

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No, We're Not All a Little Autistic

The Steps Before Defying Gravity

3 Ways to Find FLOE

Rewoven and Redeemed

Always a King or Queen

Wishing Wealth

Nature’s Cue

Smoke Like Glue

Once in a Blue Moon

These Old Bones

Don’t “Eat That Frog” if You’re an Entrepreneur

The Silencer

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