The thoughts that go through my autistic brain are often too long for Twitter and often far too scattered for proper blog posts. This is my middle-way.

My names's Jemima. Call me Jem.

I have Asperger's and depression and have lived with the former since I was born in 1984 and with the latter since some unspecified time in my pre-teens - probably. Both are as yet untreated, because I've so far met no health care pro, who could grasp that one person can have two interacting diagnoses at once.

I'm a geek. I'm a role-player. Heck, I teach role-playing. Not LARPing - the classic nerdy table top games like D&D and Vampire. I'm a fantasy and sci-fi fan. Especially fond of Star Trek and steampunk.

I'm a gamer, though not the hard-core kind. For me gaming is escapism - not a competition.

I read pretty much anything from the Elder Edda to the biography of Niels Bohr (Danish philosopher and physicist). Heck, I'll read a dictionary if the cover feels nice in my hands. Yes, I am autistic.

I'm an atheist, though I subscribe to quite a few of the ideologies and philosophies of Asatru.

I have a cat names Kaktus (the Danish spelling of - you guessed it - cactus). He's what keeps me sane, when my brain does not co-operate. He is my fylgja.

I hope to eventually study Law or Psychology, because I believe those are good areas where someone with my disabilities can still do good work for a cause I believe in. I may end up in politics, but that will be many years from now in any case. I wouldn't be able to handle the attention as things are now.

I have identified as a cis woman all my life, though I have never felt really comfortable with that. I wish to explore my gender identity, but fiddling with such a big aspect of my life and personality is something I'm not ready to do in my current condition, so I'm keeping a lid on all that for now.

My sexuality is... flexible. I'm not attracted to a set group of genders or gender-presentations, so I don't really know what to call myself in that department. When talking to people who aren't SJ-savvy I usually just say I'm bi.

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