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I’ve had a short work of nonfiction published in Wordgathering’s June 2020 edition!

Squee! To be perfectly honest, I am so shy and insecure about my nonfiction pieces. It's much easier for me to relay my truths through quirky aliens who eat cake and have space adventures. But a while back I wrote a piece about how I experience hearing. A true account of my relationship with sounds …

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Cait Gordon

Masking: The Fine Art of Faking Being Neurotypical

I’m autistic. You don’t know how freeing it is to write that. Every single time I do, I feel like a little more of that burden I’ve been carrying for decades is being lifted off my shoulders. I’m one of those cases (as happens to many autistic cisgender women) where I only discovered this last …

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