My Experience with Autistic Womanhood

By Keisha Hubbard

This piece is personal like most of my work is, it was written after a bad social interaction that left me wanting to be ‘neurotypical’. I have always craved for normality and craved a normal experience of girlhood and womanhood, but I have recently come into realisation that I can no longer reject and feel a hatred for my brain for functioning in a way that is always has done. I have started to analyse my frustrations realising that I no longer want to ‘mask’ and put on a face, but I still become conflicted by the actions and reactions of others. 

20-year-old writer currently second year at goldsmiths studying media and Commnications, specialising in creative writing. Keisha enjoys prose writing and poetry and finds both reading and writing it deeply healing. Inspired by poetic cinema and literature from artists such as Shunji Iwai, Mati Diop, Haruki Murakami and Mieko Kawakami. Instagram is @keihubbardd. 

Edited by Louis Chapman