Fresh today · Sunday, 5 July

New Wishes

A handful of wishes pulled from the cabinet this morning. Pick one up — copy, save it to your pinboard, or send it on.

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Wishes in the library
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She wishes you'd believe her when she says the tag hurts, even if you can't feel it.

What she wishes most: a quiet room, a known schedule, and no surprises wrapped in good intentions.

She wishes 'eye contact' weren't the price of being taken seriously.

To have her interests called interests, not obsessions — that's the wish.

She wishes the world would slow down to her tempo for an hour, just to see how kind that feels.

What she wishes: that her honesty be heard as honesty, not as rudeness in disguise.

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She wishes you'd ask how she communicates best, then actually use the answer.

To exist without explanation — she's been wishing for that since she was small.

She wishes meltdowns were met with calm hands and closed doors, not advice.

What every autistic girl wishes: the diagnosis to come earlier, gentler, and without shame attached.

She wishes 'high-functioning' didn't quietly mean 'we'll ignore your struggles.'

To be a girl and autistic and seen as both at once — that's the wish.

She wishes the playground had been a place she understood the rules of.

What she wishes you knew: she's not aloof; she's listening too hard.

She wishes accommodations didn't require a paper trail and an apology.

To be allowed special interests without being asked to outgrow them.

She wishes someone had told her, young, that the way her brain works is allowed.

What every autistic girl wishes: that her sensory needs be taken as seriously as her grades.

She wishes friendship were a thing you could practice without being judged for the practicing.

To wear the same outfit because it's safe, and not be asked why again.

She wishes loud rooms came with warning labels, and small talk came with subtitles.

What she wishes: a single adult who said, early on, 'you are not too much.'

She wishes the silence she chooses were respected as fully as the silence she's pushed into.

To grow up feeling she was right about herself all along — that's the deepest wish.

She wishes the world were a little quieter, a little clearer, and a little kinder by default.