I created this Neurokin project in 2026 due to noticing a serious gap in community spaces/services that accommodate and support disabled people. I have immense love for all humans, especially the most vulnerable of us, so I want to bring a tiny bit of hope and care to my corner of the world.
I grew up in a rural county of the lowcountry of South Carolina as the 8th of 10 children to a very neurodivergent, homeschooler, religious family. Despite many difficulties and with significant strategy skills, I was able to get a Bachelors in English/Creative Writing in 2017 and a Master of Social Work, 2020, both from Winthrop University. I received a holistic education and am especially skilled in all types of writing, succinct communication, empathy, and ethics, but I’ve also learned so much through lived experiences and the intensity of my special interests.
At age 31, I’ve lived a life that I’ve published some stories and poems about and am slowly writing a CNF book about. I have dynamic joy, acceptance of grief and pain, and galaxies of compassion to share. While I am a writer, a support group leader, a social worker, and a mental health therapist and have helped a multitude of wonderful humans through these avenues, I yearn to engage in more collaborative peer projects and to offer accessible peer consultations/conversations that keep me firmly rooted in my Self. I am self-identified autistic (PDA profile and currently low support needs) and self-identified ADHD, leaning toward the hyperactive type. I continue to accept my disabilities (chronic illness, complex trauma responses, and autistic-related) and learn to hold every part of myself with compassion after escaping Christian fundamentalism and surviving life-altering traumas.
I am also queer and nonbinary (they/them pronouns). I am a white-bodied Southerner who grew up on Yamasee and Kusso land and currently reside on Catawba and Sugaree land. I am staunchly abolitionist, community-oriented, disability-inclusive, mad-liberationist, and intersectional, seeing every human as a whole person and seeking to live out my values every day. I actively listen to or am in relationship with people who have lived experience and wisdom related to being neurodivergent (mad, plural, etc.), Black, Latine, Indigenous, spiritual, undocumented, disabled, chronically ill, gender-nonconforming, and much more. I am continually divesting from whiteness, white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism, heterosexism, ableism, and many other violent systems so that I can be an effective co-conspirator within my community.
I enjoy singing, watching the way sunlight hits the trees, loving every cat I meet, cutting and coloring hair, drawing abstract concepts, perusing local art, feeling emotions, binge-watching TV shows like Letterkenny and Dark Winds, observing human interactions, listening to Hozier, baking cheesecakes, reading, researching my special interests, doing yoga, writing poetry, and meeting interesting people.
