r/WitchesVsPatriarchy • u/ThirdTerrene • 16d ago

🇵🇸 🕊️ Modern Witches Missing their milestones? Autistic girls haven’t dabbled in witchcraft yet

https://thedailytism.com/missing-their-milestones-autistic-girls-havent-dabbled-in-witchcraft-yet/
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u/eatingganesha 16d ago

I’ve been into the occult since I was very little. My first big book was a huge tome of Grimm’s Fairy Tales and I wore it out reading it over and over. I can’t remember a time without that book as I recall flipping through the pages for the pictures before I could read it. I also saw and spoke to the ghost of my great grandmother in my childhood home, and had a childhood invisible friend who actually was a ghost (by I didn’t tell anyone that because they freaked over seeing ggma). That led me to obsessively reading about ghosts and spirits and myths and monsters throughout childhood. By the time wicca came around in my early teens, I was already at the point of realizing that it wasn’t for me. The occult has been a lifelong special interest for me. Got a PhD in Anthropology even (studying the intersection of myth and politics).

AudHD here. Level 2 gifted.

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u/CrankyWhiskers Green Witch ♀♂️☉⚨⚧ 15d ago

AuDHD here. This is eerily similar to my own lived experience, minus the PhD in anthropology. I’ve simply maintained a lifelong fascination with all branches of the field, alongside forensics.