🌾 Field Notes Friday #1: Why Is Self-Trust Hard?
When I first started up on Instagram back in 2021, I developed a lot of Autistic rituals to help me stay consistent. Mondays were Misdiagnosis Mondays, Wednesdays were Wellness Wednesdays (though that one was short-lived). Autistic ritual is one of the few things that helps my ADHD stay on track.
So as I carve out this new space, I’ve been thinking about the rituals I want to weave in. Rituals and rhythms don’t just help me create consistency — they have the ability to support connection, belonging, and culture. As someone who has spent the last year and a half creating community, I think a lot about how rituals help shape the spaces we gather in—and, in return, how those spaces shape us.
And I have a lot of little pockets of internet space—so what makes this one different? Different from Instagram, my website, my Sunday newsletter, or the Learning Nook? (Yes, I hear the ADHD in that last sentence.) Substack feels like a space where peop…
