Cynthia 2.0
I’ve been dark for a while, like nearly two months…last time I wrote it was Frank’s birthday, just a year after he passed. I made it...
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I write from the heart, full of love and grit. Here I write about my life and passions: grief, parenting and neurodiversity
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Cynthia Coupe
- Jan 13
- 5 min
Mission Control
I have a pen pal. He saw one of my presentations last year, and we’ve kept in touch. Our random email connection is like a light in the...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Jan 6
- 4 min
Ground Zero
I was driving home the other day and this song came on the radio “All of Me“ by John Legend. I started bawling. I don’t know if I...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Dec 30, 2022
- 7 min
2022: Year of Yes
In my last post I said I wasn’t going to even try to recap this year…and that was true, for that post…but this one… I go all out. Once...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Dec 24, 2022
- 6 min
All the Things
My goodness, there are so many things. So. Very. Many. How does one deconstruct this year, in any way that could accurately express it?...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Dec 10, 2022
- 7 min
My COVID Relaunch Party
You know how life is…how it sets you up for exactly what you need, for exactly what you get to look at, and it’ll keep doing this for you...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Nov 26, 2022
- 6 min
RUIN or… R-U IN?
There is so much I’ve wanted to write about…my incredible trip to Oaxaca, the delightful Thanksgiving I just had…yet I haven't written...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Nov 4, 2022
- 5 min
Death and rebirth
There is life after death, I am proof of that. There is love after loss, I am proof of that too. There is hope after despair, joy after...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Oct 28, 2022
- 6 min
Love is in the Air
I wrote this post in a flurry the other week, all ready to put it out there proud as anything and then I got stuck, sidelined and waylaid...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Oct 14, 2022
- 7 min
Raised by Wolves
Truth be told, I wasn't really prepared for this weeks blog, so I read over some old writing of mine and found this. I think it's...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Oct 7, 2022
- 7 min
9 Months Out and Fall…
We just entered autumn, the equinox only a week or so behind us. October 7th marks 9 months since Frank died. It’s a Friday, Frank died...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Oct 1, 2022
- 8 min
Freaks and Dragons or Stimming 101
Freaks and Dragons…I mean…let’s tell it like it is. Certainly an autistic person in an intense stim might look like a freak, or be...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Sep 24, 2022
- 5 min
Diversity and Exclusion
Working in the Diversity and Inclusion space to bring Neurodiversity out of the dark and into the light.
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Cynthia Coupe
- Sep 16, 2022
- 8 min
The 5 Neurodivergent Love Languages
here are 5 common ways neurodivergents show their love languages...I guarantee it's not just an internet buzz thing, it's real
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Cynthia Coupe
- Sep 9, 2022
- 5 min
8 Months Out...
8 months since Frank passed, and where am I? Extreme self-care, that's where...and it's working.
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Cynthia Coupe
- Sep 2, 2022
- 6 min
Neurotic ND Part 2: Masking
**Little check-in here: I just want to be CLEAR and let you all know that I do NOT think neurodivergency is neurotic...I am titling...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Aug 26, 2022
- 5 min
Neurotic Neurodivergency Part 1
There’s something here…something I need to describe to you all, a picture of some inner workings that might help to answer the question...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Aug 19, 2022
- 5 min
Hidden Diversity
I was recently hired to moderate a panel this July on the topic "Diversity You Can't See" with the Open Mainframe Project. It was an...
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Cynthia Coupe
- Aug 12, 2022
- 6 min
Powerful Choice
I had this experience recently that forced me to look at myself. At who I be and who I need to be. I had this opportunity to shine like...
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