Really value this vote of confidence from Emma Goldman-Sherman and her willingness to let me share it. Especially when revising an endless 7 year in the making memoir in progress, it's nice to know my humble little Substack is speaking to folks.
Julia Lee Barclay-Morton
@julialeebarclay.bsky.social
Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation at 57 of being a fashionably late-diagnosed #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com
Here’s my latest from Scotland…home of the thistle and the unicorn…on why crip time is not a privilege but a reality… open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Crip time is not a privilege, it's a reality
"We struggle with dream figures and our blows fall on living faces." Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Some people read craft books when revising their manuscript. Me, I reread for the nth time the introductory chapter about Rhizome in A Thousand Plateaus. "There is no mother tongue, only a power takeover by a dominant language within a political multiplicity."
Because of the weird will to call disabled people who write about what we need to do to care for ourselves privileged...Let me state this as clearly as I can: crip time is not a privilege it's a reality. The only choice is to accept and find ways to embrace that or try to overrule it and get sicker.
Lovely interview with Indie Bookstack for Disability Pride Month that includes sneak peak to opening of my memoir I'm finishing up revisions on right now... substack.com/@hazelallenw...
An Interview with Creative Non-Fiction Writer Julia Lee Barclay-Morton
An award-winning writer and director discusses her work and history as a writer in this incredible author spotlight.
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Because of the weird will to call disabled people who write about what we need to do to care for ourselves privileged...Let me state this as clearly as I can: crip time is not a privilege it's a reality. The only choice is to accept and find ways to embrace that or try to overrule it and get sicker.
"...Even before Long COVID and being diagnosed autistic, I burnt out over and over again. I fancied myself a workaholic and I was, but unlike those people who seem to grind it out 24/7 and never stop, I was always crashing..."
Julia Lee Barclay-Morton@julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 3w agoOn the fine art of giving it 75% ... open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
check it out if like me the word rest seems like a test you will fail...
Julia Lee Barclay-Morton@julialeebarclay.bsky.social · last mo.From my latest on learning to take the win.... "If you woke up today, had a meal, enjoyed the light between the clouds, called a friend or heard from one, snuggled your pet or human, or wrote or created something or had a clarifying thought...take the win.. open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
AI is the devil. If y'all want to leave me behind in your rush to hell, that's cool. I'll hang out with the neolithic stones of Scotland and watch the tides of the Atlantic and the North Sea collide. I have no interest in joining you.
best commentary yet on Maine situation, link to my note introducing @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social substack.com/@julialeebar...
Julia Lee Barclay-Morton (@julialeebarclaymorton)
This is the best take on the State of Maine…I am from Maine. I live in NYC now but my mother and many friends and relatives still live in Maine. Most people don't have a clue about the state that are ...
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Hope everyone's happy now. (shockingly, autistic people do use and understand irony)
"On this Independence Day, when the country to which I was born celebrates the 250th anniversary of its troubled, paradoxical birth, I want to think about the concept of freedom, a word used to mean many things, and what it means here in the US now, and what maybe it could mean…
Julia Lee Barclay-Morton@julialeebarclay.bsky.social · last mo.My latest on Independence from What Exactly...a meditation for today in US and during Disability Pride Month open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
My latest on Independence from What Exactly...a meditation for today in US and during Disability Pride Month open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Independence from What Exactly?
a meditation on what freedom means and for whom during Disability Pride Month
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check it out if like me the word rest seems like a test you will fail...
Julia Lee Barclay-Morton@julialeebarclay.bsky.social · last mo.From my latest on learning to take the win.... "If you woke up today, had a meal, enjoyed the light between the clouds, called a friend or heard from one, snuggled your pet or human, or wrote or created something or had a clarifying thought...take the win.. open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
From my latest on learning to take the win.... "If you woke up today, had a meal, enjoyed the light between the clouds, called a friend or heard from one, snuggled your pet or human, or wrote or created something or had a clarifying thought...take the win.. open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Take the win
learning to take a breath to acknowledge successes no matter how big or small (before nitpicking or minimizing them to insignificance)
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The Knicks victory Also is a victory for Nontoxic masculinity it seems to me. Jalen Brunson and Mike Brown seem to exemplify a kind of calm strength and humility, and that seems to infuse the whole team, which won each game as a team. Not peacocking alpha male BS just eye on the prize get it done.
Bernie Sanders and his progressive allies are on a hot streak. The senator’s support has been instrumental in powering unknown candidates to major wins this cycle, a demonstration of how much political influence the 84-year-old progressive leader still commands.
Bernie Sanders’ candidates just keep winning
The Vermont senator's primary endorsement hot streak continued on Tuesday.
politico.com
If you don't understand why your arty weirdo friend has been transformed by their late autism diagnosis & sees it as a gift, don't take my word for it, watch Room to Move on Netflix. Gorgeous documentary about dancer Jenn Freeman being diagnosed at 33 and the life and work that emerged from this.
If you don't understand why your arty weirdo friend has been transformed by their late autism diagnosis & sees it as a gift, don't take my word for it, watch Room to Move on Netflix. Gorgeous documentary about dancer Jenn Freeman being diagnosed at 33 and the life and work that emerged from this.
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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton@julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 3mo agowas interviewed by slips slips (title inspired by Gertrude Steun) in conjunction with a cut up being published in their broadside. Fun interview and also great publication. Check it out and request a copy. They will send for free... open.substack.com/pub/slipssli...
hey @slipsslips.bsky.social posted this before you got here...welcome!
Julia Lee Barclay-Morton@julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 3mo agowas interviewed by slips slips (title inspired by Gertrude Steun) in conjunction with a cut up being published in their broadside. Fun interview and also great publication. Check it out and request a copy. They will send for free... open.substack.com/pub/slipssli...
Profit for torturing autistic kids. How American. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/h...
Short Naps, Long Hours: How Autism Clinics Squeeze Medicaid Dollars Out of Preschoolers
nytimes.com
My latest on identity and letting go and how autism isn't a label but instead an existential state that challenges all that usually remains unchallenged about so called human nature... open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to be
notes on identity, striving, and letting go
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My latest on identity and letting go and how autism isn't a label but instead an existential state that challenges all that usually remains unchallenged about so called human nature... open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to be
notes on identity, striving, and letting go
open.substack.com
was interviewed by slips slips (title inspired by Gertrude Steun) in conjunction with a cut up being published in their broadside. Fun interview and also great publication. Check it out and request a copy. They will send for free... open.substack.com/pub/slipssli...
Contributor Confab: Julia Lee Barclay-Morton
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May is ME/CFS Awareness Month and since part of my flavor of Long COVID includes that diagnosis, too, I am posting this again both for the information and also for the experience from the inside. open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
The Loneliness of the Long COVID Autist
Wherein our heroine describes 5.5 years of long COVID and how this unadapted body has navigated the so-called health care system and the limits of a party-crashing chronic illness.
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