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Prison Blog

In which Possum recounts his experiences as an offender in the system.

Possum Bones is autistic. He has identified as a dirty kid in the past, and he’s attended multiple rainbow gatherings. He has several years left to serve in the Washington Correctional system.

He has been making art since he could sit up. He communicates better in writing than speech. If you are interested in the experience of an autistic person doing prison time, check out his Prison Blog. If you are a fan of comic art, underground/outsider music, Lovecraft, Clarke Ashton Smith, Murakami, Cixui Liu, etc.

8/11/2018

Insomnia Thoughts

Maybe the root cause of my insomnia is a profound need to be alone in the dark for hours every day. I’m neither an introvert nor an extrovert. There’s a problem with this in that I have the needs of both. Meeting these requirements and still being productive at a level that is up to my own standards is hard. Maybe if I force myself to spend more time alone in the evening then I can go to bed. early without racing thoughts. I estimate I need about 4 hours of this time alone each day. It might be ok for me to draw on exercise inside that block of time. But besides those two, anything I do has to fall under the category of ‘meditative’…Otherwise I’ll only end up shirking whatever responsibilities lie in the way…This is in some hard to explain or understand way a vital neural recharge and I posit that it is caused by my autism. But because I’m not so introverted as some autistic people, its take me a while to understand that I need that time and I’ll make whatever sacrifices I have to for it, because…well, I suppose my brain is like a weak computer that’s been overclocked beyond its capacity. Without time to cool down, it’ll automatically force shutdown to avoid melting its circuits.

Elisa Carlson