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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.

Writing to keep track of my mind

My disability has basically bound me to write ... Because I was forced to winnow my mental skills into what's useful , I became verbal. And because of the ... executive function impairment its called ... my memory seems objectively better than average but it feels worse. Not being able to trust what I'll remember, not being able to feel the gaps of my functioning and predict it ... Its natural that as a result I'm driven to write my thoughts down constantly all hours of the day. I used to do this only in the form of posts and texts etc ... But since being incarcerated, I use emails and a journal. Anyway. I'm just saying, of course I'd be writing stuff all the time ... because I can never keep track of my own mind as it is.

Elisa Carlson