Hands Off
Roek didn't come with a plan. Neither did this essay. A video essay about dogs, forests, and what it means to actually see another being. Drawing on Byung-Chul Han and Martin Buber.
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Why I Keep Fighting for my Dogs
This is my story of living with undiagnosed autism and ADHD in a world that overwhelmed and misunderstood me, where my dogs were my source of safety. After profound grief, burnout, and relational trauma pushed me to the edge of collapse and suicidal despair, my dogs were taken from me. Somehow I am seen as the bad guy, but I will not be silenced.
A Kind of Howling - Searching for my dogs
This is the main essay of this page. Diagnosed at forty-one, I learned I wasn’t broken, I was an unfortunate combination of autism and ADHD, a combination not possible before 2013, Audhd still is not an official diagnosis, though. This article is my own search for understanding, but moreover the search for my dogs, I lost in April 2024.