Faye Daniels
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Why I’m Changing the Way This Space Works (Already)
🕑 Added 2025-05-11 01:10:37 +0000 UTCAre you ready to laugh at me?
I’m changing things already. LOL. I know. I just launched, and here I am rewriting the structure. But this isn’t coming from flakiness—it’s coming from clarity.
Here’s the truth: I’m still very much in autistic burnout.
Not a cute little “self-care” kind of burnout. The kind that stole my words, my thoughts, my energy, and left me spinning in shutdowns, panic episodes, and brain fog so thick I couldn’t find myself inside it. I’ve been “resting” since December—learning what rest even means in a body like mine—and still, I find myself overdoing it easily and paying the price for days.
So after a rough night of a panic spiral, a nightmare, and a full shutdown, I realized something: I need this space to have fewer rules and no rigid deliverables—at least for now.
This space can’t become another version of the systems that hurt me.
It has to feel like mine.
Like an open studio. A quiet room. A soft place to land.
What’s Changing?
I’m still offering everything I originally planned: the art therapy-inspired shares, reflections, downloads, journal prompts, updates on my healing journey, photography, and process notes.
I’m just not releasing them on a fixed timeline.
This space will unfold like healing does: unevenly, honestly, with deep intention and necessary pauses.
Why That Matters
Right now, I’m doing my best to be gentle with myself. To show grace for my autistic self. To rebuild my relationship with time, with energy, with output. I’m listening to my body. I’m learning how to work with my neurodivergence instead of constantly fighting against it. That means:
Slowness is sacred
Rest is not laziness
Expression doesn’t always arrive on a schedule
And so, I’m letting this Patreon be what it needs to be: fluid, responsive, and real.
What You Can Expect
If you’re here, I trust you understand. And I hope you’re here not just for what I make, but why I make it. Because you see value in the kind of healing that doesn’t always fit into deadlines. Because something in you might be craving that kind of freedom too.
So here’s what you’ll still receive as a patron:
Honest updates when I have something real to share
Private blog posts, art shares, and reflections that you won’t find anywhere else
Occasional downloads, journal prompts, and behind-the-scenes content
A front-row seat to the messy, beautiful process of reworking a life around healing
Thank you for walking beside me—especially in the parts that don’t follow a perfect arc.
This is still my journey. I’m just finally letting it breathe.
Comments
Faye Daniels
Thank you. I sometimes forget how absolutely amazing some of the people who follow me are (obvi you're included in that.)
Faye Daniels
Thank you, I think the pressure to produce and curate and consistently pump out things that others want is still so ingrained in me from OF. I'm still having such a hard time seeing value in myself and my work if I'm not apart of that "grind".
Raymond Pierce
This is your show and the people here support you so you get to make the rules. Use it to do what you need!
Andy walker
Hey, this is your space, you get to decide what you do with it. The people supporting you here are here for you
