Chemistry and Other Sad Boy Stuff

Chemistry and Other Sad Boy Stuff is a short-form poetry and sketches collection that I hope distills and universalizes what I've learned, during the course of collecting, is my high-masking depressive autistic experience. It would mean everything to me for you to even pick it up, and even more if just one word on one page somehow resonates with you. In that way, the theme of the audiobook turns from isolation to connection, to a reminder that you only have to be as alone as serves you. Even if it's impossible for me to be more literally there for you, maybe this audiobook can be an extension of me, in that way and others, that outreaches and outlives me. That and you are my hope.

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