Just 1 Voice

I want to start this post by saying something that might seem counterproductive coming from a web designer: Don't let big companies fool you into thinking a website automatically costs $5,000. I mean it. I have this on my own website. I will say it to your face in a free consultation without flinching. Because I think the most valuable thing I can do for #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on July 17th, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/07/your-website-does-not-cost-5000-heres-an-honest-breakdown-of-what-websites-actually-cost-and-why/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

I had a very specific idea of what an advocate looked like. Confident. Articulate in the moment — not just in their head on the drive home. Organized. Not visibly afraid. The kind of person who could walk into a room full of people who disagreed with them, say the thing that needed to be said, and hold the floor without their voice shaking.Someone who had, at some point, figured it out. Who had processed enough of the hard stuff to be able to talk about it from a place of solid ground instead of from the middle of the #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/advocacy/i-used-to-think-advocacy-was-for-people-who-had-it-together/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

Need to delete WordPress CRON job in PHP, so do I use wp_unschedule_hook, wp_clear_scheduled_hook, or wp_unschedule_event? Find out here! #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on February 16th, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/02/wp_unschedule_hook-vs-wp_clear_scheduled_hook-vs-wp_unschedule_event/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

I'm going to tell you something that will make this topic make more sense than any legal compliance framing ever has: About 1 in 4 adults in the United States has some kind of disability. Many of those disabilities affect how people interact with the internet. If your website isn't accessible, you are excluding roughly 25% of your potential audience. Not intentionally. Not maliciously. But effectively. That's not a small margin. In what other context #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on July 2nd, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/07/the-quiet-way-your-website-is-excluding-people-why-website-accessibility-is-good-for-business/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

America is turning 250 years old. Two hundred and fifty years of being a country. Two hundred and fifty years of the founding story — the one where a group of people looked at a king, looked at each other, and collectively decided: no. Not here. Not us. Not anymore. It's a good story. I genuinely like parts of it. The audacity of it. The nerve it took to put certain words on paper and then sign your actual name to them. The problem — and there is always a problem when you look at American history honestly — is that the freedom story was never meant for #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/advocacy/no-kings-then-no-kings-now-what-americas-250th-birthday-means-when-youre-the-person-theyre-legislating-against/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

Okay, I'm going to talk to a very specific person right now and that's The Neurodivergent Business Owner's. You're running your own business. You're doing it while also managing a brain that works a little differently from the one most business advice seems to be written for. The executive function challenges are real. The inconsistent energy is real. The "I was on top of everything last week and this week I cannot open my laptop" cycle is real. And somewhere in the #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on June 23rd, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/06/the-neurodivergent-business-owners-guide-to-having-a-website-that-doesnt-exhaust-you-to-maintain/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

I want to preface this by acknowledging the deeply ridiculous nature of what I'm about to say. I am a web developer. Building websites is literally what I do for a living. I have been doing it for over a decade. I have opinions about WordPress plugins the way some people have opinions about sports teams and I once spent an afternoon genuinely excited about a #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on June 12th, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/06/when-to-hire-a-web-designer/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

I want to be careful here, because this could easily turn into a sales pitch, and that's not what this is. The honest truth is that for some people, Wix or Squarespace is the right call. A brand new solo freelancer with tight cash flow and a limited set of needs can get something functional up fast without spending money they don't have, and that's legitimate. But for a lot of small business owners, the math on DIY web building is quietly terrible. It just doesn't look terrible at #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on June 3rd, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/06/no-website-in-2026-heres-exactly-what-youre-losing-without-knowing-it/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

I need you to try something with me for a second. Imagine you're in a restaurant. Decent place. Not too loud. You're having a conversation with someone you like, and the food is good. Normal evening. Now imagine that at the same volume you're speaking to your friend, you can also hear — equally clearly, equally loudly — every conversation at every table within twenty feet. The kitchen. The music overhead. The person three tables over chewing. The hum of the lighting. The specific creak the server's shoes make on the #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/neurodiversity/autism/autism-sensory-processing-explained-sensory-overload-autism-what-sensory-sensitivity-feels-like-autistic-sensory-experience-sensory-processing-disorder-autism-why-autistic-people-cant-ignore-sen/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

We have always praised children who make adults comfortable. The ones who sat still. Who didn't make a fuss. Who said "please" and "thank you" without being reminded. They never caused a scene and were, in the language adults used for children they prefer, good. Good. What a thing to reduce a child to. What an absence of everything that #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/neurodiversity/autism-misconceptions-you-dont-look-autistic-people-pleasing-roots-high-masking-autism-late-autism-diagnosis-adult-autism-and-intelligence-neurodivergent-experience-autism-microaggressions/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

Stop thinking about the autistic person's observable behavior and start thinking about their cognition in this presentation by Oswin Latimer. #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/neurodiversity/understanding-autistic-cognition/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

This presentation featured Tessa Watkins and Liz Peace, LPC, at the 13th annual Disability & Mental Health Summit. This talk was given in person on May 7, 2026, in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/neurodiversity/pathological-demand-avoidance-disability-summit/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

Hear from Kiera Dwyer/Gregory Tino and Brian Foti as they kick off day 2 talking about non-speaking autistic people. #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/neurodiversity/are-nonspeaking-and-not-thinking-synonyms/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

Something shifted in the way people talk about money. It's not new to be broke. Poverty is old. Debt is old. The desperation of watching the gap between what things cost and what you earn continues to widen—that's not new either. But something about the texture of financial stress in 2026 is different. Something about it feels more personal, more relentless, and more invisible than it used to. Let me try to say the thing people aren't quite saying. The math has stopped making sense For a long time, the story #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/justice-reform/financial-stress-2026-disabled-and-broke-student-loan-crisis-2026-disability-and-poverty-neurodivergent-money-struggles-cost-of-being-marginalized-economic-anxiety-2026-working-class-advocacy/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

Playground banners located at the Mt. Lebanon Park, WIlliamsburg Park, and Meadowcroft provide an alternative communication method for kids. #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/parenting/mt-lebanon-playgrounds-get-point-n-play-banners-to-foster-inclusivity/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

People keep asking me when the political climate is going to settle down. As if my existence is a weather pattern. As if what they're describing as a political debate is not, for me and people like me, just... Tuesday. As if being at the intersection of multiple identities that other people argue about—out there in public, in offices, in courts, in legislatures—is something you can take a break from. You can't take a break from being who you are. This is the part of intersectionality that gets lost in the theoretical version. In the academic version, #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/advocacy/intersectional-identity-2026-queer-and-autistic-nonbinary-and-neurodivergent-lgbtq-autistic-experience-living-with-multiple-marginalized-identities-identity-intersection-advocacy-queer-neurodive/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

Self-love? Whoever said nobody can love you until you love yourself was full of shit; we are not unlovable just because we don't love ourselves. #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/neurodiversity/autism-self-love/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive