No Missing Pieces is a magazine and media project done totally by a/Autistic people & possibly-autistic neurodivergent people: writing, artwork, video / audio, editing, website tinkering, publishing & distributing.

i’m slowly updating the website to get all the parts of No Missing Pieces Zine #2 on there, with help. for now, only the PDF of NMPZ #2 is up since i haven’t had energy to put a “book” of the individual pages up yet. hopefully i’ll be able to get the short film up on there soon. paper copies will be printed to sell mostly by request.

like NMPZ 1, the PDF is there for free to read and download, and it’s under the same kind of Creative Commons license: share it (for free), always credit the work and the source, don’t sell it.

Jeeeez. Gosh. Jiminy crickets. More than a year since it was started! Wow. I need a cup of tea and a nap.

Once I start printing (maybe tomorrow?), I’ll put a couple pictures up so folks can see what it looks like on the paper.

Here’s the basic zine info for the paper version:

84 pages, printed double-sided (42 pieces of heavyish-weight paper), full-size (8.5x11”), text-heavy, a lot of pictures too (color and black & white), printed in color. Not sure of the binding yet.

All images have descriptions to go with them, and submissions have trigger and/or content warnings where applicable.

All contributors in this zine, including me (editor / contributor / zine elf) and the another person who contributed image descriptions, are A/autistic (self-diagnosed and otherwise), and it’ll be distributed by a zine distro (Feral Is My Heart Zine Distro) run by an Autistic person (me again).

The cost is $5 per copy.

Behemoth Review’s newest issue is live! 

Poetry: Comes Autumn With Her Serenade - Gregory Crosby

Fiction: Shag - Justin Eisenstadt Heracles and the Pig - Carl Fuerst

In other news, the nomination period for this year’s Pushcart Prize are nearing, so we are hoping this next submission period will be our biggest. Spread the word, send us your best work by September 30th, be amazing!

Thank you to our contributors, who have been very kind as to share their work with us! 

Behemoth Review also wishes to thank its readers, and invites you to submit works for our next issue. 

from No Missing Pieces: a magazine by autistic people. issue 1. edited by Jordan G., from Feral Is My Heart Distro.

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Name: RT Age: 23 Location: DC Tumblr: cocksucking-accent

RT is a sometimes-closeted autie with Opinions. He's pro self-dx and stim toys, and against functioning labels and allistics not listening.

  Trigger Warning: mentions ableism

    Music I saw this old teacher today. She doesn’t teach at my high school anymore. She told me she’s at a different school, with “profoundly challenged kids” Profoundly challenged She tells me she loves these kids She tells me she teaches them theater, and she has this animal band with them - they wear masks and play instruments and go to other classes and sing happy birthday and things Not that they can play, she says. They “don’t have the capacity to learn” But they have fun in their masks as they bang those useless bits of metal and wood that other, better kids would turn into music. I last played with a xylophone 10 years ago if not more But when I played with them, I wouldn’t try to make music I would hold the mallet on the center of the xylophone, and rotate it back and forth The goal of this exercise was to make it hit every note, and make a pattern sound, without me hitting every single key on my own It was challenging because if I moved it too fast or too slow or at an angle, the mallet would soar in the air and skip over a key It was a puzzle. This was how I played percussion instruments When I had to learn to play the recorder in school, I learned the songs they told me to But when I was at home, I didn’t play the songs I would blow harder and softer, trying to figure out where the exact point was where the notes broke into noise I would take the little tab out of the mouthpiece and try to make notes come out without that crucial piece - wondered what the purpose of that millimeter-thick piece of lined plastic could possibly be I would wonder how many sounds I could really bring out of that instrument that seemed to have just the 8 - with a couple of sharps and flats to slightly bring that number up But if anyone had heard me, they wouldn’t have thought it was music They would’ve thought I didn’t have the “capacity to learn.” These teachers, therapists, helpers. They aren’t helping us. They aren’t listening. They already have this narrative in their heads, and take everything we do as confirmation. I don’t think these “profoundly challenged kids” of hers can’t learn I think they are learning And they are making their own music Because the sounds that are pleasant to us sometimes aren’t to them And the sounds that are pleasant to them sometimes aren’t to us. I like to sleep with white noise on. It’s what I put on when I need to concentrate or want to calm down Pink noise with oscillating volume can relax me like no music can But not everyone likes noise. They call it “static.” They call it “noise.” And they say I just “don’t have the capacity to learn.”

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sneak peak number 2 of No Missing Pieces: a magazine by autistic people. issue #1. edited by Jordan G., from Feral Is My Heart Distro.

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Image: Captioned YouTube video from Ask An Autistic titled “What Shouldn’t You Say To An Autistic Person?” featuring a young white person with short, light brown hair wearing a dark brown shirt sitting in front of the corners of two bookcases and facing the camera.

Name: Amythest Schaber

Age: 23

Location: Surrey, BC

Hobbies/Interests: Reading, comic books and graphic novels, urban fantasy, superheroes, herbalism, modern and historical folklore, painting, drawing, and doodling all day long.

About me: I'm a writer, artist, public speaker, and advocate. I am a proud part of the worldwide Autistic community, actively blogging, making videos, and generally getting into all sorts of trouble. I blog about autism and disability at neurowonderful.tumblr.com

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 - The 1975

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