Songs for The Unadapted Ones

Songs for the Unadapted Ones offers writing and tools for living from a very-late diagnosed Autistic writer living with long COVID—designed for those of us inhabiting bodyminds outside the norm—voluntarily or involuntarily. All of you is welcome here.

By Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

All of You is Welcome Here

You are invited to take off your mask, kick up your feet or rock side to side—the water's fine.

Aug 6, 2025•Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

Nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to be

notes on identity, striving, and letting go

May 20•Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

Slowing down to finish

a pacing paradox for anyone who needs it

Apr 14•Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

Maybe what we really need is a Window of Safety

a modest proposal on Weird Pride Day for we who are assaulted daily by the neuronormative world as we attempt to navigate it (and for allies who want to…

Mar 4•Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

A midwinter pause

a permission slip for deep rest and inner journeys: mine and yours

Dec 29, 2025•Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

The Revolutionary Nature of Crip Time

wherein our heroine begins to embrace her bodymind's actual needs in time and space and finds grace and freedom therein

Dec 16, 2025•Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

Extended Holiday Sale to 12/26...

would love to have you in the community!

Dec 9, 2025•Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

The November of it All

on the exquisite heartbreaking beauty of loss in the cycles of life in forests and other sentient beings

Dec 2, 2025•Julia Lee Barclay-Morton