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Kaija Rayne is an autistic creative. They’re one of those people who exude creativity in their breath and bleed it onto the page. They’re a writer, photographer, digital graphic artist, hand-spinner (yes, with a spinning wheel), jewellery crafter and so much more. They even had to blog about stuff they do, and that’s here… On Creativity. They’re a disabled (Fibromyalgia, EDS, POTS, MCAS, Mentally ill), autistic creative, and it’s almost impossible for someone like them to make a living at doing something they love, so they need help to do that. They need to reach a living wage (somewhere between 1600 and 2000 dollars a month, minimum). If they can’t reach that living wage doing what they’re doing, they’ll have to go back to work at a place out of the house. If they do that, because they’re disabled and autistic, there won’t be enough left of them at the end of the day to do any writing, advocacy or support for the things they’re passionate about. The things that they feel really matter. Their value lies more in their creativity and passion for helping autistic people and parents who really want to help their autistic kids than in being a phone monkey for a fortune 500 company. Which is what they’ll be forced to do, if they go back to work out of the house.

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