NEURODIVERGENT NARRATIVES - CHAPTER 7: MORALITY TALES

The Values That Connect Our Community

Aesop’s fables were spoken aloud for centuries before anyone wrote them down, each one passing a moral from one generation to the next so that the lesson would outlive the storyteller. They were never really about foxes or crows or clever tortoises. They were about the values a people wanted to preserve, the wisdom they hoped their children would remember when no one was there to guide them.

This chapter listens for that kind of inheritance within Autistic culture. Friendship has rarely been simple for those of us who were late discovered, yet our ways of caring have always been steady, intuitive, and quietly loyal. These short stories are a map of what matters to us, small enough to remember, strong enough to keep. mind.