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Nichelle (Nikki) Hegstrom

Jammy & Complex

I’ve worked in web development & technology for 20+ years; with experience in IT help desk, technical training, and primarily web development, management, and coding.

I’m a “late-DX” autistic+ADHDer with misophonia, and synesthesia. (My synesthesia tends to revolve around sound, though I have some fun things going on with color.)

I’ve always had a thing for huge sunglasses, photography, flâneur-ing, lots of color, and learning languages. My latest obsessions include Swedish (Jag är mig svenska!), graphic design, painting all the rooms in my house green, and Swedish sitcoms. I curse a lot, and I’d really love to get some sleep.

Above all, I’m a catagoraphobe who hates pigeonholes, and I will run the other way if you try to tell me who I am.

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15 Mar

ADHD, Autism, and NeurodiversityWriting

Nikki


today on Instagram…

It’s true, I do have a pathological need for fairness. But in all seriousness, I laughed when I saw this. You’d think these would be, inarguably, positive traits, no? Y

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11 Mar

ADHD, Autism, and NeurodiversityWriting

Nikki


but you don’t think I ‘look autistic,’ right?

Though I’ve talked about this a lot in other places, I haven’t talked much about it yet in a more “public” way—meaning openly identifying myself with my f

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8 Mar

ADHD, Autism, and NeurodiversityWriting

Nikki


how does that make you feel?

I’ve been seeing various types of therapists off and on since I was about 16 years old, as a “failed” “gifted” kid; so from that point onward (longer,

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20 Feb

Design

Nikki


50 is nifty

My husband turned fifty this past week, so I created this silver fox portrait. Since diving in to learn more about Illustrator, I’ve come to love it and prefer using it much

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28 Jan

ArtsyWriting

Nikki


Artsy Fartsy

When I was a kid, I was always drawing or writing. I even begged my mom to take me to school extra early once a week so that I could take an extracurricular art class around 3rd gr

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24 Apr

livingWriting

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Oura Ring: A Roundabout ‘Review’ of Sorts from a Very Atypical Person, Wrapped in a Bunch of Tangents

Hey there! I am still working on the “tips for partners of people with autism” bit (I know, it’s been a while… did you expect anything less? Sidenote: I fou

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11 Jul

Writing

Nikki


Wenn der Hund wacht, mag der Hirte schlafen.

When the dog is awake, the shepherd may sleep. Wow, a lot has happened in the past few months, huh? * Looks around nervously * Yeah. I have a huge list of drafted posts, but it mos

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28 Apr

Life in Quarantine 2020listening / reading / watchingWriting

Nikki


Livin’ La Vida Loca: The Small Screen de Cuarantena

I think I finally convinced Husband to do away with cable television. 99.999 percent of what we’ve watched in the last…oh, what, six or seven years?… has been str

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19 Apr

Life in Quarantine 2020memoir/creative nonfictionWriting

Nikki


ER Visits in the Time of Corona

This is not about a trip to the ER, but it could have been! I’ve been raging against all those “if you don’t come out of quarantine without having cured cancer /

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Jammy & Complex


Drop me a line.

Before COVID, I used to travel.

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Je suis une flâneuse.

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