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Jason Jackson, author

Jason Jackson · Author

My story

I was never broken.
Just wired differently.

I’m Jason — autistic, bipolar, and the author of My Life Inspiring Journal. This is how a kid who struggled with grammar grew up to write a book that helps strangers feel less alone. Four short chapters.

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Where it started

A letter from camp

I started writing when I was about eight or nine — a letter to my Dad from Swiss Croft Camp in Wisconsin, on special paper with extra-thick spaced lines. He hung it on the wall of the room where he grew up. He was that proud.

I never set out to be an author. Grammar, syntax, punctuation — all of it takes enormous effort for me, and I’ve always struggled there. What I had instead were journals: years of entries from when my Dad was alive, teaching me how to live. One day I simply decided to gather them up and shape them into something others could hold.

Naming the wiring

Abilities over limitations

I am autistic and bipolar — though not necessarily all at the same time. I’ve spent years trying to tease out which traits belong to which, and honestly, they weave together into one stream of consciousness: me, in my head and not quite in my head.

What I’ve learned is to emphasize my abilities over my limitations — and to take comfort in this: everyone struggles with something. One in 44 kids has autism. Twenty million people parent an autistic child. And 4.4% of us live with bipolar. My book refuses to let any of us be defined by a diagnosis.

Ramsey & Dad

Two voices, one thread

In the book you’ll meet Ramsey — a fictitious character modeled after me — and you’ll sit in on conversations with my Dad from when he was alive. I wrapped my two disabilities into a single thread: a real, touching account of stumbling toward adulthood.

It took three months to assemble, with Daniel Akpojiyovwi in Nigeria and Pamela Greer in Idaho helping turn longhand journals into a finished book. I’m grateful to them for making it real.

My Life Inspiring Journal book mockup

Today & next

The story continues

My Life Inspiring Journal is written for teens, young adults — really anyone willing to see the world through autistic eyes. Readers tell me they finish it feeling like they’ve lost a dear friend. And I’m already deep into book two: the inner thoughts, the mental weather other people carry around.

If any part of my story feels like yours, stay. Read a review, hear the interview, or help keep this work free for the next family that needs it.

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“My Life Inspiring Journal” is an instructive memoir for teens and young adults — an easy-to-understand window into challenges, triumphs, and the inner life of autistic people, written to spark empathy in young minds.

Five star review