Welcome to my cosy internet corner.

I’m Laura. I live in a loft in England with my love, Lewis.

I’ve preferred being faceless for as long as I can remember, but I haven’t always hidden my identity online.

In fact, I was a face-forward YouTuber from 2011 to 2018.

My videos garnered over 43 million views, my channels hit 169,000 subscribers, and my work was featured by the BBC, MTV, Marie Claire and more.

The whole thing felt like a fluke and it still gives me stage fright!

I never imagined what started as a silly little hobby in my teenage bedroom would blow up the way it did.

Although I didn’t mean for it to happen, I stuck with it until it sank — sort of.

Without warning, both of my YouTube channels were obliterated by the infamous adpocalypse of 2017.

My main source of income was taken from me overnight.

I tried to fight it for a while, but my views tanked and every video I uploaded was instantly demonetised.

Unable to stay afloat, I eventually went down with the ship I’d steered for six years and fell off the face of the internet.

I dropped out of university for the second time that year and became somewhat of a hopeless case.

Aside from cleaning cottages in the summer as a student, YouTube was the only job I’d ever had. It was all I’d known.

Working in my own space at my own pace was perfect because it accommodated my autistic needs.

There’s a reason around 80% of autistic adults in the UK are unemployed.

The thing is, I didn’t actually know about my autism until I was 25.

By then, I’d already hit rock bottom, believing I was incapable of finding employment or living a functional life that felt fulfilling.

Discovering I’m ‘on the spectrum‘ was life-changing, to say the least.

Learning why I am who I am enabled me to be more lenient with myself.

Most autistic adults are unemployed.

Most autistic people who attempt university drop out.

Most of us struggle with daily life, and many of us are disabled — whether we identify with that word or not.

Although some insist ‘disabled’ is a disempowering identity, accepting that I live with a disability has empowered me to embrace the cards I’ve been dealt.

After years of believing I was a broken, lazy quitter who didn’t try hard enough, I realised I was just playing by the wrong rulebook.

Accepting my disability helped me stop idolising career paths that are incompatible with my experience of autism.

Now, I create online income streams from the comfort of home in full awareness of my limitations instead of in spite of them.

If you’d like to do the same, my blog is for you!