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Mania, Madness, and Matchbox Twenty
I’m not crazy, I’m just a little unwell I know right now you can’t tell But stay awhile and maybe then you’ll see A different side of me –from “Unwell” by Matchbox Twenty It’s been ten years since I...
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Ella Fitzgerald and the Acoustics of My Autism
Raised the daughter of a classical harpist and opera singer in Prague before her family fled the Nazis, my grandmother adored music, but pretty much the only genre that she and I agreed on is jazz. And...
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A Queer (Be)longing
My favorite emotional quality in music—not so much in life—is, undoubtedly, longing, or desire—to escape, change, love, whatever. Longing in music takes many forms, whether in the sharp whine of a...
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Matthew Perry, Addictions, and Self-Care
Last night I read my humorous true story, “Recovering Music Snob,” also playing a song that inspired it at an open mic in Chicago. I didn’t realize when I decided on reading that piece how much it...
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The Best Advice I Ever Got
When people ask me if I have any advice or experience for young adults, I think about where I was and what I didn’t know at the end of high school. In high school, I was in my own world. I had a very...
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Why Do So Many LGBTQIA+ People Seem to Take Issue With Pride?
This is a series of posts designed to help people approach diversity and inclusion. These are questions and scenarios we’ve actually heard or seen in the wild. This is part of our corporate programming...
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What’s May Got to Do With It?
May is perennially one of the roughest months for my depression. As someone who absorbs dates like a sponge (see my TEDx talk), I often remember some potentially triggering anniversaries. The first and...
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On Acceptance, Resistance, and the Last Word
I often struggle with acceptance, which I’m sure would help solve many problems in my life. Accepting the things that I can’t change can feel like an insurmountable barrier at times. It’s not only mass...
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Once Bullied for My Writing, I Got the Last Laugh
It’s been a wild ride from being bullied for my writing in high school to chairing a high school communications contest as a professional communicator. When I was in high school, I remember feeling...
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Looking for My Patrick? Funny You Should Ask
“You think the TV and music and all that have something to do with why people are confused about love?” “YES!” –From a skit on Lauryn Hill’s album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, 1998 I know I am not...
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I Can’t Help but Wonder Where I’m Bound
On a brisk autumn evening in 2019, I went to a concert of a folk music icon of my father’s generation, Tom Paxton, at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, with my dad. He saw Paxton at a...
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‘We’ll Listen to Music Together Across the Skies’
I wish I could call her every time something great happens: a new job, recognition, any kind of healing. Then again, my grandmother, Anna Nessy Perlberg, was such an integral part of my life for...
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I Never Liked the Rain Until I Walked Through It With . . . Me?
It’s a chilly October night in Chicago, and the rain is coming down hard. Tall puddles span substantial chunks of my street, making it impossible to walk through without my feet getting soaked. The...
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The Hype of Political Correctness—and When It’s Real
I have a conflicted relationship with the concept of political correctness. On one level, I think most of the concepts surrounding the hype are garbage: white people, men, heterosexuals, and other...
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When a #Selfie Means More
Today my life is abundant. I am waiting to hear back about a potential fellowship, a conference, a book project, a storytelling contest, and a communications contest. Whatever happens, I have a lot to...
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My Grief Playlist: What Helps Me Deal With Death
I’m told I’ve dealt with an unusual amount of death in my thirty-two years. I’ve lost many friends, acquaintances, colleagues, family, teachers, mentors, and one ex to death. At times it’s bizarre: my...
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Thank You, Ghosting
Ghosting has become a phenomenon that ceases to be one: it is now so common as to be expected in dating, friendships, and other social realms. And for any number of people, that sucks. Having someone...
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My Name Is Josh and I’m a Recovering Music Snob
Just now I got slightly choked up listening to country superstars Alabama and teen pop boy band *NSYNC’s collaboration on the sappy “God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You.” I even sang along:...
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The Day I Belonged in My Hometown—Years After I Got Out
I’m an autistic, gay, white, and middle-class man, which means that North Shore suburban Chicago, where I grew up, was a site of both incredible privilege (via race, class, and gender, as I wrote about...
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Redefining Creativity as an Autistic Person
In this TEDx talk, Good Men Project contributor and former columnist Josh Friedberg focuses on how creativity as an Autistic person means doing something differently from established norms. He displays...
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