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Essays

A collection of writing on a wide range of topics across all aspects of Neurodivergent life.
I’ve come a long way, done a lot of therapy and healed a lot of my damage. I’ve taken internal notes on the process, and nothing gives my life more meaning than sharing what I’ve learned with other people who need to hear it. These essays are my attempt to catalog and capture my thoughts in a single place on a wide range of topics under the Neurodiversity umbrella.
Note most essays have comments enabled, with the option to submit a star rating based on how much you liked that essay. I’d like to ask folks to submit star ratings even if they don’t have any additional feedback to share — it helps me calibrate, understand where my work needs improvement and will help me automatically generate a list of “top content”.
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Note that I pay on a sliding scale - I will pay a minimum of $50 for any guest essay I publish, and I’ll go up to $100 or $200 based on author need as self-reported.
Essays
Category
Essay
Created on
Title
Advice
10
12/19/2021, 3:23 PM
How To Talk About Autism Respectfully
3/23/2022, 1:59 PM
Creating an Autistic-Friendly Workplace
11/11/2021, 9:42 AM
On Emotional Processing
11/13/2021, 11:23 AM
Neurodiversity and Trauma
11/26/2021, 10:12 AM
Unmasking
4/23/2022, 12:23 PM
On Disclosing Autism
4/26/2022, 8:40 AM
Humanizing the DSM’s Definition of Autism
5/3/2022, 10:22 AM
Managing Disabled Reports
7/13/2022, 9:26 AM
So Someone Said You Might Be Autistic
7/15/2022, 7:45 AM
Please Stop Apologizing for Begging for your Life
Musings
3
11/25/2021, 2:26 PM
Neurodiversity and the Occult
11/30/2021, 4:31 PM
Unnamed Constellations: Neurotypes, Traits and the Future of Neurodiversity
12/2/2021, 9:27 AM
Data, Information and Meaning
Concepts
8
11/11/2021, 9:42 AM
On Masking
11/11/2021, 9:42 AM
On Burnout
11/11/2021, 9:43 AM
On Shame
11/11/2021, 10:40 AM
On Trauma
11/11/2021, 10:06 PM
On Bullying
11/15/2021, 11:58 AM
On Autistic Cognition
11/24/2021, 9:57 AM
On Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
11/11/2021, 1:57 PM
What Is Neurodiversity?
Guest
9
11/25/2021, 1:14 PM
Two Decades with Bipolar Mania and Psychosis
12/5/2021, 10:33 AM
Because There's More Than Just Motivation
12/8/2021, 10:36 AM
Neurodivergence As Queerness
3/10/2022, 12:45 PM
The Undiagnosed Autistic Somali Experience
3/10/2022, 12:53 PM
Blackness when Viewed Upside Down
3/11/2022, 10:57 AM
On Autistic Self-Diagnosis
3/23/2022, 12:25 PM
Neurodiversity and Secondary Disabilities
4/23/2022, 12:22 PM
Making Difficult Conversations More Accessible - Autism Edition
9/13/2022, 5:06 AM
Monster in the Mirror: Living with Narcissism

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