Category: Neurodiversity
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The Beautiful Regularity of the Periodic Table of Elements: or, Really no one thought maybe I was autistic? (Or is that even a label I should have known back then?)
No one noticed I was probably autistic even after I memorized the whole Periodic Table in eighth grade (along with the 27 Amendments to the US Constitution). But am I better or worse off for it?
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A Building Analogy for Systemic and Academic Neuro-Equity
A tired analogy about barrier-free accessibility, redeployed to address systemic and modal flexibility.
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Unmasking: Valuing my own Priorities, Heating Edition
More about unmasking, here in terms of whose concerns are given priority, mine over anyone else’s, and the importance of valuing even allegedly ‘minor’ priorities.
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Autism/Allism, ADHD, etc: diagnostic labels are damning.
We need better conceptions for how we think of neuroqueer identities.
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Hyperlexia, or “I was a ‘precocious’ child”
For a while I thought my gift with words and for reading, as well as my obsessive love of books, meant I couldn’t be autistic. lol… Turns out I am actuallyAutistic, but also I’m hyperlexic.
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Actually Autistic Moment of the Day: “of”
One of my earliest memory-fragments, puzzling over the spelling of ‘of’ versus the sound of ‘of’. It makes a lot more sense on this side of realizing I’m actually autistic.
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Neurodiversity Reading List, Pt. II
My neurodiversity reading list grows by the day and three more books have made it onto my shelves before I’ve finished the first set.
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What I’d tell my younger ‘autistic’ self now
Things I’d tell my younger ActuallyAutistic self: basically, they’re right, and the empowerment of acceptance.
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Neurodiversity Reading List, Pt. I
A few books I recently ordered on neurodiversity; stay tuned for a post or two after I tear through them. :D
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Survey: Neurodiversity Initiatives on Campus: preliminary survey on neurodivergent experiences on college campuses.
If you’re neurodivergent and you are in or have been in higher education, please fill out my survey! Help cure my ignorance about other neurodivergent experiences on college campuses!
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You don’t have a “chemical imbalance,” and serotonin is not your problem.
An important new study of decades of research finds that actually serotonin was never the cause of depression. Antidepressants should no longer be prescribed to medically treat depression.
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Autistic Eye Contact: the intensity of a shared gaze
Reflecting on my aversion to casually meeting people’s eyes.
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Paradigm-Shifting Study on Autism: Intense World Theory
Musings on my journey toward realizing that I’m autistic, plus a neurological study I encountered this morning that for the time ever managed to represent my own experience.
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Neuro-Mask Off: Consciously Forgetting How to Mask
On what it means (for me) to stop ‘masking’ as a neurodivergent person.
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 