Tag: ActuallyAutistic
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Call for a Neurodiversity Constellation Center at University of Michigan
A call for a Neurodiversity Constellation Center at the University of Michigan based on the results of the survey I conducted on campus last fall.
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Neurodiverse ‘Constellations,’ not a Spectrum
Defining my sense of neurodivergence in terms of constellations rather than a spectrum.
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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.
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 