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How to Design for Cognitive Scarcity
Stop designing for the idealized “Hero User.” Build resilient interfaces that work when your user is stressed, tired, a…
The Death of Slack
It appears we have successfully eliminated the margin for error. That's terrifying.
Governance by Caricature
You Can Design Harm Out
How to design systems that protect human limits and reject harm as the path of least resistance
Variance ≠ Deviance
The Autistic Tendency to Disappear
If You Knew Me Before
Should You Keep Playing Along?
Neurodivergence, Alienation, and the Data Economy
The Masked Psychedelic Experience
Do I Have the Energy to Start Over in Therapy?
Before my autism diagnosis, therapy—as it turned out—was reinforcing my masked self
Neurodiversity Washing
An Insidious Betrayal of Inclusion
Reclaiming Your Right to Pleasure
I can tell you're masking from your Substack
What happens when you stop writing for approval?
How To Be Yourself Online
Might as well, you'll be here a while
The Hidden Harm in Self-Help
How Traditional Frameworks Fail Neurodivergent Individuals
What is Autistic Hazing?
Internalized Oppression, Dangerous Ideologies, and Parent-Child Relationships
Who I Write For and Why I Write
and a little bit about how I do it, too
The Thermodynamics of Power, Meaning, and Masks
Burnout as a Non-Metaphor and Unmasking as a Revolutionary Act in Neurodivergent Experience
US Bill of Rights, Autistic Translation
The first ten amendments, but written with clearer guardrails based on current application.
I Saw the TV Beau
Navigating Identity, Trauma, and Self-Compassion in Surreal Worlds
Writing for People Born Without Autism
Blending Seriousness with Wit for the Neurotypical Mind
Autistic Flourishing and Autistic Futurism
A better world for the neurodivergent is a better world for everyone.
Neurodiverse Justice can be Reparative and Remunerative
It's not about dimmer light fixtures in prison cells, but a hell of a lot more
Embracing the Diversity of Allistic Experiences in an Autistic-Normative World
Let's take a closer look at non-autistic people
A letter to my younger self
or maybe to you, at some point in time
Interiority Theater and Cognitive Self-Annihilation
What does it mean if we're experiencing the effects of neuroplasticity in the constant presence of a hyperreal self?
Masked Justice: Reimagining Legal Systems for Universal Accommodation
legal systems should assume everyone involved could potentially be autistic and be unaware of if
An Autistic's Guide to Vaping Less
the reasons you vape might be different from the reasons your friends do
Autism, Careerism, and Cultural Pressures as a Jain Indian American
Internalized ableism and its ties to South Asian American mental health awareness
Who Was I That Whole Time?
Autism, Clubbing, and Unseen Joys in the Tyranny of Unwritten Rules
Introduction to Normative Medical Inversion
connecting Deaf Gain, the neurodiversity movement, and queer critical theory
Routes and patterns
Reading paths
Concept maps
Where the same pressure keeps reappearing
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Question-led archive pages
Focused pages that stay close to specific recurring pressures.
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