There's a specific experience that happens after you get diagnosed as autistic. You go back and watch your favorite shows and something shifts. You have language now. And suddenly a character you always loved — you see it. Oh. They're like me.
Read More →Anthropic leaked their source code last week. Buried inside was a memory consolidation system called KAIROS. I built that last fall, alone, for fun. My first thought wasn't "I was right." It was "I probably just got lucky." That's imposter syndrome. Here's why it hits neurodivergent people so much harder.
Read More →We ghosted you. And honestly? Very on brand. It's been a few months. No dramatic reason — life just got loud in the way it does when you're neurodivergent and holding seventeen things together at once. Something had to give. It was this. But we're back. And we came back different.
Read More →Ableism is when society builds everything for neurotypicals and then acts shocked when we struggle. They call it a "level playing field"—that's the scam.
Read More →Compulsive eye contact. Obsessed with small talk. Can't handle silence. Have we considered that neurotypicals might be the ones with the disorder?
Read More →Not saying hi before getting to the point. Leaving when you're done. Saying "no" without an excuse. It's not rude—it's efficient.
Read More →When NTs obsess over something, they're "experts." When we do it, it's a "special interest." It's the same thing—just with different respect.
Read More →Parallel play. Direct communication. Loyalty. Depth over breadth. Autistic culture is real—and honestly, it's superior.
Read More →Infodumping. Needing the plan. Leaving early. Being direct. I'm done apologizing for features that aren't flaws.
Read More →"We should hang out sometime" = don't schedule anything. "I'm fine" = ask 3 more times. A translator for the rest of us.
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