The New Gatekeepers of Autistic Knowledge
When the fight against misinformation starts producing the same harm it claims to prevent.
The Cognitive Ecologist
A space for deep inquiry, radical insight, and reimagining systems through Exclusion Feedback Synpraxis (EFS), the Cognitive Ecology Model (CEM), and emergent social theories.
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Autism Was Never the Epidemic
The public health crisis is the adults nobody counted — and then billed for the oversight.
The Uncertainty That Isn’t the Autistic Problem
Why intolerance of uncertainty was never the trait, and what a peer support group figured out before the researchers did.
Feedback Was Never the Problem. Correction Was.
What complexity science knows about loops that decades of report cards and performance reviews never taught me — and what it looks like to build a company around getting that right.
I Cannot Believe How Fast This Has Moved
Eighteen pledges, $3,750 of $5,500, nine days in. The date does not move and neither does the two-for-one — but I want to tell you what happens if this raises more than it needs.
The Board Game Study Nobody Sends You
Everyone shows us the deficit research. Here is one built the other way — grounded theory, ten autistic adults, and a finding that your chess night was never just a hobby.
You Cannot See Someone’s Capacity From Their Visibility
I went from 700 followers to nearly 6,000 in a few days, and being perceived this way is overwhelming.
The Static Never Goes Away, and That Is Fine
Twenty years of facilitating, and fifteen minutes into every session my body still does something I can only describe as static...
The Bill for a Skill Nobody Asked You to Build
Hypervigilance is not anxiety and it is not a malfunction. It is an accurate instrument, still running at full power in a room where nothing is going to happen.
On Decorum
On the difference between disagreeing with me and supervising me
I Didn’t Learn This. I Grew Up In It.
Eight modules on holding two true things at once — and the hardest part was working out what standing I have to teach something I never had to learn.
Three Years, Ten Thousand Dollars, and a Thing That Should Outgrow Me
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Ecology Was Never Ours to Own
Something is shifting in how we understand autism, cognition, and distress — and before anyone accidentally becomes known as the person who invented it, I want to find the tributaries
I Don’t Think AuDHD Is Contradictory
One foot on the gas, one foot on the brake?
Triage Before You Absorb
If you are building something that asks people to change, you will get pushback. Your nervous system will treat all of it as the same thing.
A model is not a funding stream
People keep telling me society disabled me, as though that resolved something. Society is also administering the benefits — and is now automating the refusal.
A theory of change
You cannot punish people into transformation. You can punish them into compliance — and we keep mistaking one for the other.
What kind of environment allows this nervous system to thrive?
Someone asked whether I would have done anything differently if I had known my sons were autistic when they were little. My answer surprised them.