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The Architecture Beneath the Spelling Debate
On the Schlosser Review, the Microbiome, and the Question Controlled Trials Can’t Reach Note: Nothing in this argument reduces the importance of protecting nonspeaking individuals from facilitator influence, coercion, projection, or misattributed communication. The neuroscientist… Read more
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The Wrong Fight
Why borrowing systems-medicine vocabulary into pathology logic keeps producing “lite” versions — and what taking the model seriously would require. It’s not the word. It’s the model the word is doing work inside. We’ve been… Read more
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On Lineage: Where “Neurodiversity-Lite” Comes From, and What I’m Adding
A positioning note on the term “neurodiversity-lite,” the lineage of its development, and what the Evolutionary Stress Framework is contributing to an existing conversation. I’ve been writing about “neurodiversity-lite” across the ESF PSA series and… Read more
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The Purse Came Off. The Pathology Stayed
Autistic anxiety. Autistic burnout. Autistic menopause. These may share diagnostic labels with general-population presentations, but they often emerge through different neurological, sensory, interoceptive, and perceptual architectures meeting different conditions. The diagnostic label aggregates across configurations… Read more
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Both Autistic, Different Registers: A Clean Case for the Double Empathy Problem
This is what I want research on autistic communication to take seriously. Not — do autistic people read tone? That’s the wrong question, and it’s been the wrong question for a long time. The right… Read more
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Neurodiversity Keeps Becoming a Box. Here’s Why.
The medical and social models of disability frame neurodivergence differently: the former views it as a bodily defect, while the latter sees it as an environmental issue. Neither model effectively liberates neurodivergent individuals, as both… Read more
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The Autism Spectrum Isn’t Collapsing. The Model Is. We Just Don’t See It Yet.
The autism spectrum isn’t collapsing. The model is. A response to Frith, the IACC’s profound-autism vote, and what arrives in their place. Read more
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Where the Observer Meets the Researcher: Autistic Lived Experience as Independent Triangulation
“I did not learn their frameworks and then apply them to my experience. I recognized my experience in their frameworks. The distinction matters enormously.” Read more
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What We Measure Is What We Miss
The autism field measures behavior. It measures social performance. It measures relational patterns. All real. All important. All surface. ABA, social-communication research, and attachment-based models disagree about almost everything — except one thing none of… Read more
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I’m Not Just Stressed
What your body might actually be telling you There’s a moment most of us know. You’re in the middle of an ordinary day — a meeting that’s gone on too long, a conversation that’s pivoted… Read more
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