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I am working in the small hours of the morning on a day when I have not slept much. I woke earlier than I needed to, considered going back to sleep, listened to my body, and the body said: you are awake now, work now, the nap will come in a few hours, plan around it. So I started work, and...
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There’s a thing I do as a manager that I’m not proud of, and I’d like to write about it before I rationalise my way out of it. I sometimes catch myself watching my team. Not in the obvious way. I don’t audit Slack statuses or tally commits at 11pm. The watching is quieter than that. It’s a tone...
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I picked up The Courage to Be Disliked during a turbulent stretch – agentic AI disrupting the industry, layoffs rolling through, genuine uncertainty about the future of software engineering. I was looking for identity anchoring: something to help me know my strengths and weaknesses when the ground...
Neuro Poppins
Identity, Ideology, and the Trap of Affirmation I expect some backlash for this piece, so… bring it
Neuro Poppins
Q: What made you start wanting to advocate for the intersection between both autism and gender? A: My answer to a question I received on Tumblr about why I do what I do
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The Erasure of Autistic Females: How Gender Ideology is Undermining Science, Medicine, and the Fight for Female Liberation Only recently has the medical field begun to acknowledge that autism presents differently in females. But just as science begins to recognise autistic girls and women on...
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Gender critical autistic voices interview. I feel like I fit in with my very small circle of ND acquaintances and friends, most of whom happen to be male, through no conscious decision of my own. I fit into the female sex class because it is my biological reality and, from a political standpoint,...
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Autism Organisation speaks out again in the Gender Debate The Danish autism organisation Autisme-og Aspergerforeningen have released another huge piece speaking out with a wake-up call for autism advocacy and politicians to stop the state-sanctioned harm.
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In the 2000s, giving Lupron to autistic kids to "fix" them (and castrate/sterilise them) was rightly seen as abusive and eugenicist. Now, in the 2020s, giving Lupron to autistic kids under the banner of “Gender Affirming Care” is celebrated.