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When Working For Someone Else… “Costs” Too Much.
What is the real cost of a corporate career when you’re autistic? I billed like a VP but paid a brutal “Autistic Tax” navigating a corporate shark tank of unwritten rules and sensory overload. Here’s why working for someone else costs neurodivergent professionals far too much.
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How I Became an Autistic Performer at 4… Then Acted My Life
I’m writing an autobiography… out loud. Building a book. Fragment by fragment. Just like I lived it. So… I gotta go. So, I zigzag down this narrow wooden aisle. Row after row of maybe a couple hundred screaming kids… and shouting adults. Squeezed into wooden folding chairs. Each one tired of waiting for the party…
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I Don’t Think I Had a “Personality” as an Autistic Kid
I was busy finding Infinity in a burnt-off ant leg…
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The Autistic Treatment Funhouse, Room of Exams
In 1972, a traumatic car crash triggered my harrowing mental health journey. Decades before a late autism and alexithymia diagnosis at 63, I couldn’t explain my feelings… much less why. Read this raw, unfiltered autobiography fragment to explore the depths of trauma, resilience, and the survival of my autistic joys.
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Autistic. I Followed Every Rule… Gaslit at Every Turn.
What happens when an autistic “alien” uses books and movies to decode human behavior? I got a brutal reality check. In this raw memoir fragment, I explore hyperlexia, cultural gatekeeping from Oliver Stone to Harper Lee, and my desperate attempts at survival. Read Fragment 2 of my autobiography, coming Fall 2026.
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Welcome to the Autism Treatment Funhouse
What happens when you’re trapped in the medical model of autism for decades? Step into the horror-themed funhouse. I’m an autistic elder sharing my raw, unfiltered truth of surviving a system built for a different mind… fragment by fragment. Read the real story.
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When "Kind" Words… Hurt: An Autistic Elder on Microaggressions – #AutisticAF Out Loud
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