Illustration by author. Urban landscape of graffitti on cement wall. Hand-scrawled sign to the left reads, "AUTISTICAF OUT LOUD. ONE VOICE. RAW. REAL. FIERCELY NEURODIVERGENT. A blurred, moving human figure in a black hoodie and white sneakers exists right into darkness. Digital tools included Krita and AI.

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Author Johnny Profane Âû.

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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Author Johnny Profane Âû.

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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Author Johnny Profane Âû.

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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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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