Category: Other essays

Last night I had a dream about a new Star Trek show under development. This morning, I was thinking about why people are bigoted against transgender people. Wit...

Dyscalculia is highly comorbid* with Autism. Hypercalculia is highly comorbid with Autism. Dyslexia is highly comorbid with Autism. Hyperlexia is highly comorbi...

I was thinking this morning about the dialogue around AI like ChatGPT making human writing completely irrelevant. In a few years, computers will be able to crea...

A topic I’ve been seeing a lot recently in the Autism community is what is being derogatorily called “Aspie Supremacy”. This perspective sugge...

(These are initial thoughts as I process through this concept.) I was prompted to start thinking deeply about learned helplessness by this tweet and its follow-...

The person who allegedly killed five people at a gay bar the night before Trans Day of Remembrance has announced through their lawyers that they identify as non...

Prompt on Twitter: “When did you first notice feeling confused by social expectations?” Reply: I don’t remember “first”, but…...

There’s an urban legend going around that says that furry youth are demanding–and getting–litter boxes in high school bathrooms. I have yet to...

Let us assume for the moment that transgender and intersex people don’t exist. Let us assume that every single human has either XX or XY chromosomes and g...

Yesterday I saw a FB ad for a credit card offering cards with your chosen name, and several comments were sneering about “Why don’t you just get a n...