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The First Step Is Not the Conclusion
Recently on Threads, discourse around “being disabled but not autistic” has been frequent.
Apr 8
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Libby Banks
March 2026
The Signs Were Deliberately Obscured
Content warnings: Intimate partner violence/abuse, sexual assault (statistical mention, not depicted), coercive control, gaslighting, body dysmorphic…
Mar 17
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Libby Banks
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Compression as Neurodivergent Praxis
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Mar 3
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Libby Banks
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February 2026
Pacing as Resistance
Dynamic Disability and the Refusal to Earn Rest
Feb 17
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Libby Banks
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Smart or Oh So Pleasant? I Dissociated Into Both
Elwood P.
Feb 3
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Libby Banks
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January 2026
The House I Already Knew: Reading Piranesi as Dissociative Architecture
Note: This essay discusses Piranesi’s central mystery and transformation.
Jan 20
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Libby Banks
Crumbs Before Vows
He was washing dishes, his shoulders moving in a rhythm that I had always read as concentration.
Jan 13
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Libby Banks
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Still, I Became A Therapist
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Jan 6
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Libby Banks
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December 2025
Radical Coherence: Why Everything Connects to Everything (And That's Not a Conspiracy)
Most of us learn one kind of coherence in school - A leads to B leads to C.
Dec 30, 2025
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Libby Banks
Kindness as Repudiation
The TikTok comment stung: “Your kindness is just fawning/a trauma response.”
Dec 23, 2025
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Libby Banks
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When Self-Compassion Doesn't Work
The Paradox
Dec 16, 2025
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Libby Banks
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Anyone Can Cook: Why Exceptionalism in Ratatouille Works (and The Incredibles Doesn't)
I have complex feelings about exceptionalism narratives.
Dec 9, 2025
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Libby Banks
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