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High-Masking Isn’t Low Needs - It’s Expensive Survival
"You seem fine!" they proclaimed, congratulating my camouflaged collapse, mistaking borrowed functionality for comfort.
Jul 8
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Libby Banks
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High-Masking Isn’t Low Needs - It’s Expensive Survival
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Reclaiming Rogers’ Revolution From Therapy’s Neutrality Trap
My first weeks of graduate school, I learned two things about Carl Rogers: first, that I could mirror "unconditional positive regard" so perfectly in…
Jul 1
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Reclaiming Rogers’ Revolution From Therapy’s Neutrality Trap
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June 2025
Refuge Architecture: Building Sanctuary in a Burning System
Purists often demand bonfires.
Jun 26
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Libby Banks
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Refuge Architecture: Building Sanctuary in a Burning System
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Animal Crossing, Biff the Hippo, and the Revolutionary Power of Googling Your Pixelated Pals
The Paralyzing Screen
Jun 23
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Libby Banks
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Animal Crossing, Biff the Hippo, and the Revolutionary Power of Googling Your Pixelated Pals
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The Books That Wait for You
The first book I read after the drought wasn’t the heavy therapeutic tome I had expected to break the curse.
Jun 18
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Libby Banks
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The Books That Wait for You
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Sanctuary Walls, Not Cages: How Boundaries Free Radical Congruence
Two of therapy’s most sacred myths insist:
Jun 16
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Libby Banks
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Sanctuary Walls, Not Cages: How Boundaries Free Radical Congruence
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The Art of Strategic Disappearing: How Fawning and Flopping Build Sanctuaries in Hostile Systems
They call me “spacey” when I’m running complex threat calculus.
Jun 15
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Libby Banks
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The Art of Strategic Disappearing: How Fawning and Flopping Build Sanctuaries in Hostile Systems
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The Dangerous Comfort of "Autistic Predator-Radar"
Yesterday, I made a TikTok addressing a pervasive narrative in autistic spaces: the idea that autistic people are immune to manipulation because of our…
Jun 13
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Libby Banks
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The Dangerous Comfort of "Autistic Predator-Radar"
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The Possum and the Raccoon: Survival Architectures in PDA
Wyatt’s sandwich halted halfway to his mouth.
Jun 9
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Libby Banks
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The Possum and the Raccoon: Survival Architectures in PDA
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May 2025
When People Find Me Exhausting: A Compliment to My Unmasking Journey
Yesterday, a stranger on TikTok told me I was “exhausting.”
May 26
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Libby Banks
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When People Find Me Exhausting: A Compliment to My Unmasking Journey
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Radical Aesthetics and Radical Praxis
When Therapy’s Branding Outpaces Its Ethics
May 25
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Libby Banks
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Radical Aesthetics and Radical Praxis
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February 2025
When the World Feels Far Away: On Dissociation, Trauma, and Coming Back to Yourself
Content warning: This piece discusses dissociation, trauma, and chronic pain.
Feb 8
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When the World Feels Far Away: On Dissociation, Trauma, and Coming Back to Yourself
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