Start Here (Thematic Archive)

This archive is sorted by thematic resonance, not chronology. Many pieces “belong” in more than one place - because healing, resistance, and self-recognition rarely obey tidy borders. I have done my best to sort them by how they most strongly resonate for me.

I. AUTISTIC EMBODIMENT & MASKING

• High-Masking Isn’t Low Needs - It’s Expensive Survival

• Unmasking: The Journey to Authenticity

• When People Find Me Exhausting: A Compliment to My Unmasking Journey

• The Art of Strategic Disappearing: How Fawning and Flopping Build Sanctuaries

• The Possum and the Raccoon: Survival Architectures in PDA

• Unmasking to Taylor Swift: From The Archer to You're On Your Own, Kid

II. CRITICAL THERAPY & SYSTEMS

• Reclaiming Rogers’ Revolution From Therapy’s Neutrality Trap

• Radical Aesthetics and Radical Praxis (When Therapy’s Branding Outpaces Ethics)

• Sanctuary Walls, Not Cages: How Boundaries Free Radical Congruence

• The Therapeutic Uncanny Valley: When Relatability Becomes a Barrier

• Refuge Architecture: Building Sanctuary in a Burning System

• Grounding with Mabel: Lessons from a Grumpy Little Dog

III. TRAUMA & SOMATIC RECKONING

• When the World Feels Far Away: On Dissociation, Trauma, and Coming Back

• Grief Waits

• The Books That Wait for You

• Smart or Oh So Pleasant? I Dissociated Into Both

• The Click That Made Me Make Sense: BDD, Chronic Pain, and the Body’s Quiet Corrections

IV. RELATIONAL HEALING

• Curiosity Instead of Anger: A Love Letter to Disagreement

• Messy Hair, Cozy Beanies, and a Steady Thread

V. NEURODIVERGENT POLITICS

• The Dangerous Comfort of "Autistic Predator-Radar"

• When Fearmongering Meets Power: Ableism & Anti-Vax Rhetoric

• Caring About Everything All at Once

• Four Subtypes? Why That’s the Least Interesting Part of the New Autism Study

VI. CREATIVE AUTONOMY

• The Art of Creative Autonomy: Making, Breaking, and Rebuilding Rules

• Reclaiming Autonomy Through Creativity

• Animal Crossing, Biff the Hippo... (Revolutionary Power of Googling)

• Perfectionism and the Cost of the Perfect Person Olympics

VII. IDENTITY & RECONFIGURATION

• Severance and the Ship of Theseus: Who Are We Without Our Pasts?

• The Curious Paradox: Why Accepting Yourself is the First Step Toward Change

• What Venus de Milo Taught Me About "Broken" Bodies

VIII. SPECIAL EDITIONS

• Special Edition Field Manual: Practicing in the Gaps