April 2024
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My Creative Writing Degree Drove Me Away from the Craft. 10 Years Later, A Glimmer of Recovery
As a teenager, I knew I was going to be a writer. I had it all figured out, and to kickstart this process, I was definitely going to college for creative writing. The college part happened, at least. But like a wish granted by a monkey’s paw, it wasn’t what I expected. My advice to…
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Who Died and Made You the Legitimacy Police? (A Critique of Diagnostic Gatekeeping)
The other day, I was bumbling around on YouTube and found a (then very recent) video from the I’m Autistic, Now What? channel titled “You’re Not Autistic, You’re Just Privileged.” It was, essentially, a response to two TikToks that were critical of self-diagnosing or people using social media to explore the possibility they might be…
The Multitasking Millennial 