"At Compleat Kidz, a fast-growing chain of autism clinics based in North Carolina, the policy is firm: Naps cannot be longer than seven minutes before children are awakened to resume therapy."

Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz for The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/health/autism-therapy-clinics.html

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#WordWeavers 2026.05.26 — What is your antagonist’s earliest memory?

My chosen antagonist has been the protagonist in several stories, so this is pretty easy to figure out, and might even be canon. Rainy Days is maybe five, a decade before the story she will appear in. Her earliest memory would be of her kneeling on all fours in a yard, her knees and hands dirty and mashed into the soil, the smell of sawdust in the air, watching over her autistic twin brother Harvest Days as he plays with counting stones—currently arranged in piles of primes. She's doing so because their mother died in childbirth and taking care of children is girl's work. They're out there because their carpenter father, who is engaged in alternately planing and sanding some piece of furniture, is hoping to interest his son in his craft, to no avail because the man can't understand how his son is actually special. What made this day different is Rainy Days suddenly hears a voice, or thinks she does, and heart racing, she turns suddenly to the purple and orange horizon to squint, palm shading her eyes, at what we would call the sun. Did it speak to her? Why did it sound lonely?

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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Hey #ADHD #AuDHD #Autistic folks, so, while I'm not officially diagnosed with a specific neurodiversity yet, my therapist agrees there is definitely something there, probably in that area. I have been trying to chat with some older folks in my family about it and I sorta lack good resources or quizzes/quick assessment resources that could potentially help with breaching the subject with them, or helping in their own curiosity.

Are there any that folks recommend for good but easy reads?

Well. Lydie is not only queen klutz, but I can't remember things to save my life.

I have no "working" memory (a typical neurodivergent trait). And, in AI terms, my context window is very very small.

So I lose things. It costs me a lot of money buying replacements.

However, there is a modern tech that I'm just now trying. Air Tags (well, the Android equivalent). I'm going to put them on lots of things.

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There was a good decade where I barely brushed my teeth. And I was severely judgmental to myself about that.

But it wasn't because "I'm a crap person who can't do adult things." 1/2

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Growing up, I thought I was doing what everyone else was doing.
But at best my social encounters would fall flat, and at worst people would edge away.

Every social interaction became a minefield — trying not to say or do the wrong thing and set off a bomb, but having no idea what that wrong thing would be this time.

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