The neuroaffirmative turn de-pathologised alexithymia. It didn't de-centralise emotion as the reference category. That distinction is everything.
This week's Substack is about what the clinical vocabulary couldn't name, and the word I coined to fill that gap.

https://open.substack.com/pub/christiangajewski/p/thirty-seven-degrees-a-fan-pointed?r=1y90fn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#Autism #Neurodiversity #Philosophy #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

Thirty-seven degrees, a fan pointed at me, and the word I needed didn’t exist yet

On naming something the clinical vocabulary had no container for.

Christian Gajewski