Uta Frith wants to remove late-diagnosed autistic adults from the spectrum. By her own contraindicators, I shouldn’t have my diagnosis. By my 32 years of wrong diagnoses, I have my answer.

On epistemic authority, paradigm shifts, and who gets to define the experience from the inside.
https://medium.com/@christian.gajewski/who-owns-the-authority-to-define-autism-3bb89836a2cb

#Autism #Neurodiversity #Psychology #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

A 1980s anime handed me an honor code at ten. A clinic handed me the autism diagnosis at 48. Two names for the same nervous system, and the older one was kinder.
What is a diagnosis actually measuring?

https://medium.com/@christian.gajewski/bushido-named-my-autism-38-years-before-the-clinic-did-698c6999e1a2

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD

Just watched Sorrentino's La Grazia on MUBI. Wrote about it on Substack: the film as grief work in four registers, death, love, role, and the idea of the self. For anyone whose inner life needs a translator before it can be felt.

https://open.substack.com/pub/christiangajewski/p/sorrentinos-la-grazia-or-the-grief?r=1y90fn&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#PaoloSorrentino #ToniServillo #LaGrazia #ItalianCinema #Mourning

I recently read Cialdini's Influence: Science and Practice. The reciprocity principle raised substantial doubts for me. My autistic experience suggests that, in interactions with neurotypical people, that principle deforms in systematic ways. Alongside the double empathy problem, a parallel problem of double reciprocity may be at work.
Have you noticed anything similar?

#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

My AuDHD mornings run on dice now. Six tasks on paper, a 1d6 for priority, a 1d20 for minutes per task, a 60-second primer timer that runs before everything else. The system that finally aligns the autistic architecture (taxonomies, protocols) with the ADHD activation (urgency, novelty). New piece today on Invisible Illness.

https://medium.com/invisible-illness/how-d-d-dice-and-a-60-second-timer-run-my-audhd-day-a5053f5ba12e

#AuDHD #Autism #ADHD #LateDiagnosis

Quick follow-up on the book post from this morning, in case it scrolled past.

The launch price ($4.99 / €4.99) is structural. I priced it at $9.99 in April and the book stalled. Lowering it through June 30 to rebuild some traction. Honest signal of what works and what does not, for any indie author here debating the same question.

Wrong Planet / Right Mind on Amazon Kindle.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWS5DXWM

#ActuallyAutistic #LateAutismDiagnosis #IndieAuthor