| Website | https://www.christiangajewski.com |
| Medium | https://medium.com/@christian.gajewski |
| Substack | https://christiangajewski.substack.com |
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.
#Autism #Neurodiversity #Philosophy #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
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?
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?
@ablock @OrionKidder Thank you, @ablock. A recommendation from someone who actually read the book carries more weight than any line I could write about it myself.
@OrionKidder the book runs in the register you're asking for: analytical, logic-driven, masking treated as mechanism rather than narrated as feeling. Whether you recognize yourself in it is the only test that counts, and a few pages will answer that. Ask me anything if it helps you decide.
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.
#PaoloSorrentino #ToniServillo #LaGrazia #ItalianCinema #Mourning
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.
#PaoloSorrentino #ToniServillo #LaGrazia #ItalianCinema #Mourning
