After a lifetime of feeling like a blue crayon in a red box, I was finally diagnosed with autism and ADHD at 28. For most of my life, I’d tried to squish myself into neurotypical spaces, explaining away my quirks, masking where I could, and turning up charm or humor where I couldn’t. I wasn’t […]
A young man, only 20 years old, died during an operation to repair his flap arm, and news outlets reported it all over the place. I saw the New York Times article on Facebook and read it with grim curiosity. When I read that he had suffered a blood clot, my curiosity grew grimmer. Just […]
