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Passing from words to matter

The compulsion to capture: from cave walls to camera rolls

Work is broken: Marx, alienation, and the Great Pretending

On shifting interests and writing a newsletter

The "god trick" and how we read authority

What fish can teach us about mental disorders

Am I autistic enough?

The Collection of Collections

What your writing reveals about you (even when you don’t know it)

Why is autism so common now?

A thinker's notebook: writers, autism, and Wittgenstein

Could a drive for certainty be key to autism?

Setting the scene: how visuals and memory intertwine in autism

The versions of me I can’t remember: autism and autobiographical memory

Living with contradiction: Tove Jansson’s wartime diaries, and ours

When the DSM gets it wrong: vulnerable narcissism and autism

Biography and the temptation to make things up

Divine inspiration, creative possession: how insights emerge fully formed

"I can't make it sincere enough": Karen Read, Amanda Knox, and the performance of innocence

The root of storytelling is pattern

Evolutionary mismatch: just one part of the neurodivergence story

My autistic special interests: the fire that burns itself out

What we know about genetics & autism

Breaking: Leaked HHS budget cuts target autism

Field Notes #1: Extroversion, poetic license, and the basis of "good taste"

Before vaccines, we blamed fairies

Artificial intelligence isn’t replacing me – it’s extending me

The empathy penalty: a startling study on girls, math, and social sensitivity

When you see yourself in your child—and start worrying for two

Some rules for thinking about autism

Why autism gave me supersonic hearing

Identity labeling is useful — until it isn't

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