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Episode 289: Silencing Autistic Inquiry
Silencing the Questions: How U.S. Education Policy Threatens Autistic Quality of Life Research
Episode 288: After Mahmoud - The Collapse of Inclusive Public Education
After Mahmoud: The Coming Collapse of Inclusion in Public Education
Slowed-Down Love: On Plushies, Loss, and the Consciousness of Matter
Episode 286: Autistic Time - A Rhythmic Sovereignty
It takes as long as it takes—and that’s ok.
Episode 285: Psychiatry, Empire, and the Myth of Objectivity
Neutrality Was Never Neutral: Objectivity as Settler Logic, Psychiatry as Empire’s Epistemic Machine
Episode 284: The Silent Symphony of Autistic Embodied Language
When Silence Isn’t Absence: Notes on Autistic Embodied Language
Episode 283: When Resilience Becomes a Cage
Episode 282: The Market Value of Compliance
The Market Value of Compliance: Queries and References
The Market Value of Compliance: Functioning Labels as Economic Assignments
Episode 281: From Soviet Sun to Capitalist Lamp - The Politics of Literacy
Glory to the Sun: A Little Conversation About Literacy, Agitprop, and Oligarchs
Episode 280: Sanism and Cis-Heteronormativity in Professional Gatekeeping
Sane-Heteroprofessionalism in Practice: A Reflexive Annotated Engagement with Davies et al. (2024)
Episode 279: Autistic Empaths - A Systems View of Chronic Anxiety
Interdependence Is Not a Crutch: We Were Never Meant to Hold It All Alone
Episode 278: AI Brain Study - Cognitive Debt or Systemic Burden?
The MIT AI Brain Study Didn’t Measure What It Thinks It Measured
Episode 277: Unseen Language - A Letter to Parents of GLP Younglings
The Long Archive: A Letter to Parents of GLP Younglings
Episode 276: Autistic Sensory Overload - The Lights Were Always Brighter
The Lights Were Always Brighter: New Science Confirms Autistic Sensory Overload
Episode 275: Autistic Crashes - Memes as Lived Research and Knowledge
Not a Spiral, But a Crash: How Memes Outpace Academia in Understanding Autistic Emotional Distress
Episode 274: Unwriting Empire - A Queer History of Language
Unwriting Empire: A Queer History of Language and the Feminine Spiral
Episode 273: Luminous Beings - Phosphenes, Biophotons, and Autistic Perception
We Are Luminous Beings: On Phosphenes, Biophotons, and Autistic Perception
Episode 272: We Were Never Lost
We Were Never Lost: Trans Continuity, Folktale Fire, and the Warehouse of Empire
Episode 271: Autistic Critique and the Myth of Neutrality
Just the Facts, Please: On Being Too Autistic for the Annotated Bibliography
Episode 270: A Theatre of Becoming
She/They: Possibly Appearing, Time Permitting
Episode 269: The Autistic Question - Rewriting the American Dream
“For Nothing:" Baldwin, Buckley, and the Autistic Question
Episode 268: Sub-minimum Expectations - Special Education's Gig Future
Subminimum Expectations: A Cautionary Tale from the Gig-ified Future of Special Education
Episode 267: The Unspeakable Truths of an Autistic Body
When Kindness Feels Like Intrusion: Why Time Doesn’t March for Me
Episode 266: Literacy as Political Smokescreen - Weaponising Education
Literacy as Smokescreen: How the Trump Administration’s “Science of Reading” Weaponises Education
Episode 265: Training in Public
Training in Public: Why I Write So Much
Episode 264: What the Skin Remembers
What the Skin Remembers: Transition, Nourishment, and the Refusal to Perform
Episode 263: Pride: Unlicensed Joy, Ungoverned Love
Pride: Unlicensed Joy, Ungoverned Love
Episode 262: The Erasure of Autistic Voice
Episode 261: The Architecture of Sensory Safety in Classrooms
Everything Was Too Something: the Shape of Safety
Episode 260: Diagnostic Frameworks and AuDHD Recognition
When the Traits Don’t Fit the Frame: How 'Lack' and 'Disruption' Distort AuDHD Diagnosis
Episode 259: A Radiant Refusal
Queer as In: A Love Letter to Joy, to Us, to Now
Episode 258: A Frequency I Never Asked to Tune Into
A Frequency I Never Asked to Tune Into
Episode 257: Ableism as Colonial Mind: Unlearning and Decolonising
Ableism as a Colonial Condition: A Reframing
Episode 256: Autism, the DSM, and Eugenic Statistics
Quantified and Contained: Autism, the DSM, and the Eugenic Roots of Statistical Authority
Episode 255: The Cartographer’s Return - GLP Minds in the Classroom
The Cartographer’s Return: GLP Minds in the Classroom
Episode 254: Refusing the Elevator Pitch - Understanding GLP Minds
Refusing the Elevator Pitch: On Reciprocity, Resonance, and the Ethics of Understanding GLP Minds
Episode 253: Ein Augenblick - Theatre of Gestalts
Ein Augenblick: A Theatre of Gestalts
Episode 252: The Coin and the Collar - The GENIUS Act
The Coin and the Collar: The GENIUS Act Is a Trap, Not a Reform
Episode 251: Unmasking America's Autism Therapy Obsession
Sunday Musings: On Asymmetry, Empathy, and the Curious Absence of Autistic Voice in ABA Research
Episode 250: The Frequency of Belonging
The Frequency of Belonging: On Autistic Memory, Refusal, and Kinship
Episode 249: Autistic Solitude and Trauma as Strategy
When Solitude Becomes Strategy – Reframing Hyper-Individualism in Autistic Lives
Episode 248: Heights of Theory, Horizons of Socialism
Episode 247: Plain Language Unlocks Grade-Level Content
When Words Get in the Way: How Plain Language Unlocks Grade-Level Content
Episode 246: The Autistic Heroine's Journey
Untranslated: The Autistic Heroine’s Journey
Episode 245: Legacy of Normalisation - Paperclip to HHS and Autism
The System Was Built This Way: From Operation Paperclip to HHS
Episode 244: Neurodivergent Voices Reshape Journalism's Future
The Em Dash Is Not AI: On Neurodivergent Voice and the Policing of Online Language
Episode 243: A Slow Homecoming
A Slow Homecoming: Through Fire, Through Water, Through Flame
Episode 242: Autistic Reading of AJT v Osseo
What the Courts Refuse to See: an Autistic Reading of A.J.T. v. Osseo
Episode 241: Expert Reports - A Pattern of Institutional Containment
Not the First, Not the Last: How Institutions Manufacture Legitimacy Through Expert-Led Containment
Episode 240: Becoming the Receiver
On Time, Transition, and the Spiral of Noticing
Becoming the Receiver: A Celebration of Autistic Emergence
Episode 239: Artefacts from Værensland: A Constellation in a Message
Artefacts from Værensland: A Constellation in a Message
Episode 238: The Future the Curriculum Forgot
Preparing for Yesterday’s Problems Whilst Tomorrow Burns
Episode 237: Not a Deficit - Living the DSM from the Inside
Not a Deficit: Living the DSM from the Inside
Episode 236: Sometimes Understanding Is Enough
Sometimes Understanding Is Enough
Episode 235: The Familiar Monster - Swedish Dracula and American Authoritarianism
The Vampire Within: What a Forgotten Swedish Dracula Tells Us About American Authoritarianism
Episode 234: A GLP's Guide to Decoding Financial Fear-Mail
Decode the Panic: A Neurodivergent Guide to Financial Fear-Mail
Episode 233: Why Teach When Teachers Aren't Valued?
Why Teach in a Country That Doesn’t Value Teachers?
Episode 232: Capitalism's Dystopia - Harari, Lutnick, and the New Serfdom
The Head Fake: From Harari to Lutnick, and the Capitalist Lie Behind the New Serfdom
Episode 231: The High Cost of Autistic Masking
The Cost of Passing: Autism, Masking, and the Gendered Disappearance from Diagnosis
Episode 230: DSM Changes, Autism, and Place
The Line We Carry: A Mother’s Day Reflection
Sunday Opinion: A Functional Society Doesn’t Look Like This
Episode 229: Capitalism, Wheelchairs, and the Politics of Mobility
The Market Decides Who Moves: Wheelchairs, Capital, and the Bipartisan Betrayal of Disabled People
Episode 228: Theory and Practice Converge in Language Education
Episode 227: The Diagnostic Cage
The Diagnostic Cage: When “Support” Is a Strategy of Containment
Episode 226: The Cailleach Returns
The Cailleach Returns: Trans Femininity, Dangerous Wisdom, and the Terror of Unwritten Womanhood
Episode 225: Screams, Softness, and Seeing Patriarchy
Screams and Softness: Why Andrea Dworkin Must Be Read Now
Episode 224: Returning to Moominvalley - A Radical Education
The Valley That Held Me: Returning to Moominland
Episode 223: The Softness That Resists
The Shape of Softness: A Femmeness Unseen
Episode 222: Decoding RFK Jr.'s Capitalist Autism Rhetoric
Capitalist Dictionary: Decoding RFK Jr.’s Autism Rhetoric
Episode 221: Not Here to Perform - Autistic Communication and Connection
We Are Not Here to Perform: A GLP’s Reflection on Communication, Connection, and Respect
Episode 220: Accountability and Transparency in Behavior Analysis
If You Wanted an OSAC for ABA: Why Radical Transparency Terrifies the Behaviour Analysis Industry
Episode 219: ABA Critique - Policing Dissent as Reputation Management
A Review of the "Review": How the ABA Industry Uses Peer-Reviewed Journals to Police Dissent
Episode 218: RFK Jr., Geier, and the Betrayal of Autism Advocacy
First Thought, Worst Thought: Why David Geier Was RFK Jr.’s Pick to Lead His Autism Study
Episode 217: Bealltainn Fire and Unconditional Belonging
Bealltainn Fire: What Endures When Power Fades
Episode 216: Beyond Biology: Reclaiming Womanhood's Fluid History
Before the Cage: How "Woman" Was a Social Location — and How Biological Essentialism Stole It
Episode 215: Wohlig - Queer Journeys of Exile, Survival, and Truth
Wohlig: The Quiet Comfort of Finished Words
Episode 214: Echoes of Harm - Autism Research Still Blaming Mothers
Echoes of Harm: How Autism Research Still Blames Mothers
Episode 213: Designing for Difference - A UDL Week Audio Companion
No Script, Just Truth: One Year After I Came Out
Episode 212: The Joy That Lives in My Skin
Episode 211: The Long Memory of Stone - Relational Knowledge and Ancient Maths
Episode 210: Let the Traces Speak
Let the Traces Speak: Against the Erasure of Autistic Presence
Episode 209: Autism - a Systemic Mismatch, Not Individual Defect
Episode 208: When Struggle Isn't Growth
When Struggle Isn’t Growth: How 'Productive Struggle' Became Institutional Neglect
Episode 207: The Long Memory of Gestalts - An Autistic Multilingual Experience
Bis ans Ende der Welt: The Long Memory of Gestalts
Episode 206: Reading the System - Critical Autism Studies and Power
Reading the System: Autism, Power, and the Politics of Knowing
Episode 205: Solving for Belonging- Reclaiming Maths with Story and Clarity
Solving for Belonging: A GLP’s Guide to Teaching Math with Story and Sense
Episode 204: Tartan Day - Memory, Genocide, and the Scottish Diaspora
What Empire Erases, We Remember
Episode 203: The Digital Oubliette
Unboosted: Autism, Identity, and the Silence of Systems
Episode 202: The Grammar of Control
The Grammar of Control: Why They Won’t Learn Your Name
Episode 201: Invisible Twice - Masking Autism and Gender
Invisible Twice: The Mental Health Toll of Camouflaging Autism and Gender
Episode 200: Autistic Picky Eaters and the Peculiar Effects of a Restricted Diet
The Edge and the Mirror: On Tala Brandeis, Trans Womanhood, and Erotic Truth
Episode 199: Fading Whose Voice? ABA, Scripting, and Gestalt Language
Fading Whose Script? ABA, Misrecognition, and the Erasure of Gestalt Language Processing
Episode 198: Scripting is Speech
Scripting Is Not a Symptom—It’s Speech: What This ABA Study Gets Dangerously Wrong
Episode 197: The Three Body Problem
Unsolvable by Design: Living the Three-Body Problem
They Call Me Bitter: On the Mistranslation of Autistic Emotion
Episode 195: Narrative Control - Dismantling Education Oversight
MacFarlane’s Lantern: For the Scatterlings of Alba
Narrative Control by Design: Why the First Victim of Ed Department Cuts Is the Truth
Episode 194: Autism, Psychoanalysis, and Neurodivergent Affirming Therapy
Episode 193: Masking Autism - the Invisibility of High-Masking Girls of Colour
Episode 192: Beyond Relationship-Centered: Systemic Harm and Authentic Creation
When “Relationship-Centred” Isn’t Enough
Episode 191: Beyond Binary - Autism, Gender, and Trans Inclusion
Who Gets to Be an Autistic Woman?
Episode 190: Creating Beyond Compliance - a Teacher's Journey of Innovation
Episode 189: Neuroqueer Becoming - Goals Beyond Arrival
No One Ever Told Me Transition Would Give Me Goals: A Neuroqueer Reflection on Becoming
Episode 188: The Shock Doctrine Comes Home
From Prague to Peoria: The Shock Doctrine Comes Home
Episode 187: Knowledge as Wonder
Knowledge as Wonder: A Journey Beyond Rationalism
Episode 186: The Failure of "Evidence-Based" Education
The Verdict Is In: ‘Evidence-Based’ Education Fails the Test of Real Science
Episode 185: Echoes of Eugenics: Autism, Research, and Erasure
What We Choose to Fund: Echoes of Eugenics in Modern Autism “Research”
Episode 184: Unchosen - a Memoir of Defiance and Self-Belonging
Blast Radius: Epicentre of a Thousand Memories
Episode 183: Autism, Mental Health, and the Trap of Capitalist Control
The Master's Tools: Why Affirming Care Can’t Exist in a System Built to Control
Episode 182: Sorting the Future - Education, Exclusion, and Authoritarian Logic
Sorting the Future: Memory, Education, and the Quiet Return of Authoritarian Logic
Episode 181: Autism Research - Ignoring Autistic Adults for Medicalisation
Where’s the Support? Autism Research in 2025 Still Ignores Autistic Adulthood
Episode 180: The Betrayal of Trans Liberation - on the Aftermath of Trust
Episode 179: The Far-Right War on Public Education and the Demonisation of Care
Commodified, Then Cast Aside: The Betrayal of Trans Liberation
Radicals, Zealots, and Marxists: The Far-Right War on Public Education and the Demonisation of Care
Episode 178: Sabotaging Education - Stupidification for Class Control
The Deliberate Sabotage of Public Education: Who Benefits from Stupidification?
Episode 177: Too Expensive to Teach - Austerity and the Erosion of Education
Beannachtaí na Cónocht: Blessings from the In-Between
Too Expensive to Teach: The Systemic Push to Drive Out Experienced Educators
Episode 176: Soviet Psychology and Gestalt Language Processing - a Forgotten History
The Forgotten Science of Language: What Vygotsky, Luria, and Leontiev Knew About GLPs
Episode 175: Setun - the Lost Future of Non-Binary Computing and Profit's Price
The Road Not Taken – Setun, the Cold War, and the Lost Future of Non-Binary Computing
Episode 174: Prompts and Cues - Fostering Independence in the Classroom
Prompts vs. Cues in Classroom Management – Supporting Independence, Not Dependence
Episode 173: Still Here, Still Queer - Neuroqueer Futures Beyond Empire
Still Here, Still Queer: Neuroqueerness, Utopia, and the End of Empire
Episode 172: Burnout - a Broken World, Not a Personal Failing
They Call It Burnout—We Call It a Broken World
Episode 171: Corporate Gaslighting - Parental Engagement vs. Systemic Survival
Engagement or Survival? The Corporate Gaslighting of Working-Class Parents
Episode 170: The Theft of Meaning - Literacy as Enclosure
The Theft of Meaning: How Literacy Became Enclosure
Episode 169: Decolonise Your Mind
The Architects of Meaning: GLPs, Retrocausality, and the Cognitive Work of Decolonisation
Episode 168: The Settler's Manifesto
The Settler's Manifesto: How the Heritage Foundation Plans to Colonise Public Education
Episode 167: Autism - Eugenics, Diagnosis, and the Fight for Existence
Episode 166: Autistic Time - History, Memory, and the Fluidity of Becoming
Writing to Be Heard in a World That Won’t Listen
This is Not the Final Version: Autistic Time, Transition, and the Fluidity of History
Episode 165: Decolonising Autism Studies - Language, Identity, and Education
The Colonial Blind Spots in Multilingual Autism Research: A Case for Decolonising Language Education
Episode 164: Before and After Gender - Speculations on Time and Identity
The Last Person Before Gender, the Fractured One, and the First Child of the Next World
Episode 163: Capitalist Collapse - Neofeudalism, Socialist Resistance, and the Future
Episode 162: ChatGPT, Translation, and the Power of Language
Tha obair a' moladh a' bhan-cheàrd
Episode 161: The Reserve Army of Labour
The Reserve Army of Labour, Autistic Exclusion, and the Illusion of Full Employment
Episode 160: Learned Helplessness in Autistic Students - Breaking the Cycle
Breaking the Cycle of Learned Helplessness in Autistic Students
Episode 159: AI-Driven Autism Detection - Eugenics, Surveillance, and Control
“We Missed Some”: The Eugenicist Logic Behind AI-Driven Autism Detection
Episode 158: Florida - a Corporate Dystopia in the Making
Episode 157: The Far-Right's War on 'Wokeness' is a Rejection of History
Episode 156: Alienation - Capitalism, Mental Health, and the Path to Liberation
Alienation and Mental Health: How Capitalism Manufactures Suffering and Suppresses Its Cure
Episode 155: The Tangerine Regime's War on Neurodivergence
The New Regime’s War on Neurodivergence
Episode 154: The Broken Contract - Literacy, Dyslexia, and the Legal Obligation
The Broken Contract: Dyslexia, Literacy, and the Legal Obligation to Educate
Episode 153: The MAHA Commission - Privatising Public Health for Corporate Profit
Meet the MAHA Commission: The Architects of America’s Next Great Looting
Episode 152: Capitalism - Myths, Machinery, Exploitation, and Colonialism
Capitalism 101: Beyond the Myths, Into the Machinery
Episode 151: AGP and Ethical Research for Autistic Lives
Able Grounded Phenomenology: Ethical Research for Autistic Lives
Episode 150: Bridging Reform and Revolution for Systemic Change
Reform or Revolution? Bridging the Divide in Neurodiversity Advocacy
Episode 149: Texas v. Becerra - Disability Rights, Trans Liberation, and Solidarity
Episode 148: The Assault on Section 504 and the Systemic Erosion of Disability Rights
POSIWID: The Assault on Section 504 and the True Purpose of American Governance
Welcome to My Space: Writing, Advocacy, and Discovery
Episode 146: Autism, Technology, and the Exhaustion of Modern Life
No Place for Me: Autism, Technology, and the Exhaustion of Modern Life
Episode 145: Ditch the SAVE Act
The SAVE Act and Patriarchy Unmasked: James Barry, Feminism, and the Eternal Fight for Autonomy
Episode 144: Red Clydeside Today
Between the Lines: The Life and Liberation Behind The AutSide
Episode 143: a Tale of Two Approaches to Neurodiversity
Erasure, Eugenics, and the Quest to Control Autism
Episode 142: Autism, Neurodivergence, and the Case Against Capitalism
From Diagnosis to Liberation: Autism Advocacy and the Case Against Capitalism
Episode 141: Academic Neurodiversity vs. Autistic Reality - A Critical Divide
The Great Divide: Academic Neurodiversity vs. Autistic Lived Reality
When the Going Gets Tough, They Move On: HRC’s Layoffs and the Abandonment of Trans People
Episode 139: Hayek's Road to Serfdom, a Neoliberal Inversion
The Real Road to Serfdom: How Hayek’s Disciples Built the System He Feared
Episode 138: The Corporate Takeover of Housing and the Case for Socialism
The Corporate Takeover of Housing—A Manufactured Crisis and the Case for Socialism
Episode 137: Trans Erasure-A History of Abandonment and the Fight for Liberation
Why Are Trans People Being Abandoned? The Truth About LGB ‘Allies’ and the Fight for Liberation
Episode 136: Stop Studying Autism and Do Something Already
Episode 135: A Takedown of Christian Nationalism
New US Tax Code Reflects Biblical Values, Adjusts Deductions Based on Gender
Episode 134: The War on Neurodivergence
The War on Neurodivergence: How Misinformation Shapes Policy and Endangers Lives
Episode 133: Embracing the Beautiful Beast - Anxiety, Autism, and the Art of Transformation
Embracing the Beautiful Beast: Anxiety, Autism, and the Art of Transformation
Episode 132: Financial Colonialism - The Great American Grift
Financial Colonialism: The Next Phase of the Great American Grift
Episode 131: What can we learn from DeepSeek?
DeepSeek and the Folly of Neoliberal AI: How the Global South Out-Innovated Silicon Valley
Episode 130: Where are the autistic women?
Episode 129: Penny Schwinn and the Neoliberal Looting of Public Education
Penny Schwinn and the Myth of Market-Driven Solutions: A Blueprint for Neoliberal Looting
Episode 128: Whimsy as Rebellion
The Quiet Rebellion: Nature, Whimsy, and a World Gone Mad
Episode 127: True Partnerships in Education
From Co-Creation to True Partnership: Building Inclusive Educational Spaces
Episode 126: Decolonising Classroom UX - Co-Creation in Education
Decolonising Classroom UX: From Mandated Learning to Co-Creation
Episode 125: Autistic Employment in a Rigged Economy
The Orange Emperor’s War on Trans Lives: Policies of Cruelty and Distraction
Episode 124: Full Inclusion Classrooms
The Illusion of Inclusion: Systemic Failures Hidden Beneath Flawed Evidence
Episode 123: financial literacy - reclaiming economics from exploitation
Revolutionary Financial Literacy: Reclaiming Economics from Exploitation
Episode 122: Trans Identity as Both Origin and Destination
From Grey to Light: Trans as Origin and Destination
Episode 121: Dude, where's my Prado?
Freedom on the Road: What Mexican Cars Reveal About Innovation and Capitalism
Episode 120: The Lexicographer and the Fae
The Lexicographer and the Fae: Decoding the Myth of Autism
Episode 119: Capitalism, Neurodivergence, and Matristic Alternatives
Episode 118a: A Coronation Day Lament - Imperial Power and the Illusion of Democracy
A New Emperor Ascends: Executive Orders and the Illusion of Democracy
Episode 118: TikTok is dead. Long live TikTok.
Cyber Enclosures: How the Forced Sale of TikTok Mirrors Imperialism and Fuels the Surveillance State
Episode 117: Wear 'em down ...
Public Schools Under Siege: Corporate Messaging Masquerades as Journalism
Episode 115: What Slide Rules Can Teach Today's Students
Precision and Patience: What Slide Rules Can Teach Today’s Students
Episode 114: Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation: What an ABA Study from China Really Tells Us About Autism and Generalisation
Infinite Worlds Within: AuDHD Resonance in 'He Who Shrank'
Episode 112: Systemic Gaslighting Obscures the Facts About the Financialisation of Colleges
The College Debt Trap: How Autistic Students Are Exploited by the Financialisation of Education
Episode 111: IQ Scales and Reductive Autism Research
Who Does This Serve? Challenging the IQ Model in Autism Research
Episode 110: The Glass Bead Game of Life
Episode 109: Reserve Army of Labour
STEM Worker Surplus: A Capitalist Strategy to Suppress Wages?
Episode 108: How to counsel neurodivergent students about college and careers
Episode 107: Fossil Capitalism
Episode 106: Liberation, Self-Definition, and the Fight for Authenticity
Who Defines Us? Liberation, Identity, and the Fight for Authenticity
From Fiction to Reality: When Dystopia Meets Autism Research
Episode 104: Dude Where's My Dopamine?
Episode 103: Alexithymia in Classrooms
Emotions Unspoken: Why Behaviour Challenges Persist in Classrooms
Episode 102: The ECCA and the Privatising of American Education
Education for Sale: How the ECCA Empowers Corporations and Weakens Public Schools
Episode 101: Undreaming Wetiko
100 Episodes Later: Celebrating NotebookLM as a Game-Changer
Episode 100: Decolonising Mental Healthcare, Reclaiming Ancestral Wisdom
The Master’s Tools and the Therapist’s House: Decolonising Mental Health Care