Neurotypes are neither pathological nor adaptive in themselves; they’re living fossils, embodied memories of the environments that shaped us and the demands they imposed. Their survival, their persistence, tells a story whose details have been lost but for the person in front of you. Old worlds abide in my flesh. And in yours.
Survival Stories
- Survival Stories
- Fidelity to the Group Vs Fidelity to Reality (blue pill vs red pill)
- Scarcity -> Conflict
- WILL
- No…autistic people are not rigid thinkers.
- What IS domestication?
- Where does the real control begin? (How did we get from egalitarianism to building permits and marriage licenses?)
- Domestications V1.0 / V2.0 (hunter-gatherers / suburbanites)
- Why Wrangham’s Hypothesis is Hobbesian (again)
- Was Hobbes right? (and other holes in Wrangham’s narrative)
- Human Self-Domestication…selection against autonomy, not hot heads.
- Different Maps of Reality
- ramble (predictive coding, autism,simulation)
- The Cost of Food = A Seed
- “The Dark Ages” (a civilizational propaganda campaign)
- The sooner civilization collapses, the better.
- Tribalism, Consensus Reality, and Domestication
- What Wrangham Gets Wrong About Human Domestication
- I’m sorry.
- The Predictive Brain: Autistic Edition (or Maybe the Model’s the Problem)
- Social deficit? Or social defi…nitely-don’t-care?
- Human self-domestication, Pathological Demand Avoidance, and “self-control” walk into a bar…
- Domestication and the Warping of Sexual Dimorphism
- Domestication at the Top (When Wolves Build Kennels)
- The Great Culling: How Civilization Engineered the Modern Male
- The Genome in Chains
- Human Self-Domestication–Passive Drift or Violent Control?
- So what is “neurodivergence,” really?
- The Domesticated vs. The Wild
- Compliance vs. Resilence (to Incoherence)
- Is there such thing as a “baseline human?”
- The Civilizing Process IS Domestication
- What’s the “civilizing process,” really?
- Feedback Inversion
- What is “neurotypical” across living systems?
- The Double-Empathy Struggle
- No…autistic people don’t struggle with complexity.
- Is compounding error to blame?
- Is technology to blame?
- Is abstraction to blame?
- Stability Versus “Progress”
- Is civilization inevitable?
- Never-Ending Conflict
- Dominoes
- Nothing
- I Have Nothing of Value to Say
- Premises
- No Feedback = Dominance Hierarchy
- Civilization as a Process
- I’m “divergent” from WHAT, exactly?
- What We Did to the Dog
- Life as Pathology
- Letters to Family after a Late Autism Diagnosis
- My “Alexithymia” Isn’t What They Say It Is
- In Relationship with the World
- Fuck “Nature”
- I Can’t Express my Ideas Properly
- My Abyss
- Overstimulated by Bullshit
- Transitions SHOULD be hard (in this place)
- Masking: The Feedback That Lies Back
- The “Rise of Autism”: Diagnostic Inflation
Neurotypes are neither pathological nor adaptive in themselves; they’re living fossils, embodied memories of the environments that shaped us and the demands they imposed. Their survival, their persistence, tells a story whose details have been lost but for the person in front of you. Old worlds abide in my flesh. And in yours.
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Hi, sorry, yes, I deleted the reddit comment. It wasn’t because you didn’t reply, it was about me. I sent you a message on reddit.
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