HeyJaredAutism: Pathologically Genuine
I infuse humor & profundity in writing drawn from my life as an autistic, award winning professor, provost, dean, & VP Researcg officer who successfully navigated academe, supports student mental health, & loves evolutionary biology & ecology.
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Pathologically Genuine Draft of Chapter 1: A Banana Slug in the Mojave Desert. (opens the original)
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Chapter 1: Banana Slug in the Mojave Desert- Jim ColemanI read the words, “Shame on you for hiring a crazy provost who is under psychiatric evaluation.”The sentence hit me like a soft paint ball shot out of an assault rifle. A color I had never seen before exploded all over the place. I felt some pain somewhere in my psyche. But at first I was just stunned and dumbfounded and said to myself “Where did that come from and what the heck was it?” Eventually the color faded as the hurt grew strong en
Draft of Chapter 2.Phylogenetic Tree- Inheritance from death (opens the original)
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This piece was completed a day before what would have been my dad’s birthday. That seems apropos. This is a revision of a previous draft that was driven by working with a craft coach for a bit. I won’t give out his name since I have no idea if it is any good. For me, it was exhilarating to write with what I thought was great guidance by the coach. I am happy to share his name if you would like.For those that haven’t read anything else- Chapter one is a story about
Pathologically Genuine Draft of a New Chapter 3: Inheritance from Life-The Maternal Side. (opens the original)
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It is quite interesting how much I have learned about myself and the book as I write. I am not sure if this chapter is working, but it fits in the progression of the first 4 chapters which discovered themselves as I wrote.Chapter 1 — Who am I? Why has my life felt like I am a banana slug that got dropped into the desert without the adaptations to thrive? Someone accused me of being crazy. Am I?Chapter 2 </sp
Pathologically Genuine Draft of Chapter 4: Birth (opens the original)
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I had a happy childhood and did not feel like a banana slug in the Mojave Desert. I got transported to the desert later.Nonetheless there were harbingers of future challenges starting when I was about three or four years old. These clues felt random at the time. It took more than fifty years for me to understand they comprised patterns that would show up throughout my entire life.I banged my head as a baby and continued through most of my non teen years. I’d bang my head against a pillow, the ba
Pathologically Genuine Draft of Chapter 5 (more like 4.5): The Birth of Coping. (opens the original)
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In chapter 4, I discussed quirks that developed that started to show difference. Originally, I was planning to move into my happy childhood with new traits appearing in chapter 4, setting the stage for a negatively transformational move from Pittsburgh to Connecticut.Yet, I am very emotionally tied to stories I had written previously about vending machines, dogs and stuttering. Those were originally written as self-contained essays, so I wasn’t quite sure where to place them.In thinking about th
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