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Dispatches from the Autism Wars

A deeply unserious survey of neurodiversity and the wars waged in the name of autism

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  1. Issue · Sep 6, 2026

    Is AI Detection Software Biased Against Autistic Writers? (opens the original)

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    If you would prefer to listen to my presentation about this report, rather than reading it, I did a powerpoint presentation on my YouTube channel here: DisclosuresI’ve been a paid user of Pangram Labs for a while and I like their product. Pangram Labs gave me $80,000 in API tokens free of charge with no conditions and encouraged me to publish whatever I found regardless of the findings. They also sent me a hat, a bag, and some stickers.I reached out to several other AI Detection/Class

  2. Issue · Aug 2, 2026

    How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Mask (opens the original)

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    I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my handsAnd wrote my will across the sky in starsTo earn you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house,That your eyes might be shining for meWhen we came.~TE Lawrence, The Seven Pillars Of WisdomI’ve always been confused by the claim that masking starts in early childhood. As a child, I did not have the self-awareness for masking to even occur to me. I was a weird kid, and my mother, by he

  3. Issue · Jul 24, 2026

    Why do autistic people talk like anime villains? (opens the original)

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    Disclaimer: I believe it was said by a man of some import, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” On this topic, I would love nothing more than to throw stones, innocent of any of the blemishes which I describe. Sadly, I have several years of podcasts that bear witness to my intentionally muted but still very much present autism accent. So let me start this article by confessing that I have, at one point in my life, had most of these features in my voice, and to a large extent, I stil

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