Neurodivergence

Living and working while autistic and ADHD: burnout, accommodations, masking, and the gap between what companies say about inclusion and what they practice.

Colored-pencil illustration of a small white clapboard country church at dusk under an orange and lavender sky. Its two wooden front doors stand wide open, and warm lamplight falls across rows of empty pews inside and down the wooden steps. On the steps sits a gift box wrapped in gold paper with a red ribbon and bow. To the left, a dirt road winds back through dry grass, and far down it a lone figure walks toward the church.

Series

Series · 1 parts

By Their Fruits

A gift blinds the wise. A generation watches the fruit. One man came home.

Editorial illustration: a man in a navy sweater sits back from his desk at night, arms crossed. On the desk, a printed implementation plan is covered in handwritten edits, crossed-out lines, and sticky notes, one asking which model. On the monitor behind it, a dropdown labeled MODEL is chained shut with a heavy padlock, stuck on one option.

Software

Keep Working on the Plan

Plan mode hooked me on Cursor. Now every new chat opens on Grok 4.7.

Oct 23, 2026

Colored-pencil illustration of a wooden table at dusk. A smartphone with a dark screen lies beside a large open Bible with a ribbon marker hanging over the table's edge. Above them a hanging lamp glows orange, and a pale moth flutters just below it. Through the window beside the table, birds fly across an open evening sky that fades from orange at the horizon to deep blue.

Religion

Ye of Little Faith

A four-minute phone call I put off for three days. Jesus had a name for that.

Oct 22, 2026

Colored-pencil illustration: a boy in pajamas sits cross-legged on his bed at night, a laptop of typed pages and wrestling title belts on his lap, looking uneasy. In the bright doorway, five smiling adults laugh and clap, their words drawn as one tangled black scribble above them. An overnight bag with a rolled sleeping bag waits by the door. On the wall above the bed hangs a theater mask still sealed in its plastic packaging.

Neurodivergence

You Don't Really Mean That

I said I did not want to go to the sleepover. People laughed it off.

Oct 16, 2026

Editorial cartoon: a man in a navy sweater reads a paperback in an armchair on a sunny porch, his phone face-down beside a cup of coffee. Through the window behind him, a giant glowing screen holds an endless stack of feed posts and a crowd of tiny people shouting and pointing. On a shelf in the foreground sits a glass jar labeled WAIT 24 HRS, full of crumpled paper.

Software

Sit On It

I left four social networks. On the one I'm building, angry posts wait 24 hours.

Oct 12, 2026

Colored-pencil illustration of a crowded, cheerful baby shower: pastel balloons, bunting, and a table piled with wrapped gifts, surrounded by smiling guests in conversation. Above their heads, their talk is drawn as one dense, tangled black scribble. In the right corner, a bearded man sits on a couch, smiling and petting two golden dogs, with a baseball game on the TV beside him. On a side table next to him stand three red soda cans and one blue one.

Neurodivergence

A Pepsi in a World of Coca-Cola

Our baby shower was full of love. To me, every conversation became one blob.

Oct 8, 2026

Editorial cartoon: a worn Cast Member ID badge hangs on a wall hook beside eleven service-star pins and tally marks counting eleven years; below, a cardboard box holds packed desk belongings including a mug reading Be Kind to Every Mind, unless it needs accommodations, while an office door stands ajar on a theme-park skyline at dusk.

Series

Series · 1 parts

Eleven Years a Cast Member

Eleven years at Disney, under all those posters. Ordinary management was enough.