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The Mneurix blog — neurodiversity-affirming knowledge, translated for parents, builders, and knowledge workers.
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Am I autistic? A map without a verdict
An honest map of the adult question: what self-identification is and isn't, what assessment trades off, and what this site's tools can and cannot show you.
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Inside the Meltdown: What It Is While It's Happening
What an autistic meltdown is from the inside: the narrowing senses, language going offline, the body's own logic, the shame after — and what actually helps.
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Beside the Meltdown: For the Adult in the Room
What an autistic meltdown is, what helps in the minute, what never helps, and which quiet tools serve which part. For parents — no compliance framing.
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Unmasking and stress as competence: honest signals, real budgets, and taking the mask off slowly
Masking is skilled labor with a budget — shutdowns, short fuses and long crashes are the system doing its job. Unmasking is gradual, safety-dependent, yours to pace.
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Different minds in the age of average
AI is a regression-to-the-mean engine — the more it mediates, the more output converges on the modal. That makes genuine cognitive difference rarer and more visible.
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Monotropism, flow, and the real cost of context-switching
Autistic attention is narrow-but-deep, not a focus deficit. Context-switching costs are structural — workplaces that ignore them tax whom they claim to accommodate.
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The cluster nobody maps for parents: AuDHD, EDS, POTS, MCAS, ARFID, and PMDD as one picture
Five specialists for what is often one cluster — connective tissue, autonomic, immune, sensory, endocrine. An affirming parent map, honest about thin evidence.
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Autistic adulthood as infrastructure: employment, housing, and supported autonomy
Past the transition cliff, autistic adults fall into sparse, fragmented support — employment, housing, supported decision-making, autonomy the goal.
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The double-empathy problem lands in your pull requests
Autistic communication friction is bidirectional — both neurotypes misread each other. The fix is protocol design, not coaching the autistic person to mask.
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Race × autism: the diagnosis gap as a gatekeeping problem
Black and Brown autistic children are diagnosed later, misdiagnosed more often. A diagnosis is access, unequally gated — a gatekeeping problem, not a clinical fact.
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Sleep, sensory regulation, and the body clock
Top autistic research priority, yet sleep training treats it as noncompliance — when for many it's sensory and circadian. Sensory-first, honest about evidence.
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The accommodation tax is a myth: neurodivergent-first design helps everyone (and the honest cases where it doesn't)
Designing for neurodivergent users rarely costs the majority anything — mostly the tax is a myth. The honest version names the real tradeoffs, answered with options.