#TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery

A digital memoir about words, meanings, and feeling like an outsider amongst outsiders

Aug 08, 2023

Prologue

Aug 18

Welcome to the PROLOGUE of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, a digital memoir about words, meanings, and feeling like an outsider amongst outsiders.

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1. My Roman Empire

Asaka Mae

Sep 20

Welcome to CHAPTER ONE of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about the diagnosis that never quite fit and how it changed my life.

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2. A Battleground

Asaka Mae

Sep 20

Welcome to CHAPTER TWO of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about how my disability affects my day-to-day life.

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3. Line of Best Fit

Asaka Mae

Sep 1

Welcome to CHAPTER THREE of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about how people have diagnosed different forms of autism.

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4. "Currently"

Asaka Mae

Sep 20

Welcome to CHAPTER FOUR of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about my “working definition” of autism.

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5. "By History"

Asaka Mae

Sep 20

Welcome to CHAPTER FIVE of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about my early childhood.

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6. Charted Territories

Asaka Mae

Sep 1

Welcome to CHAPTER SIX of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about how I found out I was diagnosed with autism.

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7. My First Attempt at Writing a Memoir

Asaka Mae

Sep 2

Welcome to CHAPTER SEVEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about how I grew an interest in writing.

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8. Rearranging the Pieces

Asaka Mae

Sep 2

Welcome to CHAPTER EIGHT of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about how I started to question my diagnosis when I was fifteen.

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9. The Pieces They Left Behind

Asaka Mae

Sep 2

Welcome to CHAPTER NINE of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about what the adults didn’t understand when I began questioning my diagnosis at fifteen.

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10. ROI (Release of Information)

Asaka Mae

Sep 2

Welcome to CHAPTER TEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about my struggle to control in high school.

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11. Bury the Lede

Asaka Mae

Sep 9

Welcome to CHAPTER ELEVEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about how I started writing articles about disability in college.

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12. It Depends

Asaka Mae

Sep 9

Welcome to CHAPTER TWELVE of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about my experience with medication.

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13. How to Dig Your Own Grave

Asaka Mae

Sep 9

Welcome to CHAPTER THIRTEEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about struggling to relate to other people in college.

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14. My Papers and Pens

Asaka Mae

Sep 9

Welcome to CHAPTER FOURTEEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about what my first time falling out with friends was like.

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15. Might Have Been, Never Was

Asaka Mae

Sep 9

Welcome to CHAPTER FIFTEEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about the lasting psychological effects of dealing with issues that most people have never heard of.

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16. Loaded Words

Sep 2

Welcome to CHAPTER SIXTEEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about why I feel alienated by the growing conversation about “masking.”

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17. Autism is When...

Asaka Mae

Sep 17

Welcome to CHAPTER SEVENTEEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about why I’ve struggled to find a place in the autistic community.

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18. Horseshoes and Hoofbeats

Asaka Mae

Sep 19

Welcome to CHAPTER EIGHTEEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I take a deep dive into different theories of autism.

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Epilogue

Asaka Mae

Sep 20

Welcome to the EPILOGUE of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, a digital memoir about words, meanings, and feeling like an outsider amongst outsiders.

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Asaka Mae

#TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery

A digital memoir about words, meanings, and feeling like an outsider amongst outsiders

Table of Contents

Prologue

1. My Roman Empire

2. A Battleground

3. Line of Best Fit

4. "Currently"

5. "By History"

6. Charted Territories

7. My First Attempt at Writing a Memoir

8. Rearranging the Pieces

9. The Pieces They Left Behind

10. ROI (Release of Information)

11. Bury the Lede

12. It Depends

13. How to Dig Your Own Grave

14. My Papers and Pens

15. Might Have Been, Never Was

16. Loaded Words

17. Autism is When...

18. Horseshoes and Hoofbeats

Epilogue

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