#TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery
A digital memoir about words, meanings, and feeling like an outsider amongst outsiders
Table of Contents
Prologue
Welcome to the PROLOGUE of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, a digital memoir about words, meanings, and feeling like an outsider amongst outsiders.
1. My Roman Empire
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.
2. A Battleground
Welcome to CHAPTER TWO of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about how my disability affects my day-to-day life.
3. Line of Best Fit
Welcome to CHAPTER THREE of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about how people have diagnosed different forms of autism.
4. "Currently"
Welcome to CHAPTER FOUR of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about my “working definition” of autism.
5. "By History"
Welcome to CHAPTER FIVE of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about my early childhood.
6. Charted Territories
Welcome to CHAPTER SIX of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about how I found out I was diagnosed with autism.
7. My First Attempt at Writing a Memoir
Welcome to CHAPTER SEVEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about how I grew an interest in writing.
8. Rearranging the Pieces
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.
9. The Pieces They Left Behind
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.
10. ROI (Release of Information)
Welcome to CHAPTER TEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about my struggle to control in high school.
11. Bury the Lede
Welcome to CHAPTER ELEVEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about how I started writing articles about disability in college.
12. It Depends
Welcome to CHAPTER TWELVE of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about my experience with medication.
13. How to Dig Your Own Grave
Welcome to CHAPTER THIRTEEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about struggling to relate to other people in college.
14. My Papers and Pens
Welcome to CHAPTER FOURTEEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about what my first time falling out with friends was like.
15. Might Have Been, Never Was
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.
16. Loaded Words
Welcome to CHAPTER SIXTEEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I talk about why I feel alienated by the growing conversation about “masking.”
17. Autism is When...
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.
18. Horseshoes and Hoofbeats
Welcome to CHAPTER EIGHTEEN of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, where I take a deep dive into different theories of autism.
Epilogue
Welcome to the EPILOGUE of #TechnicallyAutistic: Lessons from the Periphery, a digital memoir about words, meanings, and feeling like an outsider amongst outsiders.
