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Last Modified: May 13, 2026

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This content is based in real history and personal experience, rather than being wholly fictitious, but it is written with creativity in mind above accuracy.

Its Alive and It Hates You

Category: [Essay] |
| Last Modified: May 13, 2026

I wrote a completely different version of this piece at the height of autistic burnout many years ago, and when we were prompted simply to “imagine your mind as a house,” I knew I wanted to revisit this piece. It remains one of my favorites of my own works of creative nonfiction, and …