Category: QuietHalf Notes
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Message to Neil
If this letter landed somewhere familiar, you’re not alone. One-way friendships drain neurodivergent people faster than most. Subscribe to my Substack channel for writing that names the things polite society pretends not to notice, from a psychologist who has stopped pretending
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Author’s note
From my ‘in-progress’ latest book: *** Author’s note This book was co-written with Claude, an AI made by Anthropic. I am telling you this in the first pages rather than burying it in an acknowledgements section because transparency about how a book was made seems more respectful to the reader than hoping they don’t notice,…
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The Fifteen-Month-Old Brain
Note for Letters from the Quiet Half The Fifteen-Month-Old Brain I’ve been neurodivergent for sixty-seven years. I’ve understood I’m neurodivergent for fifteen months. Which means my relationship with my own brain is barely into toddlerhood. Still figuring out what it needs. Still getting it catastrophically wrong on a regular basis. Yesterday someone suggested to me…
