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Choose to Build Your Own Meaning Anyway: Beyond the Question of Usefulness

Part 7 of a seven-part series examining neurodivergence through the lens of usefulness. This article moves beyond analysis to response, arguing that when systems fail to produce belonging or meaning, the only viable path is to construct meaning deliberately. Drawing on lived experience, philosophy, and practice, it explores how to continue without resolution by building something that matters, rather than being defined solely by usefulness.

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When Autism Doesn’t Work: The Human Cost of the Question of Usefulness

Part 6 of a seven-part series exploring how neurodivergent minds are understood through the lens of usefulness. The previous articles examined this question from historical, economic, diagnostic, and structural perspectives. This article takes a different approach. It describes what that dynamic feels like from the inside when it does not work.

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