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Defiant is Coming (I got a #book contract)

Yeah. So. I won’t be self-publishing Defiant because it’s coming out through a proper press. They will also be taking Imaginary Friends when it is done on the blog, and we have a tentative deal worked out for terms for future Clay Dillon books as I devise them.

I know, right? Who would have thought we’d be here at the end of 2014.

I’ve been working this deal for a while, talking to various members of the wider neurodiversity community, getting to know academics, putting together Neuroqueer… and...

Chapter Twenty-One: Emergent Behavior (Imaginary Friends)

Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday(ish) (professional demands are causing sliding deadlines right now). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.

If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the Books page for ordering information for Nothing is Right, the prequel to this story.

CW: Parent/child violence. Both ways

“I tried it and I hated it so I am not going...

Chapter Twenty: Gang Up (Imaginary Friends)

Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday(ish) (professional demands are causing sliding deadlines right now). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.

If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the Books page for ordering information for Nothing is Right, the prequel to this story.

CW: This week's installment features homophobic bullying and undercurrents of family s...

Chapter Nineteen: Metal On Metal (Imaginary Friends)

Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday(ish) (professional demands are causing sliding deadlines right now). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.

If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the Books page for ordering information for Nothing is Right, the prequel to this story.

Kitty Dillon was waiting for her son when he arrived home from school. Clay could see...

Chapter Eighteen: New Routines

Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday(ish) (professional demands are causing sliding deadlines right now). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.

If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the Books page for ordering information for Nothing is Right, the prequel to this story.

After meeting Hillary for the first time, Clay seemed to find her everywhere.

She one o...

Chapter Seventeen: The Kindness Of Strange Children (Imaginary Friends)

Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday(ish) (professional demands are causing sliding deadlines right now). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.

If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the Books page for ordering information for Nothing is Right, the prequel to this story.

Clay Dillon wandered around on the playground, but he did not play. His head hurt too...

Spoken Word From Shaping Clay (#CRCon #Neuroqueer followup)

Sooooo.... today is Autistics Speaking Day. It's an important day for autistic people, a day created by activists in our community for the purpose of raising our voices and making sure that every conversation about us is with us. And I am just too tired to come up with an essay. That's hard for me to know, because this has been an important day for me for a couple of years now. I mean, I essentially started a new and transformative period in my life with last year's posts.

The fact is, though,...

Chapter Sixteen: Self-Restraint (Imaginary Friends)

Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday(ish) (professional demands are causing sliding deadlines right now). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.

If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the Books page for ordering information for Nothing is Right, the prequel to this story.

Content: Extreme sensory overload, sadism, masochistic awakening, interpersonal violen...

Chapter Fifteen: TV on the Playground (Imaginary Friends)

Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday(ish) (professional demands are causing sliding deadlines right now). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.

If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the Books page for ordering information for Nothing is Right, the prequel to this story.

“You came to school with a black eye. Did you have to fight your dad?”

Patrick's questi...

It's time to accept that they hate you

I'm not saying this to any one of us, but this is what comes to us,
being expected to be educating everyone in the way they find most comfortable
while they say we have deficits, we aren't eloquent, or we're dangerous,
it's the "acceptable" way of letting others know they hate us.
Most of us know this rhetoric and don't get tricked,
but somehow get outslicked by the sick twits with social wits
who bend their words to fit phrases like "calling ABA abuse is hate speech"
and we fall for it, argue with...