SAM Frida

We See Right Through You. There is a comfortable assumption many neurotypical people carry around without ever examining it: that because a neurodivergent person struggles to navigate your world, they must not fully understand it. That the social awkwardness, the...

I've been blessed and cursed with pattern recognition. I see things. I see people. I see the machinery underneath the behavior, the fear driving the cruelty, the ego filling the space where accountability should be. I've spent years trying to understand it, trying to...

Meta just cut ten thousand people. Not ten thousand positions. Ten thousand human beings. People who built systems, held institutional knowledge, maintained customer relationships that took years to cultivate, and carried in their heads the invisible connective tissue...

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There’s a video going around. A man throws a rock at a Hawaiian monk seal.Not just any seal. One of the most endangered marine mammals on the planet. An animal so rare, so protected, so woven into the identity of these islands that Hawaiians have a name for it:...

There’s quote circulating right now from applied neuroscientist Ashley Douglas: “Every time you say yes when you mean no, you’re training your nervous system through neuroplasticity.” It stopped me cold. Not because it’s new information, exactly. Most of us know,...

There’s a graveyard of unfinished diaries in my life, not because I had nothing to say but because I had too much, and no way out. My brain is rich. Complex. Fast. It makes connections across things most people hold separately. It feels deeply, thinks widely, and...