Friday chatter: Time Travel
Neurodivergent folx are often said to experience time differently than other people (or, in the case of ADHD, for time not to be real at all). This week...
Million-Year Elegies: On Deep Time and Trauma
When we think about dinosaurs, we think about trauma. Maybe not immediately, maybe not consciously, but the association is there. We think about large,...
Friday chatter: monsters
This week we talked about monsters, and dinosaurs as cultural examples of monsters. What are some of your favorite monsters?
Dinosaur (Monster) Culture
I recently read Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)," a foundational work in the study of fictional monsters and their role in human...
Friday chatter: special interests
What’s one way that your special interests have enriched your life recently? What do you wish neurotypicals knew about special interests that they often don’t?
Katie the Ceratosaurus
Like many children, neurotypical and otherwise, I spent a lot of my early childhood obsessed with dinosaurs. I don't remember how it started. It could have...
Friday chatter: Imagination
I’ll always remember a passage in a Tony Attwood book that I read as a teenager, laying out a set of four different autistic coping mechanisms - one of which...
Everything Is True: An Introduction
(If you’re getting this email and you don’t recognize the blog name, don’t panic! You’re probably one of my old Mailchimp subscribers. I’m migrating my...
Autism, writing, and the world through a speculative lens.
Welcome to Everything Is True by me, Ada Hoffmann. Spec fic writer, poet, autist. They/them. Author of the Outside series. Sign up now so you don’t miss the...
