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Wrong Planet / Right Mind: Dispatches from a Late-Diagnosed Autistic on Logic, Masking, and the Life Nobody Explained

Wrong Planet / Right Mind: Dispatches from a Late-Diagnosed Autistic on Logic, Masking, and the Life Nobody Explained

At 48, an autistic veteran and surgical technician dissects masking, sensory processing, and the architecture of meaning for minds wired differently.

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Christian Gajewski

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The Criterion Comes Before the Pile

Apophenia, Lego bricks, and the rule that separates detecting a pattern from projecting one

The Criterion Comes Before the Pile

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Oct 20

My Silence Wasn’t Guilt. It Was My Autistic Nervous System.

What actually happens in an autistic brain during an unfair accusation.

My Silence Wasn’t Guilt. It Was My Autistic Nervous System.

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Oct 13

Between Dexter and My Diagnosis, Twelve Wasted Years

A serial killer’s discipline turned out to be closer to my nature than any inner work I did to find it.

Between Dexter and My Diagnosis, Twelve Wasted Years

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Materia | Philosophy of Consciousness

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Oct 8

The Voice No One Else Hears Still Belongs to Shared Reality

Predictive neuroscience, Jaynes, and the Buddhist no-self on why the experience is real and its source needs proof

The Voice No One Else Hears Still Belongs to Shared Reality

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The Other Mind | Autism, Cognition, Identity

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Oct 6

How a Rehearsed Half-Smile Fixes My Autistic Jokes

Between two surgeries, silence isn’t empty. It’s where my sarcasm gets lost, or found.

How a Rehearsed Half-Smile Fixes My Autistic Jokes

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Oct 3

Why the 70% Communication Myth Collapses on a Contract’s First Page

A Catalan dictionary, a Babylonian law code and three ellipses show how the written page keeps what speech lets slip

Why the 70% Communication Myth Collapses on a Contract’s First Page

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Materia | Philosophy of Consciousness

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Oct 1

Heilung, Neural Crest Cells and the Norse Seer’s Trance.

A genetic mechanism, a dog’s gaze, and a shamanic rite measure the same shut threshold of consciousness.

Heilung, Neural Crest Cells and the Norse Seer’s Trance.

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The Other Mind | Autism, Cognition, Identity

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Sep 29

One of Seven Endless, Still the Loneliest: The Guilt Myth Lifts

What Dream of the Endless and Jungian amplification reveal about an isolation that myth can’t end, only absolve

One of Seven Endless, Still the Loneliest: The Guilt Myth Lifts

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Materia | Philosophy of Consciousness

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Sep 24

Sandman: The Sentence That Rewrites Its Author

On the self that collapses when it collapses someone else’s story.

Sandman: The Sentence That Rewrites Its Author

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Sep 22

Masking Never Caused My Silence. A Stranger Proved It.

Why situational mutism survives contact with a masking theory that was never built to explain it

Masking Never Caused My Silence. A Stranger Proved It.

Christian Gajewski

Christian Gajewski

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Research Scholar, RIIS 2.0. Autistic, twice-exceptional. Writing on consciousness and the mind.

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