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The Indie Game Renaissance When Small Teams Make the Most Human Games Something happened in game development that nobody fully predicted. As major studios grew larger, spent more, and produced games o...
Read article →How Neurodivergent People Navigate a World Designed for Different Brains The office has an open floor plan because it was supposed to encourage collaboration. The conference call starts with five minu...
Read article →The Man Who Finally Talked What Breaks Through Male Silence Men die by suicide at roughly four times the rate of women in the United States. They are dramatically underrepresented in therapy waiting r...
Read article →ADHD Medication Shortage When the Pills That Help Become Unavailable For millions of people with ADHD, stimulant medication is not a convenience — it is the difference between functioning and not. Whe...
Read article →The Nostalgia Industry The numbers from recent years tell a story that is not subtle. Remastered video games from the 1990s and early 2000s consistently outsell original new titles in the same release...
Read article →Loneliness Is Not Shyness They get conflated constantly. Someone describes a person as lonely and the listener pictures a person who is awkward in social situations, who does not know what to say, who...
Read article →The Confession Culture Online Before the internet, you told a secret to someone you trusted, and the risk was that they would tell someone else. The secret stayed in your community, in your social net...
Read article →Autism and Aging The research on autism and aging barely exists. This is not an exaggeration. For most of the history of autism as a clinical category, it was understood primarily as a childhood condi...
Read article →Neurodivergent and Parenting The child melts down in the grocery store. The lights are fluorescent and the sounds are compounding and the transition from home to errand happened too fast. A neurotypic...
Read article →The Gamer Who Went Offline The first week was bad. He had played games every evening for eleven years — since before he had a full-time job, before his marriage, before the kids. The controller had be...
Read article →Sports as Male Emotional Proxy The man who cries at the championship game but not at his father's funeral is not a stranger. He is familiar enough to be a cliché, and clichés become clichés because th...
Read article →ADHD and Chronic Lateness The meeting was at 10. You knew this. You planned to leave at 9:30. At 9:15 you were ready, which was unusual, and you felt briefly good about it. Then you thought you would...
Read article →Autistic People and Animals The horse does not ask you to make eye contact. It does not expect a greeting that follows a particular script, or an expression that matches the emotional valence of the c...
Read article →ADHD and the Transition to Adulthood At eighteen, the scaffolding disappears. The schedule that was built by someone else — the bell that signals the next period, the parent who checks the homework, t...
Read article →The AI Friend Is This What We Imagined Before the products arrived, there were the imaginings. Science fiction had been working on the question of artificial companionship for decades — what it would...
Read article →The ADHD Brain at Rest Most discussions of ADHD focus on the state of activity: the fidgeting during a meeting, the difficulty starting a task, the lost train of thought mid-sentence. What receives fa...
Read article →The Gamer Who Became a Teacher When Marcus left his job at a logistics company to become a high school history teacher, his colleagues were puzzled. He had spent fifteen years playing strategy games a...
Read article →The Loneliness That Looks Like Busyness There is a particular kind of lonely that does not announce itself. It does not arrive as a long evening staring at the ceiling. It arrives between a 7am meetin...
Read article →The Debate Has Real Stakes The question of whether ADHD is overdiagnosed sounds like an academic dispute. It is not. The answer has direct implications for whether millions of people receive care they...
Read article →The Setup That Makes It Worse You know you are smart. This is not arrogance — it is a conclusion drawn from evidence. You have succeeded academically, professionally, intellectually. People have told...
Read article →When a Man Partner Is His Only Confidant There is a particular kind of relationship that looks, from the outside, like devotion. A man who calls his partner first for everything. Who recounts the day'...
Read article →What Isolation Does to a Living Brain The brain does not experience social isolation the way it experiences other forms of deprivation — as a steady decline. Research suggests the response is faster a...
Read article →What the Research Actually Shows Autism and romantic relationships have been studied from the outside for much longer than they have been studied from the inside. The earlier literature tended to char...
Read article →The Archetype That Will Not Die Long before Joseph Campbell systematized it, the chosen one story was operating. One person, marked by fate or circumstance, is called upon to face a challenge no one e...
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