Here’s what I got out of it. — The interior was adorned with disco balls and pops of hot pink, fushia, and bright green. Attendees and staff alike flounced around in ultra-trendy clothing, as Harry Styles played in the background — you just can’t miss those colorful blazers with matching trousers, 3-inch platform boots, and pastel nails. …

Trigger warning: anxiety — Whenever my brain is buzzing with cool content ideas, I feel a heightened sense of vulnerability. There’s a grim reaper besides my pile of unfinished manuscripts, sneering: What a promising future you have here. It would be a shame if I took it all away, wouldn’t it? There’s a lot…

What my life with a disability looks — and feels — like — It’s occurred to me that I haven’t really talked about what my day-to-day life is like, with my cognitive disability. Previously, I’ve made abstract, generalized statements about what I tend to do, without describing what this looks like in practice; I’ve said time and again that my disability makes me…

The real truth about my extreme social awkwardness — When I say that socializing can be harder for me because I think differently, some people take the statement literally and think that my feelings and my opinions must be so totally different from the people around me, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Perhaps what I should’ve…