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Christian Gajewski

@christian.gajewski

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active: 2025-11-30 → 2026-07-11

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#autism ·17 #neurodiversity ·15 #psychology ·10 #mental-health ·9 #self-awareness ·6 #adhd ·4 #self-improvement ·4 #philosophy ·3 #science ·2 #late-diagnosed-autism ·1

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

Who Owns the Authority to Define Autism?

Uta Frith’s interview, 32 years of misdiagnosis, and the paradigm shift she cannot accept

May 30, 2026 · 7 min read · 668 claps paywalled #autism #neurodiversity #psychology

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

What If Alexithymia Is the Wrong Diagnosis? What Epiphanesthesia Corrects

The clinical framework describes what the autistic body lacks. It has not looked at what the autistic body does instead.

Jun 03, 2026 · 7 min read · 466 claps paywalled #autism #neurodiversity #mental-health

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

Four Decades of Shadow Flight. Jung and Crowley Showed Me the Door

On autistic metacognition, Jungian shadow work, and the recursive trap of using the tool that hides the shadow to find it.

Jun 17, 2026 · 11 min read · 404 claps paywalled #autism #mental-health #neurodiversity

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

The Autistic Diagnostic Manual for the Neurotypical Majority

Eleven minutes into any political debate, the prefrontal cortex files for resignation. I kept field notes.

Jun 24, 2026 · 6 min read · 363 claps paywalled #autism #neurodiversity #psychology

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

My Autistic Brain Uses Math to Make Friends (and Always Gets It Wrong)

How Bayes’ Theorem Explains My Loneliness

Nov 30, 2025 · 12 min read · 354 claps paywalled #autism #neurodiversity #adhd

My Autistic Brain Uses Math to Make Friends (and Always Gets It Wrong)

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CH Christian Gajewski · Invisible Illness

What My Operating Room Stim Taught Me About My AuDHD Memory

I spent years hiding a finger gesture in surgery. It was retrieving the information my working memory couldn’t hold.

Jun 03, 2026 · 7 min read · 294 claps paywalled #autism #mental-health #adhd

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CH Christian Gajewski · Invisible Illness

How a Novelist’s Method Wrote My 23-Page Medical Protocol

Low working memory makes every interruption costly. Randy Ingermanson’s Snowflake Method gave me the granularity to recover.

May 24, 2026 · 8 min read · 243 claps paywalled #autism #productivity #neurodiversity

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

How Two Greek Myths Named My Late Autism Diagnosis Grief

Hypnos and Thanatos articulated three dimensions of post-diagnostic mourning that nostalgia could not

May 13, 2026 · 15 min read · 231 claps paywalled #neurodiversity #philosophy #grief

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

What Neuroaffirmative Writing Misses About Autistic Survival

Jung, Cassidy, and the 8x suicide risk that neuroaffirmation leaves unnamed

Jun 10, 2026 · 7 min read · 228 claps paywalled #autism #suicide #psychology

What Neuroaffirmative Writing Misses About Autistic Survival

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

The Mask Nietzsche Taught Me to Wear Was Already on My Face

How I spent forty years reading an autism coping mechanism as a philosophical choice.

Jul 08, 2026 · 8 min read · 212 claps paywalled #autism #mental-health #psychology

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

11 Years of Listening Data. One Thing Alexithymia Misnames.

What eleven years of Apple Music listening data revealed about emotional memory formats the clinic never measured.

Jul 11, 2026 · 7 min read · 210 claps paywalled #autism #music #emotional-intelligence

11 Years of Listening Data. One Thing Alexithymia Misnames.

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

The Reason I Survive Spanish Bars Has Nothing to Do With Willpower.

An autistic adult on sensory overload, a bottle of cinnamon oil, and the two-phase regulation system that actually works.

Jun 28, 2026 · 6 min read · 210 claps paywalled #autism #mental-health #self-improvement

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

Bushido Named My Autism 38 Years Before the Clinic Did

A 1980s anime handed an alexithymic boy an honor code at ten. The clinic supplied the second name, autism and ADHD, at forty-eight.

May 27, 2026 · 11 min read · 206 claps paywalled #autism #neurodiversity #anime

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

How a Birthday Audit Tested Cialdini’s Reciprocity at 49

640 contacts, 8 replies, and the question Cialdini’s reciprocity could not answer.

May 20, 2026 · 8 min read · 174 claps paywalled #neurodiversity #autism #psychology

How a Birthday Audit Tested Cialdini’s Reciprocity at 49

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CH Christian Gajewski · Invisible Illness

Thirty Years I Spent Correcting My Autistic Vision

The darkroom was the first place I learned to suppress evidence.

Jun 24, 2026 · 7 min read · 167 claps paywalled #autism #mental-health #psychology

Thirty Years I Spent Correcting My Autistic Vision

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

My Autistic Brain Runs Four Steps Ahead in Every Conversation.

On anticipatory scripting, Jungian analysis, and the three things a therapist does that an autistic brain cannot do for itself.

Jun 15, 2026 · 9 min read · 145 claps paywalled #autism #mental-health #psychology

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CH Christian Gajewski · The Unexpected Autistic Life

The Truest Words About You Are Spoken Where You Cannot Enter

At 48, I read my own diagnostic backstage. The rule said I was not supposed to be there.

Jul 01, 2026 · 8 min read · 102 claps paywalled #autism #neurodiversity #mental-health