Bix Dot Blog

There are 97 posts originally published at mediocreautistic.tumblr.com between August 2020 and February 2022. This set is complete.

Were I to title a post about Prime…

Jan 25, 2022
This is about occupational burnout but its premise…

Apr 19, 2021
Re: Greetings from The Fixin’ To

Apr 6, 2021
I’m catching up on research about being autistic…

Apr 4, 2021
This study made me think about the last…

Apr 3, 2021
My brain finally unlocked from it’s track of…

Mar 28, 2021
In case anyone out there is wondering how…

Mar 14, 2021
I just wanted to pull out for notice…

Mar 10, 2021
As near as I can recall, I’ve never…

Feb 28, 2021
L. M. Sacasas in January 2021: Last summer…

Feb 26, 2021
I just took a SPARK survey about sound…

Feb 24, 2021
I am trying to understand whether it would…

Feb 12, 2021
A week and a half ago, a week…

Feb 9, 2021
The message i just sent to the Kaiser…

Feb 8, 2021
Halfway through the course of antibiotics for (yes)…

Feb 8, 2021
So far my 2021 has been losing a…

Feb 3, 2021
I admit I believe in retail therapy. Does…

Feb 2, 2021
No: To accomplish these goals, he is repurposing…

Jan 28, 2021
Here’s a question: not long after my diagnosis…

Jan 26, 2021
No. It’s not at all a sign of…

Jan 26, 2021
This: Rates of trauma exposure and PTSD symptomatology…

Jan 25, 2021
Today’s random realization, via my remembering that autistic…

Jan 18, 2021
That feel when either you’re becoming “more autistic”…

Jan 8, 2021
I’ve got so much to say about this…

Dec 19, 2020
In all of the things I’ve read about…

Dec 15, 2020
I have to say, I don’t appreciate the…

Dec 12, 2020
I’ve been mapping out my self-care plan for…

Dec 1, 2020
They answered my question on how the hell…

Nov 29, 2020
It’s important to note that much of the…

Nov 24, 2020
Hot on the heels of that Australian review…

Nov 24, 2020
I don’t need to be celebrated. I just…

Nov 23, 2020
Am I the only one who read this…

Nov 22, 2020
Literally I was just yesterday talking about this…

Nov 21, 2020
This one paragraph renders the rest of this…

Nov 20, 2020
I know this is pinned already but I…

Nov 20, 2020
It would be unreasonable to suggest that housing…

Nov 19, 2020
This blog has a new subhed: Some of…

Nov 19, 2020
I find it unsurprising and disappointing that Camilla…

Nov 19, 2020
Oh god. A manifesto for Aspie Supremacy and…

Nov 10, 2020
Technology keeps showing people what it’s like to…

Oct 31, 2020
Colin Nagy describes yet another way in which…

Oct 27, 2020
I’ve been trying once again to nail down…

Oct 23, 2020
Today’s psychoconsult in part involved me explaining that…

Oct 23, 2020
What I recognize most in this piece is…

Oct 22, 2020
It turns out that being autistic itself seems…

Oct 18, 2020
This is a pretty good post by Erin…

Oct 18, 2020
Maybe because we finally talked about aphantasia and…

Oct 18, 2020
Today’s psychoconsult: why I visit the zoo (it’s…

Oct 16, 2020
So I don’t know if I’m becoming more…

Oct 11, 2020
I hadn’t realized that I’d quit Twitter and…

Oct 10, 2020
This one let me know early that I…

Oct 9, 2020
Mental health update from your Mediocre Autistic: I…

Oct 7, 2020
I’ve basically stopped blogging even autism stuff (at…

Oct 4, 2020
I’m struck by “looking around at all the…

Sep 11, 2020
Well, they got it partly right: yes, ditch…

Sep 11, 2020
Until a couple years ago, I was a…

Sep 10, 2020
Unlike most of the autistic people in this…

Sep 9, 2020
I’ve quibbles, but on the whole was impressed…

Sep 9, 2020
Yesterday’s low partly yielded to the infusion of…

Sep 9, 2020
Today I got low. I don’t even have…

Sep 8, 2020
In the “Skyscraper: Vanity and Violence” chapter of…

Sep 7, 2020
Today’s achievement: convincing myself I could interrupt the…

Sep 7, 2020
My quibble with this Autism in Adulthood commentary…

Sep 6, 2020
On the one hand, I find this study…

Sep 6, 2020
It’s interesting to read the suggestion of a…

Sep 6, 2020
My makeshift telehealth setup for today’s session with…

Sep 4, 2020
The search function here finally got unlocked, making…

Sep 4, 2020
I’d had it all worked out. Last night…

Sep 4, 2020
The new psychoconsultant emailed just to confirm all…

Sep 2, 2020
That paper on autistic burnout in the journal…

Sep 2, 2020
The downside of the exertion it takes for…

Sep 2, 2020
Here come the advance nerves over Friday’s telehealth…

Sep 1, 2020
Since part of tumbling an actually-autistic life is…

Sep 1, 2020
This thread by Ann Memmott about Controversial Therapies…

Sep 1, 2020
I’m confused about this study on whether “cognitive…

Sep 1, 2020
Today in User Friendly, I learned that B.F….

Aug 29, 2020
There are so many things wrong with the…

Aug 28, 2020
Today’s “proof of life” photo (not a daily…

Aug 28, 2020
Mostly I just want to tell people with…

Aug 27, 2020
What I don’t understand about this story—an update…

Aug 27, 2020
Sorry, not sorry: I’m obsessing over Eric Fombonne’s…

Aug 26, 2020
OSHU’s Eric Fombonne demonstrates in his July analysis…

Aug 26, 2020
The truly peculiar thing about Eric Fombonne’s curt…

Aug 26, 2020
C. M. Condo offers up something of an…

Aug 26, 2020
Couldn’t get out of bed until around noon,…

Aug 26, 2020
I’m digging around for a copy of this…

Aug 26, 2020
Today’s email from Portland’s own Autism in Adulthood…

Aug 26, 2020
Karen Costa explains why educators should not require…

Aug 26, 2020
It’s possible that the reason I don’t feel…

Aug 26, 2020
So, what the hell is this and why…

Aug 25, 2020
Eric Weiner’s defense of uncertainty reminds me of…

Aug 25, 2020
It’s just going to be stuck in my…

Aug 25, 2020
For whatever it’s worth, Eric Fombonne contributed to…

Aug 25, 2020
So, there’s this really frustrating piece on Spectrum,…

Aug 25, 2020
The authors of a new study in Pediatrics…

Aug 24, 2020
Peter Godfrey-Smith, in Other Minds, relates one bee…

Aug 23, 2020
Lord help me, that aggravating, myopic piece about…

Aug 23, 2020