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Making Peace with My Depression’s Complicated Legacy

Hi, I have a Patreon now! If you like my writing and would like to see more of it (including my poems, essays about art and culture, and…

8 min readApr 7, 2024

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Making Peace with My Depression’s Complicated Legacy

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OCD’s Morality Mind Games (And How I Manage)

Hi, I have a Patreon now! If you like my writing and would like to see more of it (including my poems, essays about art and culture, and…

7 min readFeb 23, 2024

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OCD’s Morality Mind Games (And How I Manage)

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Practicing Meditation and Mindfulness While Neurodivergent

Hi, I have a Patreon now! If you like my writing and would like to see more of it (including my poems, essays about art and culture, and…

5 min readFeb 2, 2024

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Practicing Meditation and Mindfulness While Neurodivergent

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Queer Unhappiness and Self-Imposed Respectability

Hi, I have a Patreon now! If you like my writing and would like to see more of it (including my poems, essays about art and culture, and…

5 min readJan 2, 2024

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Queer Unhappiness and Self-Imposed Respectability

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Survival in 27 Stanzas: A Collage Poem

Hi, I have a Patreon now! If you like my writing and would like to see more of it (including my poems, essays about art and culture, and…

2 min readDec 18, 2023

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Survival in 27 Stanzas: A Collage Poem

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Announcement: I Have a Patreon Now!

Hello dear friends,

3 min readDec 4, 2023

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Announcement: I Have a Patreon Now!

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AJ Tanksley

Dealing with Unwanted Advice when Autistic

I hate advice, and have been very vocal about it for a while. Unfortunately, this hasn’t stopped me from being on the receiving end of many…

6 min readNov 23, 2023

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Dealing with Unwanted Advice when Autistic

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In Defense of Sex Negativity

This article is part of the series “Sex, Love, and Connection on the Spectrum,” in which I explore sex, intimacy, and bonding through a…

7 min readNov 12, 2023

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In Defense of Sex Negativity

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Cleaning Dog Kennels is Keeping Me Alive

How volunteering at an animal shelter gave me a will to live after a stay in the psych ward

3 min readOct 27, 2023

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Cleaning Dog Kennels is Keeping Me Alive

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The Pebble-in-Shoe Model of Autistic Overwhelm

When I was in college and became more seriously involved in autism activism (if “ranting about neurotypical ignorance on Facebook” counts…

6 min readSep 21, 2023

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AJ Tanksley

AJ Tanksley

A lifelong learner and poet, AJ (they/she/he) writes about the intersection of neurodiversity, mental health, spirituality, and identity.

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