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Autism: Complete As We Are

The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.

For those who sense that truth is not what’s said the loudest—but what survives unedited.

What happens when autistic truth is told without translation? This episode steps outside diagnosis, explanation, or accommodation and enters the lived, rhythmic world of autistic embodiment—on its own terms. Through narrative fragments, sensory precision, and ethical refusal, we follow voices that don’t want to be explained. They want to be heard.

This is not about awareness or overcoming. It’s about neurodiversity as presence, rhythm, resistance. Drawing from thinkers like Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Carl Rogers, we explore the ethics of legibility, the damage done by misinterpretation, and what it means to speak in loops, silence, or signal.

This episode is not structured to explain autism. It is paced to be autistic. To speak, slowly. To arrive, precisely. To remain, whole.

Reflections

  • Autism is not a delay. It’s a different unfolding of time.
  • Refusal is not resistance to truth. It is a demand for it.
  • Being misread is not benign. It’s a kind of erasure.
  • Some truths do not survive translation. They must be held intact.
  • Communication is not sound. It is rhythm, pattern, signal.
  • The demand to “make sense” is often a demand to become someone else.
  • There is no such thing as non-communication. Only unreceived signal.
  • To be complete is not to be finished. It is to be uncut.
  • Why Listen?

    • Reframe autism as rhythm, embodiment, and relational truth
    • Explore how refusal, pacing, and silence speak powerfully
    • Encounter lived autistic presence as clarity—not lack
    • Engage with Fanon, Wynter, Merleau-Ponty, and Rogers on language, legibility, and embodiment
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        Bibliography

        • Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Grove Press, 2008.
        • Wynter, Sylvia. Selected Essays. Various Publications.
        • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Routledge, 2012.
        • Rogers, Carl. A Way of Being. Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
        • Bibliography Relevance

          • Frantz Fanon: Illuminates the political and racial stakes of being misread and overinterpreted.
          • Sylvia Wynter: Reframes the human as plural, contested, and beyond normative legibility.
          • Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Grounds perception in bodily presence and sensory truth.
          • Carl Rogers: Centers the relational ethic of unconditional regard and safe self-expression.
          • To be autistic is not to be lacking. It is to carry truth in a form the world hasn’t yet learned to receive.

            #Autism #Neurodiversity #CarlRogers #FrantzFanon #MerleauPonty #SylviaWynter #Embodiment #Communication #RelationalEthics #Presence #Refusal #TheDeeperThinkingPodcast

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