Neurodiversity - Quillette

‘As We See It’ and the Changing Discussion About Autism

The show frankly acknowledges issues frequently haunting persons on the autism spectrum.

Jonathan Mitchell

28 Jan 2022 · 6 min read

The Creeping Orthodoxy of the Neurodiversity Movement

Neurodiversity is on the right track, and I support the agenda as it builds upon the civil rights movement.

Bill Williams

3 Sep 2021 · 9 min read

When You’re Diagnosed with Autism—by TikTok

It’s notable that no-one on TikTok is diagnosing themselves with schizophrenia or severe personality disorders such as antisocial and borderline.

Lucy Kross Wallace

3 Aug 2021 · 9 min read

A Conversation with Daniel Elder, the Choral Music Composer Who Was Cancelled for Opposing Arson

If you’re willing to endure the painful trial of self, you will be better for it in the end. And, with enough of us, the world will be better, too.

Quillette

22 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

Teenagers are being told that puberty is a time for them to make decisions about sex and gender, this at a time when they have none of the life experience that would be necessary to make such existential choices.

Angus Fox

18 Jun 2021 · 16 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part VI: Asexuality, Intelligence, and the Trans Co-Option of Intersex Discourse

Puberty had been distressing and rough. He’d began to cut himself, and saw transition as a way out.

Angus Fox

7 Jun 2021 · 12 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part V: The Links Between Trans Identity, Gifted Minds, Categorical Thinking—And Anime

Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops.

Angus Fox

11 May 2021 · 17 min read

Gaslighting the Concerned Parents of Trans Children—A Psychotherapist’s View

I first met Jo and Carol in Manchester two years ago, when I spoke as a clinician on a panel at what is believed to be the first conference dedicated to the issue of detransitioners (people who once presented themselves as transgender, but then decided to live in accordance with

Stella O’Malley

4 May 2021 · 15 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part III: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

Gay men and women fought long and hard to be accepted for who they are, often battling reactionary bigotry in the process.

Angus Fox

12 Apr 2021 · 18 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part II: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

This isn’t to say that all causes of transgenderism are exogenous: the presence of neuro-atypical cognition comes up over and over, as does the sons’ process of discovering (or rejecting) their sexuality.

Angus Fox

6 Apr 2021 · 32 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

Many of the young men in question have, in moments of candour, hinted that their motivations for transition are unrelated to actual gender dysphoria.

Angus Fox

2 Apr 2021 · 11 min read

A (Failed) Campaign to Smear a University of Toronto Scholarship Student as a Bigot

The problem, he notes is that there is always going to be a required balance between our trusting inclination of accusations from an apparent victim, and everyone’s inviolable right of due process.

Michael Humeniuk

8 Feb 2021 · 12 min read

First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children

Individuals with a fragile ego structure also tend to be prone toward black-and-white thinking, which leads them to concrete rather than symbolic solutions.

Susan Evans and Marcus Evans

4 Feb 2021 · 16 min read

My Brief Spell as an Activist

I was on fire, and at the same time, I was fragile.

Lucy Kross Wallace

14 Oct 2020 · 14 min read

What Explains the Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology?

Instead of dispassionately inquiring into scientific questions, facts from politically controversial research are being distorted out of concern for how the data might be used by the worst among us.

Alex Mackiel

8 Apr 2019 · 19 min read