Autism as a catalyst

This is the twelfth post in my autism awareness month series. Over the past few weeks, I've described a lot of different things: a brain that gathers information constantly, a sensory system that doesn't filter, tasks that won't start without a valid reason, authority that doesn't register, friendships that fade without a maintenance impulse. These aren't separate quirks, they're expressions of the same underlying configuration. One way to understand that configuration is through what I'd call t