#AutisticAF Out Loud

RFK Jr.’s autism claims aren’t about helping anyone—they’re about deciding who gets to exist in America.

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Chapters:

0:00 Cold Open + Promise 0:45 RFKjr’s Agenda vs the Facts1:52 Name the Ag...

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I just saw Trump disbands Congress. For all intents and purposes, the US government isn’t just shut down—Trump has effectively rendered Congress useless and substituted his own personal will for governance.

00:00 Cold Open + Promise 00:25 “Disbands Congress” Now 01:43 Soft Authoritarian Playbook ...

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Trigger Warnings: Trump Disbands Congress

Sources:Democracy Now!

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“Scary Precedent”: GOP Blocks Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva from Taking Seat Amid Epstein Files Fight

Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election for a House seat in Arizona two weeks ago, has still not been sworn in to Congres...

👉A live reading from the Amazon book, “every clock is a handgun pointed at my head.”

What You’re About To Watch

A quick, sharp destruction of the “autism as superpower” narrative that’s everywhere in neurodivergent spaces. No superpowers. No kryptonite. Just the messy, explosive, delightful reality of being autistic without the costume drama.

These 60, live seconds cut through the inspiration porn... and all that other ‘you’re so bra...

Video Summary

A cinematic spoken word piece that cuts through decades of family silence with surgical precision.

Set against the Heaven's Gate cult tragedy and Hale-Bopp comet of 1997-98, this hybrid performance follows three wintry family gatherings where religious expectations collide with neurodivergent reality.

Watch what happens when an autistic adult finally stops performing "normal" at the dinner table - and pays the price.

This...

Content Note: Sexual abuse, family trauma, therapy processing, strong language, intense emotional content

Video Summary

This live piece cuts to the bone of what trauma recovery actually looks like. When your brain works differently. And your body never forgets.

What happens when you finally see yourself clearly in a therapist's mirror?When rage becomes the only honest response to betrayal? When family protection fails and the body bec...

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Content Note: Strong language, neurodivergent struggles, communication barriers

Video Summary

A raw piece that captures what it feels like to be autistic and ADHD at 71—trying to communicate through the static...

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Content Note: Strong language, mental health struggles, time anxiety

Video Summary

A live piece that cracks open what it really feels like to be autistic in this world.

No sanitize...

Someone wrote me: "These knocked me sideways... I spent so much time as an undiagnosed autistic girl, wondering if I was the alien dropped among the normies."

This is "A Swirl of Flesh-Colored Fog." Living truth. Autistic style.

👉 VIDEO: A Swirl of Flesh-Colored Fog - 6:01

I can't see faces. When I try to remember someone - even my wife - I see what I call "a swirl of flesh-colored fog."

This piece is about wanting to be friends. Abou...

Thanks to everyone who tuned in! Free or paid subscribers? Join me for my next live video in the app. Gonna be a Trigger Warnings kinda take on old men with their fingers on THE Button. This week…

Here’s my speaking script from this live performance. Close to a transcript, but I changed a few lines on the fly… some even on purpose.

Today I’m talking family, friends, love… not known as autistic “superpowers.” So let’s start with a qui...

👉 YouTube Video of this live spoken word performance

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Cold Open

I feel like a brilliant creative soul

as if…

trapped in a damaged body

& neurology

trying to communicate with the world

through an intermittently short-circuiting transistor radio

playing through static

& the distortion

& sparking circuits…

to just be heard.

Do you understand at all what I mean?

Intro

You're listen...

Cold Open

I just heard the duly-elected President of these United States... Donald J. Trump... brag about dropping the atom bomb. On Hiroshima.

My god.

Steven Colbert? Jon Stewart...?

Once, these guys were subversive... were daring. But...

But with troops still in the California streets and missiles in Mid-Eastern air...

Haven't comedians become nauseatingly... tone dead?

When the Comedy stops being funny…

We're in deep shit. Especially an...

Cold Open

You wanna pathologize me? Knock yerself out. Faithfully counting every leaf marked "deficit"…

But missing the whole damn forest we know locally as "Survival."

[Doc? You Got Us All Wrong, Pt 1: Autistic Resilience]

Intro

You're listening to AutisticAF Out Loud. One voice. Raw. Real. Fiercely Neurodivergent. Since 1953.

Season 5, Episode 5. “Doc? You Got Us All Wrong, Pt 1: Autistic Resilience.”

Deficits… or strengths? Survival… o...

Cold Open

CBT…? Never worked for autistic me.

So, look, we KNOW masking doesn't work. Or FEAR. Or PAIN. We’re dying from them already.

That's all the words we need.

[Music]

Intro

You're listening to AutisticAF Out Loud. One voice. Raw. Real. Fiercely Neurodivergent. Since 1953.

Season 5, Episode 6. “Doc? You Got Us All Wrong, Pt 2: CBT…? Never Worked for Autistic Me.”

Abelist agendas. Bad research subjects. Bad data. Bad therapy.

There’s th...

Cold Open

You wanna pathologize me? Knock yerself out. Faithfully counting every leaf marked "deficit"…

But missing the whole damn forest we know locally as "Survival."

Intro

You're listening to AutisticAF Out Loud. One voice. Raw. Real. Fiercely Neurodivergent. Since 1953.

Season 5, Episode 5. “Doc? You Got Us All Wrong, Pt 1: Autistic Resilience.”

Deficits… or strengths? Survival… or thriving? Pathology… or inborn, natural autistic beh...

Cold Open [into silence]

Friend, I haven't done this before. Usually I talk autism & neurodiversity with you. But I'm very concerned about events unfolding this weekend...

I've seen these patterns emerge before. In other countries. Authoritarian countries¹.

I have no plan of action to suggest. It's happening too fast for me to process… in my slow, deep AuDHD² way.

All I could think to do… is share my concerns with friends who care.

[Mus...

Cold Open (into silence)

You love Dune? Like me?

Frank Herbert is dead... wrong.

Fear is NOT the mind-killer. Denial is.

[Music ]

Intro

You're listening to AutisticAF Out Loud. One voice. Raw. Real. Fiercely Neurodivergent. Since 1953.

Season 5, Episode 5. Attacks on neurodivergence, facing our fears, finding our strength. Today we're talking threats, resistance, and the power of a hundred million voices. Just one autistic elder's truth. ...

Cold Open

I was not born to be pitied. I was born to raise Hell. Autistic style.

Intro

You’re listening to AutisticAF Out Loud. One voice. Raw. Real. Fiercely Neurodivergent. Since 1953.

Season 5, Episode 4. Breaking mirrors, dancing at the edge of noise, raising autistic hell. Autism, Neurodiversity, 3 Poems... and 3 Rando Manifestos. Just one autistic elder's truth. I'm Johnny Profane.

Content Note: trauma, sexual assault, self-harm, ...

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Transcript:

Autistic Spoken Word: Every Clock Is a Handgun Pointed at My Head

This spoken word on my autistic experience of time contains triggering topics. If you are sensitive to f...