This wasn't specifically inspired by this recent day log, but it did get me started thinking about something that has been building for a while. Also, about something I can talk about here in a manner I couldn't on social media: the spread of "nueurodivergent" as an identity. I also apologize for the quotation marks, but I used them purposely: this is about the adaptation of "somewhere on the spectrum" as a simple phrase with its own connotations, not simply about being on the Autism spectrum.

First, a little history, not at all objective, but just as I have seen things developed, as a person born in 1979. When I was a child, the word "autistic" and the concept were unknown. Of course, I was a kid, but even most adults were probably not that familiar with the idea---and it was probably the 1988 movie Rainman that brought the idea of autism into the public consciousness. But that movie featured an autistic character who was almost totally non-verbal and also a genius

A non-literal Discordian perspective on the logic of cause and effect, emphasizing absurdity and paradox over indisputable fact.

"I mean, it’s Newton, right? What could go wrong? Plenty."
-- fool4luv

This law states: If something does not happen then the exact opposite will happen, only in exactly the opposite manner from that in which it did not happen. Or

Our story weaved in out of several towns and many years: 

so many layers

We did not follow a straight path of meet, join, disperse

it was/ is  more of a series of lines that converged then diverged 

In twenty years,  forty ?   

I am sure we will meet again

maybe just a chance meeting at a long closed suburban mall