®Mx. Love C. Dialogos, LMFT · Buddhist Chaplain · They/Them
Clinical Writing
On neurodivergence, family estrangement, the intersection of identity and mental health, and the questions that don't resolve cleanly: by a queer, neurodivergent LMFT.
130 posts
Your ADHD Friend Is Closer to NT Than Autistic
An unmasked autistic person often expects ADHD friends to understand. ADHD social processing sits closer to neurotypical, and the demand for feminine-coded social performance comes with it.
The Filter Between Us (Short Version)
A parent with ADHD and an AuDHD adult child keep misreading each other. How the double empathy problem and a parent's origin story shape family repair.
The Filter Between Us: Neurodivergent Family Therapy for a Parent and Adult Child
A parent with ADHD and an AuDHD adult child keep misreading each other. How the double empathy problem and a parent's origin story shape family repair.
Neurodivergent Family Therapy: The Short Version
A 5-minute read on how a parent with ADHD and an AuDHD adult child misread each other, and what helps.
The Missing Stair (Quick Read)
The missing stair is a person a community works around instead of addressing. Why the whisper network is itself the problem. 3-minute version.
The Missing Stair: Why Communities Work Around a Known Problem Instead of Fixing It
The missing stair describes a person a community quietly works around rather than addresses. What the pattern does to the people it harms, and why the workaround feels like care.
Camouflaging and the CAT-Q (Quick Read)
Camouflaging comes in three kinds and they cost different things. The CAT-Q measures how much you camouflage. It does not diagnose autism. 3-minute version.
What Camouflaging Actually Is, and What Your CAT-Q Score Can and Cannot Tell You
The CAT-Q measures how much you camouflage; it does not determine whether you are autistic. What the three subscales assess, why the widely quoted cutoff is not in the original paper, and what to do with your score.
High-Control Religion: The Short Version
Leaving the beliefs is often the easier part. The self built to hold them takes longer to change. A quick-read primer on high-control religion and deconstruction.
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