Essays on Purposeâ„¢
Some ideas don’t fit into a social media post.
These essays explore neurodivergence, expressive arts, identity, executive functioning, creativity, parenting, and belonging through a neuroqueer lens. Inspired by my work as a therapist and my life as a parent, they’re written for anyone curious about different ways of understanding ourselves, one another, and the communities we build together.
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Moon Time: Neuroqueering Time Blindness
What if time blindness isn’t a failure to perceive time at all? An essay about Concentric Time™, neurodivergent rhythms, and the limits of living by the clock.
Neuroqueering Executive Functioning
What if executive functioning isn’t just an individual ability—but something communities have always shared? A different way of thinking about support, accommodation, and belonging.
When Meaning Arrives Sideways
Not every conversation follows a straight line. This essay explores metaphor, tangents, creativity, and why many neurodivergent minds make meaning differently.
The Cherub and the Scorpion
A found sticker. A cherub riding a giant scorpion. A meditation on softness, armor, danger, transformation, and the strange vulnerability of becoming. The Cherub and the Scorpion explores what happens when we stop trying to conquer what frightens us and begin relating to it instead.
This collection is growing.
I write as questions emerge, conversations deepen, and new ways of understanding take shape.
This collection will grow alongside Different On Purpose.
Looking for more writing?
Explore more in the Books on Purpose collection, including excerpts from Executive Functioning is a Team Sport and upcoming children’s books.
Prefer poetry?
The same ideas, told through rhythm, metaphor, and imagination. Read-aloud poems about friendship, belonging, masking, creativity, and the ways we learn to carry one another. Written for wonderfully different children—and the grown-ups who love them.