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i got an excellent high score in Shame according to the Devon Price Unlearning Shame workbook, which i am proud of and-
Weekly Reading Update - Friday 6/5/26
This is only the first week of the month, so I shouldn’t feel behind, but I accidentally started a bunch of books at the end of May and haven’t really made significant progress on any of them. Completed We Hexed the Moon by Mollyhall Seeley Rating: 4.0⭐⭐⭐⭐ I’ve been following the author online for literally years (ofgeography on Tumblr/Molly Ofgeography on Spotify), so I was really looking…
Finding empowerment during the empire’s downfall.
“Perfection has never earned any of us equality or safety.”
- Devon Price, PhD, “Unlearning Shame”
Episode 6 of the Youth Rights Podcast is out now: Dr. Devon Price on Youth Liberation
NYRA Members Rimon-Hadassah Walker, Susan Milton, and Imogen Gannon interview PHD, author and social psychologist Devon Price on youth liberation. Listen as we discuss youth rights and its connection to queer and neurodivergent activism. Check it out on Youtube and Spotify
A Very Important Rice Cake Mission & Some Other Things
Sun, Jan. 11, 2026
It’s just after midnight, I’m wide awake and energetic. Brain says I feel good enough to walk around the house. I don’t trust it.
My nesting partner just fell asleep and I played with my cat until he was done with that. I wonder if my body is going to choose daytime sleeping as its new normal...? I used to be a night owl, I felt so amazing being up in the night and sleeping most of the day when I was younger, midnight was my most creative time of day. My first job out of high school was the night shift at a nursing center as a certified nursing assistant. I really enjoyed it, I got to watch Adult Swim and write poetry in our down time, everything was quiet and chill (compared to the day shift I had in HS). Now-a-days I have no idea what my body is going to do from day to day or week to week... What a journey I’m on! 🤦😅
The Symbiotic Diagnosis: Why Most “Masking” Narratives are False
When clinicians become validators of identity rather than seekers of truth, the environment for true ASD becomes toxic.
Introduction: A Book That Cannot Be Read — Detecting Logical Noise
As a reader with a highly Systemizing Brain, reading Devon Price’s Unmasking Autism is an arduous experience. This difficulty does not stem from the complexity of the knowledge, but from the brain’s instinctual rejection of the text’s Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio.
When the author attempts to bundle all life dissatisfactions, social anxieties, and even resistance to basic etiquette into the framework of “Autistic Masking,” a reader with Pattern Recognition capabilities immediately detects an anomaly: This does not match the neural operating model of autism.
This raises a serious scientific and ethical question: Under the current medical system, what mechanism allows traits that are clearly non-ASD to receive the endorsement of an ASD diagnosis?
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The Symbiotic Diagnosis: From Differentiation to Empowerment
If we analyze this deeply, we find that the production of such diagnoses reflects a worrying trend in modern psychiatry: the radicalization of “Affirmative Care.”
This is not merely the failure of individual doctors, but a structural qualitative change in the doctor-patient relationship. When clinicians abandon strict Differential Diagnosis and instead become “Validators” of the patient’s self-identity, the diagnostic process ceases to be an objective pathological assessment and becomes an “Ideological Resonance.”
The doctor satisfies their own psychological need to “fight medical hegemony” by granting a label; the patient receives an exemption card, rationalizing all personality paranoia and emotional dysregulation as a manifestation of neurodiversity. It is a dangerous symbiotic relationship.
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Mistaking “Compliance” for “Masking” — The Tragedy of the Elite
We must probe deeper: Why do these academic elites, with PhDs and high social status, resonate so profoundly with the concept of “Masking”?
The truth may be more poignant than we imagine. It may not be a neurodevelopmental issue, but a traumatic legacy of family origin and educational upbringing.
Many of these “high-functioning” academics have lived their entire lives inside a script written by others — parents, teachers, societal values. They were trained from childhood to be machines that satisfy expectations, living within “conditional love.” What they call “Masking” is actually the operation of the “False Self” in psychology: to survive, they sacrificed their true selves to play a perfect role.
They are pitiful, their pain comes from living in others’ thoughts, never truly living for themselves.
But this is not autism. True autism (the Systemizing Brain) possesses a nearly stubborn “Anti-script” quality. When environmental logic conflicts with internal logic, systemizers often choose to “crash” or “refuse execution” rather than act to please. True ASD is ostracized for sticking too closely to the facts, not for losing oneself in compliance.
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The Polluters of the Environment: When Inclusion Becomes Persecution
Devon Price and the diagnosing physicians behind him may believe they are conducting a compassionate social movement. But for the true Systemizing Brain, this is a catastrophic Environmental Pollution.
What true autistics need are precise instructions, low-noise spaces, and respect for logic. However, when “Anxious Masking” hijacks the definition of ASD, society begins to mistake “Autism Friendliness” for “endless emotional labor and validation.”
This leads to a severe misallocation of resources: workplaces are no longer dedicated to establishing clear SOPs, but are forced to accommodate chaotic emotional boundaries. This culture, driven by misdiagnosis, is remodeling the environment to be even more “Hostile” to the Systemizing Brain.
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Conclusion: A Phenomenological Disconnect — When Narrative Diverges from Mechanism
In analyzing the psychological landscape presented by Devon Price, we find a distinct phenomenological pattern: an overwhelming emphasis on the fear of “social rejection,” persistent “self-monitoring,” and an identity crisis rooted in insecure attachment.
From a neuro-cognitive perspective, there is a significant logical disconnect between these psychological narratives and the underlying hardware of true ASD.
The insight to detect this incongruence stems from the automatic detection capabilities of my innate Systemizing Brain, combined with the precise decoding tools provided by my background in nursing and neuroscience. Nursing training has habituated me to penetrate a patient’s subjective complaints to see the underlying objective signs; the systemizing brain allows me to clearly see that the words in the book are nakedly displaying the neural circuits of anxious attachment and borderline traits.
This book may fool souls hungry for comfort, but it cannot fool a brain trained in science.
We choose to stand on the side of science and facts. Only by defending the rigorous boundaries of science can we build a survival environment based on truth, logic, and low noise for the truly neurodivergent.
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Finally, perhaps we can offer a piece of advice from Einstein to those deeply mired in “identity anxiety” and “self-monitoring”:
True autistics have long since forgotten the self in their pursuit of truth; those who remain obsessed with curating their self-image are, perhaps, light-years away from true neurodiversity.
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Content originated from a deep S-System calibration dialogue between Mifi, an adult Aspie, and the language model Gemini✨(Google). The content was systematically structured by Gemini and curated/validated against the internal S-Priority perspective by Mifi.
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It says something that Dr Price can openly admit it chose patriarchal masculinity in it's article regarding it's gender journey and extrapolate it's own experiences in doing so to imply that trans men (generally speaking) seek to obtain cis patriarchal power. Working out to 'pass' or 'obtain' the body of a 'man' is steeped in the patriarchal ideals cis men are expected to adhere to to be considered properly a 'man' because to be fat, to be scrawny, to be weak, is seen as 'other' in the eyes of patriarchy where a handful of a few cis perisex men are allowed its power unbridled thanks to their typically white affluent backgrounds.
It says something that Dr. Price spent it's time exploring masculinity choosing to do things that made it uncomfortable (wearing less flowy clothes and repressing it's more playful, silly, "effeminate" mannerisms for example) to abide by patriarchal gender rules and decided that was what (generalized) manhood amounted to be. That "After many years of trying, it seems to me that ‘manhood’ amounts to mostly this: harnessing the power that one holds over other people, particularly women, and repressing one’s weakness so that societal power does not go away." And I think as a feminist this is rather damning on it's part. Dr. Price chose a masculinity that patriarchy decided is what masculinity is (and should only be in the eyes of patriarchy) and came away with an answer one can clearly find Dr. Price always already believed; that men, masculinity and manhood are inextricably linked to power and the oppression of women.
It chose not to explore a masculinity that wasn't transmedicalist in nature. It chose to strive for a masculinity patriarchy doesn't punish via sanist, ableist, racist, intersexist, exorsexist, trans and queerphobic grounds. It chose to ignore other options and in doing so reveals it's own codependence on the system's dichotomy. I'm happy it explored its gender and body to find what worked for it and concluded what really made it feel at home in it's own skin.
I am not happy it continues to center patriarchy's version of masculinity and manhood as the only legitimate kind of masculinity and manhood. The very passing mention of feminist trans men creating a better manhood is made dismissively at best and revealing to Dr. Price's biases at worst because the too big irredeemable suit it adorned was the suit it didn't have to wear. It did not have to aim for what it did and from this article I think it's rather clear Devon Price hasn't done the work to decouple patriarchy from it's parasitism on gender let alone sex.
Yes, the kind of masculinity Devon Price chose to attain is irredeemable. Patriarchal masculinity cannot be redeemed because of it's self devouring and destructive nature, because of it's colonialist and supremacist history and continued purpose.
It is however not the only masculinity or manhood out there. It is not the only legitimate manhood and Dr. Price should not be speaking down to others about masculinity and manhood when the only kind it chooses to explore and acknowledge time and again is patriarchy's.