Institutional Legitimacy™
Eva Redford“Normal” isn’t neutral. I explore neurodiversity, culture, systems, and human legitimacy, and what happens when we fall outside the standards society treats as normal.
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How Much of Autistic Disability Is Actually Autism?
This essay applies the Institutional Legitimacy™ framework to a question usually treated as settled: whether autism is a disability. The argument is not that autism cannot be disabling. It is that the medical model alone cannot tell us how...
What the Headlines Won't Tell You About Jason Arday
For most of a decade, Jason Arday’s life was told as one story: a boy diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at three, who Cambridge University’s own biography says was unable to speak until eleven or to read and write until eighteen, who...
How Society Excludes Autistic People by Design
This essay applies the Institutional Legitimacy™ framework to autism across education, employment, healthcare, public life, and relationships. Unlike my earlier essays, which examine these systems individually, this piece places them side b...
Neurodivergent Burnout: The Cost of Conditional Belonging
Institutions and relationships alike tend to measure belonging by a single, deceptively simple test: did the person remain.
If a neurodivergent employee kept the job, a student stayed enrolled, a partner stayed in the relationship, a perso...
Why Neurodivergent People Are Easier to Manipulate, Gaslight, and Harder to Believe
I. The Wrong Question
“Why do neurodivergent people attract toxic relationships” is a common question, and it is the wrong one. Attraction implies a pull: something in the person that draws harm toward them, a quality that, if corrected, w...
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