The Cognitive Ecologist
A space for deep inquiry, radical insight, and reimagining systems through Exclusion Feedback Synpraxis (EFS), the Cognitive Ecology Model (CEM), and emergent social theories.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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Beyond Accommodation: A Liberation Philosophy of Human Difference
On legibility, permission, and designing for human variety.
I want to make something clear before I begin.
I Think I Know When a Meltdown Is Coming Now
My cat was annoying the shit out of me this morning.
Which was weird, because she wasn’t actually doing anything annoying.
She was trying to cuddle with me.
She kept getting close to me, and I kept moving her away. She’d come back. I’d m...
When Another Autistic Woman Becomes the Mirror
I ended Part One with a sentence I’ve had to learn the hard way: just don’t let strangers answer it for you.
I wrote that a while back. Since then, something has shifted — I’ve somehow become “popular,” if that’s what you want to call it,...
The Feminist Psychotherapist interviews the Cognitive Ecologist
Lavender Farm, Corbett, Oregon | August 2, 2026
A little while ago, The Feminist Psychotherapist invited me into a conversation about mental health, neurodivergence, feminism, self-care, and what it has actually looked like to learn how to...
The Intelligence I Learned Not to Trust
I talk a lot about hyperphantasia and about being a deeply conceptual thinker. My mind does not necessarily move from point A to point B in a nice, orderly line. It makes pictures. It makes relationships. It makes systems. One thing connect...
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The Cognitive Ecologist | Neurodivergent system builder | Author of Cognitive Ecology | Creating frameworks for deep feeling and adaptive sovereignty.
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