Welcome to Spectrum Confessions.

I believe we are all doing our best to navigate and adjust during this transition to more equity, diversity, and inclusion, but how do we adjust to things that are unfamiliar or uncomfortable? How do we have a conversation if we are afraid of being inadvertently insulting or hurtful? 

It’s simple, take a look at my life. Here it is in full relief. Everything you need to know about people like me is laid bare before you in all its raw awkwardness. I’m brutally honest with myself and share prodigiously, i.e., I have no boundaries or impulse control, for which we can thank ADHD and childhood trauma.

I’m not going to pretend to have answers and, fortunately, I don’t need to, my life is all the cautionary tale any neurotype would ever need. Whether you are on the spectrum or off. 

Even that I cannot guarantee, if I’m being honest, life being what it is. 

It’s a good thing that stories about my life have always make people laugh. 

My aim is to be nakedly self-revealing in personal essays and relentless at finding the truth in the articles, in an effort to further the cause of radical acceptance.

What does that have to do with human consciousness, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and sexuality?

I’m glad you asked. Stay tuned.

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Welcome to Spectrum Confessions––nakedly self-revealing and deeply personal essays and articles that pull the curtain back on the nearly trillion-dollar autism services industry while 80%-90% of ASD adults hold degrees but are not employable.

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Uncanny Valley Girl (almost just like you) is the moniker I took up after recognizing my own lived neurodivergent experience in roboticist, Dr. Mori's description of Bukiminotani (不気味の谷), the uncanny valley. Visit my website: michelleespinosa.com