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Donald Trump won the 2024 election, in a significant upset that will result in marginalized populations facing increased hardship and persecution of vulnerable groups, all while enabling a kleptocratic, authoritarian policies to spread. He has consistently made blatantly racist, queerphobic, and misogynistic statements, and is a profoundly spiteful person and

I'm now a published author in a peer reviewed journal, where I describe a framework I developed of autistic social advocacy skills, and how to use TTRPGs to teach them. Read more here.

One of the most effective tools I have in my repertoire is a fun activity, or themed group even, called GM Academy.  While most of the groups I run are focused around simply playing a TTRPG, GM academy puts that all aside and focuses on something else- Running games. Participants

Here's me talking about my history growing up autistic and how I used D&D to find friends, and turned that into a career. Podcast: Autism Stories | Autism PersonalCoachAutism Stories and Info Dump Files are podcasts created by Autistics and highlight Autistic voices.Autism PersonalCoach

I spoke at the American Psychological Association's Annual Conference in Seattle on supporting autistics in working in mental health with Dr. Lucas Harrington of the UW Autism Center, with a focus on social skills facilitation in D&D. Check out a brief video of my part of the presentation!

I recently watched the show Silo, and really liked it. But, it also got me thinking about the Silo-ification of the autism world. Silo-ification, as far as I'm aware, isn't a real word, but it helps with this point, and is honestly very much present in a lot of different

With Pride month starting, I want to talk about something that is really important in understanding and supporting queer autistics- the concept of autisexuality. Reflecting on my lived experience as a bi/pansexual, and how as I've accepted my autism diagnosis and learned about autistic culture, the concept of autigender/

A bit old news, but wanted to just celebrate the passage of the Nothing About us Without us, HB 1541, which states that any committee, task force, or work group pertaining to disability (or other population) have an individual with lived experience in that realm. While this has massive implication

Youtube is another tech giant pushing against adblockThis is a slight departure from the usual articles about RPGs and autism, but as there is a lot of RPG content online, and internet accessibility is needed to make it a space for neurodivergent individuals to exist, this is an important issue

A few months ago, I was hired on at Behavior Bridges, an autism clinic in Puyallup, Washington, as their Inclusion Director. While the largest part of my work there is running their various geek centric groups (mostly tabletop gaming and D&D), my official title is inclusion director, and a

First, apologies for not posting in a while, my PC was down and things were just hard to get done during that time. But- I wanted to share a clip from the talk I did with Dr Amelia Herbst at the American Psychological Association's Annual Conference in Washington DC, where

I recently wrapped up my final session of my D&D autism community building groups for the quarter, and I asked the students for feedback. It was largely positive, but when I framed it as ideas on what other GMs should do, they were able to provide a lot of