AAHA CHAPTER 10: WELCOME TO AUTISTICA {Pre-release eBook}

Early Access to Chapter 10 of our New Book Exclusively for The Autistic Culture Podcast Sustaining Supporters

If you’ve made it this far, congratulations—you’ve crossed into something bigger than diagnosis. You’re not just Autistic. You’re part of a people. A culture. A history that was buried under decades of clinical coldness and stereotypes, but has always been there, waiting to be reclaimed.

This chapter isn’t about tests or trauma—it’s about belonging. It’s about throwing off the heavy mask and stepping into the world as your full, weird, wonderful self. We open with a concept borrowed from W.E.B. Du Bois—double consciousness—to frame the tension many of us feel as we juggle the person we are and the one the world expects us to be. But from there, we move into myth.

You’ll hear the origin story of our people—The Legend of Autistica—a rich, funny, irreverent, deeply affirming tale written by Matt Lowry, told by dragons, and passed down like all great cultural myths. It’s the story that helped me finally understand who I was, why I never fit, and what it means to come home to a place where I do.

You’re not a broken neurotypical. You are a Badass Neuroswan. And this? This is your invitation to Autistica—where the lights are softer, the questions are welcome, and the masks are finally, gloriously gone.