The Unread Personal Blog as a Vital Disability Accommodation

Special interests are the most easily depathologized facet of autism, but they can still make one's life more difficult than it needs to be. Recently, a friend's reputation suffered because he spent four hours nonconsensually telling his coworkers about anime. I could regale you with many similar stories from my adolescence, but that would unearth many deeply cringeworthy memories, and I can't do that on a worknight. When you're obsessed with something, you will compose monologues about it. You can repress them for awhile, but -- sooner or later -- they'll get the better of you. Words will pour from your mouth of their own accord, like tongues from a Pentecostal adept. If you aren't careful, you'll recite a treatise on fire extinguishers to the baddie in psychology class. Ideally, you'll be able to exchange such speeches with receptive friends -- this is the ideal form of social interaction. But that it not always possible, and even the most compatible friends sometimes want to do…