The argument everyone is having goes nowhere. A better question comes straight out of the CSO Framework™: is AI building this person’s independence, or borrowing it? Glasses versus training wheels, a two‑minute test, and why the human stays the decision‑maker in both lanes. Read the essay →
The companion to Let Them Be Uncomfortable. Stepping back is not the same as pulling the floor out. The difference between support and rescue is not the money; it is the trigger. What planned support looks like, and how to build it with them, not for them. Read the letter →
A letter for parents of neurodivergent young adults. Why the deepest form of love is watching them struggle and not stepping in, and what to say instead. Free to read and share. Read the letter →
The clinical question that produced the CSO Framework™ — and why so much of what looks like depression in neurodivergent young adults is actually autistic burnout, a system collapse rather than a mood disorder. Originally published in All Kinds of Therapy. Read on this site →
The complete clinical case for the CSO Framework™, practice‑derived and articulated for clinicians, coaches, and programs. The argument at its core: independence is not one thing. It is the convergence of three distinct layers — Capacity, Skill, Ownership — each assessed and transferred separately. When scaffolding is removed before all three are durable, the result is not independence. It is collapse. Fourteen Skill domains, a four‑stage Ownership arc, and the titration logic that governs movement across them. Built inductively from twenty years of clinical practice; the convergent literature follows. Read the whitepaper →
Executive function in neurodivergent young adults isn’t a motivation problem. It’s an access problem. Six domains where it breaks down — and what actually helps. Read the essay →
Ten seconds. Decades. Why shame and humiliation in social contexts imprint differently in autistic experience — and what it means for support work. Read the essay →
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria in autistic young adults: what it is, what it looks like in real life, and how a coaching relationship can hold it. Read the essay →
Eight senses, interoceptive disruption, and the sensory experience that shapes autistic daily life. Read the essay →
On building a parent-education program around three frameworks — Autism Goggles, SPACE, and Low & Slow — and why family‑informed coaching is more than a newsletter. Read the essay →
