I — a person who functions on spiral time — am in the position of having to plan out a linear timeline involving three major, temporally overlapping, multi-step research and writing projects spanning from now until 2025, and boy oh boy is it doing my head in. Oh, the delicious irony of having to subject my autistic bodymind to neuronormative structures and expectations in order to get funding to write books on the damaging effects of neuronormativity on autistic bodyminds. I mean… that’s funny, right?