Devon Price

Chicago

Freelance Writer at Freelance

🇵🇸🏴📚Author of the books Unmasking Autism, Laziness Does Not Exist, and Unlearning Shame.

Articles

Maybe You’ll Never be Happy. But You Can Be Interested.

2 weeks ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

Finding meaning in an ordinarily unhappy life. Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist. You can submit questions or suggest future entries in the series via my Tumblr ask box, or you can email questions to askdevonprice at gmail.
How Commercialization and Assimilation Shook the Queer Community

3 weeks ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

A retrospective on Daniel Harris’ The Rise and Fall of Gay CultureI picked up a copy of Daniel Harris’ 1997 book The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture at an estate sale a few summers ago. Nestled on a shelf alongside self-published gay locker room erotica, original edition Beanie Babies, Robert Mapplethorpe photobooks, and dusty mosaic glass knickknacks, the book instantly pulled me into a world that I only got to inhabit with the dullest of proto-queer consciousness.
Wait a second, is shame just a lack of power?

1 month ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

When you recognize that you don’t have status or influence, it affects your self-concept — and your social behavior. I have been writing about shame for years now: where it comes from, how it operates physiologically, the various roles that it has played culturally and historically, evolutionary theories about the function it serves, the impact it has on fights to remedy systemic issues, and of course, a whole wide span of thinking about how an individual might overcome it.
Be jealous. Make demands. Want more.

1 month ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

Here’s to a passionate, fully human nonmonogamy where things aren’t always fair and people are needy. Though every relationship in my adult life has included periods of nonmonogamy, I have never really identified myself as a nonmonogamous or polyamorous person. My reasons for this are numerous, and not very enlightened. I do not know that I would describe my general pattern of being in nonmonogamous relationships a part of who I am, or a reflection of my true relationship goals.
I just came out as trans. Why am I suddenly so angry?

1 month ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

Imagining a better life can make you hyper-aware of all that you’re missing. A newly-out trans man living in a highly conservative and gender-repressive environment just wrote in, wondering why coming out to himself has suddenly made him so damn angry. Let’s discuss:(Note: Anon uses the phrase TMA to describe his girlfriend, which stands for transmisogyny-affected. Trans women are TMA; cis women, cis men, trans men, and nonbinary people who are not trans feminine are TME, or transmisogyny-exempt.
Honest Communication Kills Weaponized Incompetence

1 month ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

It’s only human to need help — but we have to be able to admit it. Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist. You can submit questions or suggest future entries in the series via my Tumblr ask box, or you can email questions to askdevonprice at gmail.
“Diagnosis is a Privilege”

2 months ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

In the wake of RFK Jr’s Autism registry, is it really? “Diagnosis is a privilege.”How often have you heard an Autistic adult who came into that identity later in life use those words? I hope that RFK Jr’s plan to create a registry of all diagnosed Autistic individuals settles once and for all how much this is not the case. The choice to access a diagnosis is a privilege.
Why I used to “hate” kids.

2 months ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

And what those feelings actually meant. It is child liberation month here on my blog, where we’ve been talking a lot about abolishing the family as a system that owns children, abolishing age as a determinant of who gets to have rights, and the need for us all to take on the collective responsibility of looking after children. We’ve also been exploring some of the common barriers that keep people from taking child liberation seriously.
It’s okay if child liberation & family abolition make you uncomfortable.

2 months ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

Ask questions, acknowledge your feelings — these are the growing pains of a radically new idea. I remember that I first encountered the concept of family abolition on Tumblr when I was about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, and that it made me massively uncomfortable. To remove the system of protection and nurturance that guide a young child’s life seemed to me to create a horrifying vacuum of meaning, into which absolutely anything could climb and take advantage.
Interact with Minors

2 months ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

Member-only storyAgainst the collective neglect of the young. Devon Price·Follow30 min read·--An adult mental health influencer refusing to engage in polite, public chit-chat with a minor. When I was in fourth grade, I made an America Online account. The handle I chose for myself was Batlover4, because I wanted to be a bat biologist when I grew up, and I was in the fourth grade. I started frequenting AOL’s game review community, the Antagonist Game Network (or ANT for short).