Libby Banks (is querying a therapy book)
@libbyiscomplex.bsky.social
Autistic therapist/author/thinker. Developer of a modality! LPC/LCDC/MA. She/They. Bisexual goofball. Elder millennial. Happily partnered to my AuDHD dreamboat. POTS/hEDS. http://www.libbyiscomplex.com
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- Leftist/elder millennial/autistic/chronically ill/practitioner-researcher/writer
- Happily partnered with my AuDHD dreamboat, @fuzzymac505.bsky.social
- Developed a radical therapeutic modality and writing a book - more info at www.libbyiscomplex.com
- Leftist/elder millennial/autistic/chronically ill/practitioner-researcher/writer
- Happily partnered with my AuDHD dreamboat, @fuzzymac505.bsky.social
- Developed a radical therapeutic modality and writing a book - more info at www.libbyiscomplex.com
Yesterday, I was thinking about my life online as a autistic psychotherapist. In my 5 years of sharing my thinking publicly, I've gone from "how I try to navigate a ableist system ethically" to "let's dismantle the mental health industrial complex and reimagine better together." Growth remains wild.
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Yesterday, I was thinking about my life online as a autistic psychotherapist. In my 5 years of sharing my thinking publicly, I've gone from "how I try to navigate a ableist system ethically" to "let's dismantle the mental health industrial complex and reimagine better together." Growth remains wild.
Wrote about body dysmorphic disorder and its global impact on my visual processing (among other things). CWs: body dysmorphic disorder, visual processing dysfunction, mental health misdiagnosis.
The Kenneth Effect: When Your Brain Sees Everyone Wrong
Content warnings: Body dysmorphic disorder, visual processing dysfunction, mental health misdiagnosis
www.libbyiscomplex.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Wrote about body dysmorphic disorder and its global impact on my visual processing (among other things). CWs: body dysmorphic disorder, visual processing dysfunction, mental health misdiagnosis.
New essay about pathological demand avoidance/pervasive drive for autonomy and friendship.
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/comet-frie...
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/comet-frie...
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
New essay about pathological demand avoidance/pervasive drive for autonomy and friendship.
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/comet-frie...
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/comet-frie...
Wrote about disenfranchised grief, disability, and neurodivergence today.
The Futures We Never Got to Mourn
CW: Childlessness, chronic illness, trauma
www.libbyiscomplex.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Wrote about disenfranchised grief, disability, and neurodivergence today.
3.5 months into writing essays/flash seriously, Smokelong Fitness gave me what I didn't know I needed: community that understands compression and takes craft seriously. Really grateful for this community workshop as someone who is geographically + professionally isolated.
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
3.5 months into writing essays/flash seriously, Smokelong Fitness gave me what I didn't know I needed: community that understands compression and takes craft seriously. Really grateful for this community workshop as someone who is geographically + professionally isolated.
I spent years labeling myself as "anxiously attached" until someone showed up consistently - then I ran. Turns out disorganized attachment can be a brilliant shape-shifter.
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-attach...
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-attach...
The Attachment Style That Hid from Me
Why I Couldn't Recognize My Own Avoidance
www.libbyiscomplex.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I spent years labeling myself as "anxiously attached" until someone showed up consistently - then I ran. Turns out disorganized attachment can be a brilliant shape-shifter.
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-attach...
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-attach...
Reposted by Libby Banks (is querying a therapy book)
US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
September 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
Reposted by Libby Banks (is querying a therapy book)
Here's the killer follow up question: Why?
Rollins: "It's Biblical - we've got to produce our own food. The president has talked significantly about the importance of onshoring our manufacturing. We also have to onshore our food. We have over the last decade begun to import more than we export, whether it's citrus or berries or even meat."
October 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Here's the killer follow up question: Why?
New piece on autistic pattern recognition, demand avoidance, and why some of us loop through every moral angle before choosing because we understand the cost of getting it wrong.
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/its-not-in...
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/its-not-in...
It's Not Indecision, It's Devotion
The worst place to have a crisis of morality is the candy aisle at 10:30 PM.
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September 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
New piece on autistic pattern recognition, demand avoidance, and why some of us loop through every moral angle before choosing because we understand the cost of getting it wrong.
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/its-not-in...
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/its-not-in...
In Agatha All Along, Lilia lives out of temporal order. Wrote about temporal displacement, gestalt integration, and permission to exist non-linearly. (CW: dissociation. Spoilers for Agatha All Along.)
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/living-lif...
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/living-lif...
Living Life Out of Order: What Lilia Calderu Teaches Us About Dissociation and Integration
Content warning: This essay discusses dissociation and dissociative experiences through the lens of a fictional character.
www.libbyiscomplex.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
In Agatha All Along, Lilia lives out of temporal order. Wrote about temporal displacement, gestalt integration, and permission to exist non-linearly. (CW: dissociation. Spoilers for Agatha All Along.)
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/living-lif...
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/living-lif...
Reposted by Libby Banks (is querying a therapy book)
Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.
We are stable parts of the human genome.
“Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species.”
—Carol Black, A Thousand Rivers
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
We are stable parts of the human genome.
“Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species.”
—Carol Black, A Thousand Rivers
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
Behold the Spectrum
Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.We are stable parts of the human genome.If you believe in a Maker, Maker built us in.Look to Maker and behold the Spectrum!If you don’t subscribe…
stimpunks.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.
We are stable parts of the human genome.
“Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species.”
—Carol Black, A Thousand Rivers
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
We are stable parts of the human genome.
“Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species.”
—Carol Black, A Thousand Rivers
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
RE: when chronic misattunement harms your internal scaffolding for connection/the double empathy problem and its aftermath.
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-cost-o...
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-cost-o...
September 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
RE: when chronic misattunement harms your internal scaffolding for connection/the double empathy problem and its aftermath.
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-cost-o...
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-cost-o...
My body knew I couldn't fully heal while my father lived. This isn't about blame; it's about how nervous systems wait for safety. A meditation on love, timing, and becoming who you always were.
CW: parental death, grief.
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-timing...
CW: parental death, grief.
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-timing...
The Quiet That Wasn't Vigilance
Filed under: grief logic and cellular loyalty.
www.libbyiscomplex.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
My body knew I couldn't fully heal while my father lived. This isn't about blame; it's about how nervous systems wait for safety. A meditation on love, timing, and becoming who you always were.
CW: parental death, grief.
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-timing...
CW: parental death, grief.
www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-timing...
For years I performed "writing voice" - translating thoughts into prose. Trauma recovery gave me something unexpected: the capacity to externalize cognition more accurately. My writing sounds like my thinking now, and I think part of that is increased authenticity as a result of safety.
September 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
For years I performed "writing voice" - translating thoughts into prose. Trauma recovery gave me something unexpected: the capacity to externalize cognition more accurately. My writing sounds like my thinking now, and I think part of that is increased authenticity as a result of safety.
New writing RE: "returing" from dissociation and the complexity of feeling more and more.
Some Days I Locate My Exit
CW: dissociation, complex trauma, chronic pain, embodiment struggles
www.libbyiscomplex.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
New writing RE: "returing" from dissociation and the complexity of feeling more and more.
New glasses after not having them for three months due to accidentally stepping on previous pair with a crunch = relief.
August 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
New glasses after not having them for three months due to accidentally stepping on previous pair with a crunch = relief.
Wrote about dissociation as protective reorganization rather than disappearance - how survival sometimes means not knowing until your system can handle retrieval.
The Library With the Lights Off
CW: dissociation/depersonalization, discussion of trauma survival mechanisms
www.libbyiscomplex.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Wrote about dissociation as protective reorganization rather than disappearance - how survival sometimes means not knowing until your system can handle retrieval.
#1 in the Power Rankings following the family Fantasy Football draft - I ended up being the champion last year because a game with rule-dense systems that reward pattern recognition is apparently very much my jam.
August 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
#1 in the Power Rankings following the family Fantasy Football draft - I ended up being the champion last year because a game with rule-dense systems that reward pattern recognition is apparently very much my jam.
What if the past isn't a trap but a blueprint you're still learning to read? New piece on memory's architecture for folks who build meaning forensically.
Rashomon Brain
CW: discusses trauma processing, dissociation, flashbacks (non-graphic)
www.libbyiscomplex.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
What if the past isn't a trap but a blueprint you're still learning to read? New piece on memory's architecture for folks who build meaning forensically.
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- Leftist/elder millennial/autistic/chronically ill/practitioner-researcher/writer
- Happily partnered with my AuDHD dreamboat, @fuzzymac505.bsky.social
- Developed a radical therapeutic modality and writing a book - more info at www.libbyiscomplex.com
- Leftist/elder millennial/autistic/chronically ill/practitioner-researcher/writer
- Happily partnered with my AuDHD dreamboat, @fuzzymac505.bsky.social
- Developed a radical therapeutic modality and writing a book - more info at www.libbyiscomplex.com
August 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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- Leftist/elder millennial/autistic/chronically ill/practitioner-researcher/writer
- Happily partnered with my AuDHD dreamboat, @fuzzymac505.bsky.social
- Developed a radical therapeutic modality and writing a book - more info at www.libbyiscomplex.com
- Leftist/elder millennial/autistic/chronically ill/practitioner-researcher/writer
- Happily partnered with my AuDHD dreamboat, @fuzzymac505.bsky.social
- Developed a radical therapeutic modality and writing a book - more info at www.libbyiscomplex.com
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NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...
www.propublica.org
August 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
I deleted my LinkedIn profile today, and my relief was immediate and palpable - I think continually seeing 15-year-old disability justice and mad studies concepts be reinvented by people trying to coin terms to sell trainings was wearing on me a lot, and so it was time to go.
August 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I deleted my LinkedIn profile today, and my relief was immediate and palpable - I think continually seeing 15-year-old disability justice and mad studies concepts be reinvented by people trying to coin terms to sell trainings was wearing on me a lot, and so it was time to go.
On being "difficult to care for" and co-creating a life with someone.
Someone Who Could Finally Take Care of Me
On being hard to care for, unmasking in mutual design, and what people see when it finally works
www.libbyiscomplex.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
On being "difficult to care for" and co-creating a life with someone.
New special edition piece: wrote a field manual about how to bill insurance while providing therapy that is congruent with being the practitioner I am.
Special Edition Field Manual: Practicing in the Gaps
Providing Radical Therapy While Billing Insurance
www.libbyiscomplex.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
New special edition piece: wrote a field manual about how to bill insurance while providing therapy that is congruent with being the practitioner I am.