Lindsay Ayn, MS
@zamdanga.substack.com
(she/they) Writer/speaker/media producer focused on individual/collective trauma healing and neurodivergent self actualization. 🏳️🌈🎮🎲 Geeky and gay in PDX. 🔗 www.zamdanga.com
Hah. Nice. (Finally reading Neuroqueer Heresies.)
September 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Hah. Nice. (Finally reading Neuroqueer Heresies.)
Meet Baby Battle Buddy, my cartoon personification of my amygdala. He’s my body guard, but also a baby. I feel like if I picture this character every time I’m triggered, it’ll be easier to have compassion for myself. 😂 (Illustrated in Adobe Fresco, for whoever is curious.)
August 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Meet Baby Battle Buddy, my cartoon personification of my amygdala. He’s my body guard, but also a baby. I feel like if I picture this character every time I’m triggered, it’ll be easier to have compassion for myself. 😂 (Illustrated in Adobe Fresco, for whoever is curious.)
At a street fair here in Portland I saw an adorable local business selling these hand-decorated pill cases. I reach a lot of ND folks who take meds so I thought y'all would enjoy seeing pill cases treated creativity as much as I did. Check out their shop. pilljoy.shop
August 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
At a street fair here in Portland I saw an adorable local business selling these hand-decorated pill cases. I reach a lot of ND folks who take meds so I thought y'all would enjoy seeing pill cases treated creativity as much as I did. Check out their shop. pilljoy.shop
AI armchair sleuths are a new terror autistic people simply do not need.
July 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
AI armchair sleuths are a new terror autistic people simply do not need.
New life goal: Have a crew to play this game with.
July 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
New life goal: Have a crew to play this game with.
🚩Is Your Best Friend The Devil? A List of Red Flags🚩
Not sure if your friendship is toxic? Or if you’re the toxic one? This list might help.
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Not sure if your friendship is toxic? Or if you’re the toxic one? This list might help.
🔗 zamdanga.substack.com/p/is-your-be...
July 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
🚩Is Your Best Friend The Devil? A List of Red Flags🚩
Not sure if your friendship is toxic? Or if you’re the toxic one? This list might help.
🔗 zamdanga.substack.com/p/is-your-be...
Not sure if your friendship is toxic? Or if you’re the toxic one? This list might help.
🔗 zamdanga.substack.com/p/is-your-be...
"Don’t confuse compliance with satisfaction. Most people are socialized to smile through exploitation because saying no, even politely, might cost them their survival."
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July 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"Don’t confuse compliance with satisfaction. Most people are socialized to smile through exploitation because saying no, even politely, might cost them their survival."
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I proudly stand in solidarity with my autistic neurokin, but we aren't a monolith! If it were up to me, our flag wouldn't be an infinity symbol. Obviously, it should be a dinosaur on a train! Notice the dinosaur is “on” the train, not “in” the train. We are a proud, literal people. 😁
July 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I proudly stand in solidarity with my autistic neurokin, but we aren't a monolith! If it were up to me, our flag wouldn't be an infinity symbol. Obviously, it should be a dinosaur on a train! Notice the dinosaur is “on” the train, not “in” the train. We are a proud, literal people. 😁
Recent events are making me remember this game. Much recommend.
June 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Recent events are making me remember this game. Much recommend.
As I swiftly approach my 39th birthday come July, busting my ass on a writing career after my life and my brain have transformed entirely, this line from the first episode of Voyager is extra-strength hilarious!
June 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
As I swiftly approach my 39th birthday come July, busting my ass on a writing career after my life and my brain have transformed entirely, this line from the first episode of Voyager is extra-strength hilarious!
Since my "best friend" of 25 years put me in a psych hospital and was utterly indifferent to the mistreatment I experienced in said hospital, this exchange from Galavant sure does hit different!
June 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Since my "best friend" of 25 years put me in a psych hospital and was utterly indifferent to the mistreatment I experienced in said hospital, this exchange from Galavant sure does hit different!
This is true and enraging. Confronting my toxicity cost me everything and the people who hurt me are just fine. My soul is grateful, but I can't hug my soul, nor can I use it to pay my student loans. If everyone made the same sacrifices, the world would be a better place, but no wonder they don't.
June 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is true and enraging. Confronting my toxicity cost me everything and the people who hurt me are just fine. My soul is grateful, but I can't hug my soul, nor can I use it to pay my student loans. If everyone made the same sacrifices, the world would be a better place, but no wonder they don't.