I’ve made futile efforts to apply what measure of logic I can to the Trump administration’s gravely misinformed, recklessly regressive claims about autism over the last few months. In 2023, I created a podcast titled Dreaming Different to explore a future designed around the power of neurodivergence. Even when it isn’t buttressed by misinformation and invective, ableism shames and isolates. But it’s such a pervasive part of our daily language and social norms that it can be hard to avoid—including as a disabled person. My own shows up as guilt over not being “productive enough” by hypercapitalist standards or “normal enough” to fit into a social setting.