Engaging narrative confiction centering resilience through change within our body and the earth system.
Narrative nonfiction books put story at the heart of wisdom. It is through experience and story that we can share knowledge from one generation to the next, from one person to the next.
In the era of AI, it’s important to note that this book is more than intelligence, it’s wisdom - and that, cannot be done by Artificial Intelligence; it can only be done by human intelligence.
As such, I’d like to distinguish as an author what my AI policy is. I certify that no generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) was used in the final production of this book including all text, the title, the cover, design, or any art used. All of the text was written and iterated by the author without aid from artificial intelligence. AI was used as a by-product of google searches. Generative AI was used to brainstorm marketing strategies including substack article titles and short descriptors for each social media audience, podcast transcripts, and show notes. The substack articles are first written by the author, edited by the author, and uploaded to Generative AI with the prompt to help find a title and short description. The author edits AI titles, short descriptions, and show notes before final publication.
As the creator, author, and editor of all body text on the substack and in the book After the Masquerade, I do not authorize use of my writings in any artificial intelligence platforms. Doing so constitutes a violation of copyright.
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The way I see it, that’s an inevitable truth to who I am. Vulnerable authenticity is my dharma, it is foundational to who I am, it is my service to the world, and it is my righteous duty.
No matter what, I have to live with the burden and the weight of the truths in my life; if sharing that truth helps shoulder some of that burden for somebody else, then why not?
There is a Taoism proverb (and I wish I knew its reference, if you know please share!) that says that when you give something a name, it loses its power. And that's what my story is. It shines a light on the truth of the hardship of what it is to be underserved in the greater societal context.
The truth is that it absolutely does change the way that people interact with me, and it is vulnerable. The thing is that this way, I'm writing the story. I am empowered to claim my story. I'm done living other people's stories of me, not even believing my own reality. I believed that I was bad, when I knew it's not true.
I am not a bad person. I have a deep moral compass. In fact, people come to me asking for advice about what to do morally. This is actually a common strength of autism - the unabashed commitment to truth at any cost.
So, if people are afraid of my story and what it might imply about them, then that's healthy shame. Healthy shame is shame that originates from the choices that you make. Unhealthy shame is shame that has nothing to do with the choices that you make, it's superficial, it's what you were born with. It’s your skin, your hair, your brain - your DNA. Any shame you feel about those things, that’s unhealthy because guess what - you are not fundamentally wrong. You were born into this world no different from anybody else, just a bunch of cells trying to live and survive and reproduce. At the most basic level, that's what you're trying to do and that doesn't make you good or bad. What makes you good or bad are your choices. And it is a choice to uphold social constructs that rank some groups more worthy than others. There is no reason why we have to buy into them.
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