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Michelle Mahoney
@michellemahoney.bsky.social
Neurodivergent Activist, Writer, Educator, Disability Advocate.

Author of Strange Fellow Bobby: The Neurodivergence of Robert F. Kennedy, Sr.

Substack: michellemahoneyautisticadvocate.substack.com
You might appreciate what my French 2 kids did a decade ago.
December 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
It has been called to my attention that non-Autistic people don’t necessarily understand what’s going on here. He’s personifying the shoes and thinks they should take turns going first to be fair to the *shoes*, not his daughter.
November 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
All of my great grandparents were gone by the time I was born (which is odd because I’m the eldest grandchild on both sides and my mom was a teenager still when I was born). Here’s my great-grandma Letha, though.
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Pretty sure I took a pic of that cat’s grandma on my last trip to Pompeii.
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It’s the dad(who was Autistic)I’m writing about, not the gross one.
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I write about RFK the elder, so it’s mostly “cool necktie, bro”.
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Oh, my…same. Substack is the worst for this. Surely they have “find the faces” technology for automatic thumbnail generation. But no, we’re going to show you the middle section of the image and only the middle section.
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Kansas has always been more purple than we get credit for. We’ve elected Democratic governors about half the time since basically forever. Kelly’s not an anomaly. We usually flip flop whenever a governor is term limited or someone leaves for DC.
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
First, this isn’t liberals eating their own. This is disabled people pointing out that there are some things you are not getting as a holder of power in a system that still shuts us out.

Also, accommodations don’t work the way you think they do. That office doesn’t just hand them out on demand.
When Evidence Isn’t Enough: Why Universities Refuse Autistic Access
Revolutionary Optimism in the Age of Refusal
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think that getting white supremacist tattoos should result in immediate dishonorable discharge. No excuses about not knowing what it was. He knew full well. If the military can carefully police natural hairstyles, they can stop looking the other way for this.
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Part of Disability Justice is having accessibility built into the ways you educate. Giving accommodations (which disabled people have to jump through endless hoops to get and spend more energy on than you can imagine) after purposely making something inaccessible that doesn’t have to be is ableist.
October 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM