Editorial Policy
Everything published here goes through the same process. This page describes it so the Team byline means something checkable rather than something anonymous.
How topics get chosen
We start from what people are actually searching for and what they are actually saying in public community discussions, then discard anything that falls outside what this site is for.
Discarded on principle, regardless of how much traffic it would bring:
- Diagnostic, screening, or self-test content
- Treatment, therapy, or medication guidance
- Material aimed at parents or institutions purchasing services, rather than at neurodivergent adults themselves
- Anything that depends on a member pool we do not have
How a page gets written
- Draft against a specific question a reader arrived with.
- Source check — every factual claim either carries a source or gets softened until it is only claiming what we can support. When there is no source, we lower the strength of the claim rather than invent one.
- Language check — an automated gate scans for framings this community has repeatedly said it does not want. See below.
- Publish, with the last-updated date reflecting real edits.
What the automated checks refuse
A page cannot be published if it contains:
- Assessment language — scores, results, severity levels, "signs you might be", or anything that infers a reader's identity from their answers
- Promises we cannot keep — guaranteed safety, guaranteed acceptance, or a member pool that does not exist
- Framings the community rejects — pathologizing, cure narratives, comparison to "normal" people, functioning labels, infantilizing language, inspiration framing, or telling readers they should stop masking
- Clinical overreach — diagnosis, treatment, scales, or therapy guidance
These are enforced by a script that runs before publication, not by memory. The check has its own test suite, including cases that must not trigger it — so that writing honestly about these topics remains possible.
Language we deliberately avoid
We do not use functioning labels. We do not describe autism or ADHD as a superpower, and we do not describe them as suffering. We use both identity-first and person-first language depending on context, because the community itself is split and neither side speaks for everyone.
If we describe an experience, it is either sourced or clearly marked as a composite illustration. We do not present invented anecdotes as real ones.
Updates and corrections
Pages are revised when the underlying information changes or when a reader tells us something is wrong. Substantive changes are logged on the corrections page. The updated date on a page reflects an actual edit — we do not refresh dates to look current.