Mandatory Sex Tapes w/ Some Vicious Mole

Of course autism diagnoses — of both the formal and informal variety — are on the rise, because at this point the primary diagnostic criterion for autism is “you annoy women.”

~Some Vicious Mole

This week I spoke with

Some Vicious Mole

about being autistic. Both in the clinical sense and the colloquial sense. Our conversation took place in response to his piece I Get It, which covers a broad swath of related material from the user experience of “being autistic” to the cultural ecology that finds the term useful.

While we cover many topics, one line from “I Get It” that immediately struck me was, “at this point the primary diagnostic criterion for autism is ‘you annoy women.'” As someone who annoys people with all kinds of genitals but especially big meaty vaginas, he had me hooked.

Topics discussed:

• Wearing neckties

• Being autistic

• How to keep bike lanes out of your neighborhood

• AP’s awkward first date story

• Women with low voices

• GF mommies who give vibes-based psychological diagnoses

• Sex tapes destroying your political career

• Why Matt Yglesias can't be a rabbi

• Title IX

  Let Men Beat Each Other Up Again.

• Hyperlexia, echolalia, eye-contact avoidance, sensory overstimulation, obsessive interests

• Hysteria

• Becoming predictable and legible

• Mansplaining vs. info-dumping

• Emotional intelligence

• Property Rights, Toilets, and the Way of the Dog

• Tiny women with big men

• bpd gf/autistic bf

• Getting confused for an alpha

• Asperger's

• Private vs. public speech

• Hasidic Jewish cultural practices

• Blaming a school of fish for the direction it's going

• Totalitarian Copacetics

• Michael Scott as unifying force