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Lindsay Ayn, MS

@zamdanga.substack.com

(she/they) Writer/speaker/media producer focused on individual/collective trauma healing and neurodivergent self actualization. 🏳️‍🌈🎮🎲 Geeky and gay in PDX. 🔗 www.zamdanga.com

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Lindsay Ayn, MS @zamdanga.substack.com · 24/09/2025

Hah. Nice. (Finally reading Neuroqueer Heresies.)

Quote from Neuroqueer Heresies. "I’d like to propose that instead of rating human beings as “high-functioning” or “low-functioning,” we apply the terms “high-functioning” and “low-functioning” to societies, rating the functioning of a society according to the degree to which it succeeds in supporting and furthering the well-being of all of its members"

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Lindsay Ayn, MS @zamdanga.substack.com · 29/08/2025

Meet Baby Battle Buddy, my cartoon personification of my amygdala. He’s my body guard, but also a baby. I feel like if I picture this character every time I’m triggered, it’ll be easier to have compassion for myself. 😂 (Illustrated in Adobe Fresco, for whoever is curious.)

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Lindsay Ayn, MS @zamdanga.substack.com · 14/08/2025

At a street fair here in Portland I saw an adorable local business selling these hand-decorated pill cases. I reach a lot of ND folks who take meds so I thought y'all would enjoy seeing pill cases treated creativity as much as I did. Check out their shop. pilljoy.shop

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Lindsay Ayn, MS @zamdanga.substack.com · 30/07/2025

AI armchair sleuths are a new terror autistic people simply do not need.

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Lindsay Ayn, MS @zamdanga.substack.com · 27/07/2025

New life goal: Have a crew to play this game with.

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Lindsay Ayn, MS @zamdanga.substack.com · 22/07/2025

🚩Is Your Best Friend The Devil? A List of Red Flags🚩 Not sure if your friendship is toxic? Or if you’re the toxic one? This list might help. 🔗 zamdanga.substack.com/p/is-your-be...

"If you believe in someone who says they are capable of holding themselves accountable, but they never seem to hold themselves accountable to you, your brain concludes that you are the problem. They are taking the pain they are unable to process and passing it to you instead. That makes it abusive behavior, and unless you’re entrenched in a survival situation, you don’t need to tolerate it."

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Lindsay Ayn, MS @zamdanga.substack.com · 18/07/2025

"Don’t confuse compliance with satisfaction. Most people are socialized to smile through exploitation because saying no, even politely, might cost them their survival." open.substack.com/pub/zamdanga...

"If your customers buy trash and your team accepts crumbs, that doesn’t mean your trash and your crumbs are good enough. Not even if they appear grateful. Don’t confuse compliance with satisfaction. Most people are socialized to smile through exploitation because saying no, even politely, might cost them their survival."
Zamdangaimpact.substack.com

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Lindsay Ayn, MS @zamdanga.substack.com · 15/07/2025

I proudly stand in solidarity with my autistic neurokin, but we aren't a monolith! If it were up to me, our flag wouldn't be an infinity symbol. Obviously, it should be a dinosaur on a train! Notice the dinosaur is “on” the train, not “in” the train. We are a proud, literal people. 😁

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Lindsay Ayn, MS @zamdanga.substack.com · 23/06/2025

Recent events are making me remember this game. Much recommend.

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Lindsay Ayn, MS @zamdanga.substack.com · 09/06/2025

As I swiftly approach my 39th birthday come July, busting my ass on a writing career after my life and my brain have transformed entirely, this line from the first episode of Voyager is extra-strength hilarious!

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Lindsay Ayn, MS @zamdanga.substack.com · 09/06/2025

Since my "best friend" of 25 years put me in a psych hospital and was utterly indifferent to the mistreatment I experienced in said hospital, this exchange from Galavant sure does hit different!

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Lindsay Ayn, MS @zamdanga.substack.com · 09/06/2025

This is true and enraging. Confronting my toxicity cost me everything and the people who hurt me are just fine. My soul is grateful, but I can't hug my soul, nor can I use it to pay my student loans. If everyone made the same sacrifices, the world would be a better place, but no wonder they don't.

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