I think it was the red house in 2021 that really got me into embracing autism as an identity politic. Like similar artists trying to make it big, you don’t want it all to be about neurodiversity. Neurodiversity runs rampant in the art world and people will try to push you into thinking that things like “developmental disability doesn’t matter to a professional art practice, you should keep quiet because you’ll be stigmatized.” So in other words, they want me to risk my mental health not embracing who I am as an artist. Such violence, and look what type of stuff that could make:

I’m confident enough to say it’s powerful for sure, to use such vulnerable states, but it’s also not healthy.
Kentucky along with other regions have a problem. And I believe they try to be inclusive but I don’t think they do enough to understand neurodivergent processes be it art-making, career tasks or both. The audience is performative for neurodivergent artists. The majority of artists never sell enough to make a living from their work and it’s even worse when artists like myself never sell work for 6 years or more. Is it the artist? I don’t think so.