You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.”
In another world, I write to you about special interests and solitude, of rumination and soft tees, of parenting and partnering with a nervous system born to be bubble-wrapped. In that world, I dissect memories and recast them here as alive and something like art. I hope to write you from that place soon. The world of niche and quirk and whimsy matters too. We deserve reels of Black men singing Natasha Bedingfield on tandem bikes and Taylor Townsend coming home to herself with a honey deuce and smile at the US Open.
