https://nonstandardhuman.com Essays by Tabby Worthington on labels, defaults, and the strange confidence of people who never noticed the rules. en-us On capacity, task trees, and why seventy percent of the visible task is not seventy percent of the work. https://nonstandardhuman.com/the-70-problem https://nonstandardhuman.com/the-70-problem Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:00:00 GMT What Ted Lasso gets right about bias, blind spots, and being wrong about yourself. https://nonstandardhuman.com/ive-been-both-women https://nonstandardhuman.com/ive-been-both-women Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT Accessibility isn't merely whether I can get there. It's how much of myself I have to spend getting there. https://nonstandardhuman.com/a-small-font-a-big-barrier https://nonstandardhuman.com/a-small-font-a-big-barrier Thu, 30 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMT Unwritten rules, and the strange confidence of people who never noticed them. https://nonstandardhuman.com/the-handbook-everyone-else-apparently-received https://nonstandardhuman.com/the-handbook-everyone-else-apparently-received Thu, 30 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMT For some people, AI makes work faster. For me, sometimes it lowers the activation energy required for the idea to exist at all. https://nonstandardhuman.com/the-external-processor https://nonstandardhuman.com/the-external-processor Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:00:00 GMT Revisiting Thomas Diener's conflict framework, and the difference between synthesis and reconciliation. https://nonstandardhuman.com/non-standard-conflict https://nonstandardhuman.com/non-standard-conflict Sun, 01 Sep 2024 05:00:00 GMT Identity gatekeeping, bisexual invalidation, and the epistemic injustice of being told what you are. https://nonstandardhuman.com/who-gets-to-tell-you-who-you-are https://nonstandardhuman.com/who-gets-to-tell-you-who-you-are Thu, 14 Sep 2023 05:00:00 GMT Workplace accommodations and the burden of justification: why 'just ask' isn't the win it sounds like. https://nonstandardhuman.com/prove-something-hard https://nonstandardhuman.com/prove-something-hard Thu, 07 Sep 2023 05:00:00 GMT On strengths-based narratives, feline gut health research, and the receipt required for celebration. https://nonstandardhuman.com/beauty-of-deviation https://nonstandardhuman.com/beauty-of-deviation Thu, 31 Aug 2023 05:00:00 GMT Authenticity, social rituals, and the distinction between defaults and instructions. https://nonstandardhuman.com/breaking-free https://nonstandardhuman.com/breaking-free Thu, 24 Aug 2023 05:00:00 GMT What labels are actually for, and why 'non-standard' refuses the clinical frame. https://nonstandardhuman.com/disabled-becomes-non-standard https://nonstandardhuman.com/disabled-becomes-non-standard Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:00:00 GMT