To start from the beginning
✶ Mythos & Memory
Sher Griffin December 22, 2024
Hello, Done is an autoethnobiography—a raw, recursive, and intimate account written during the transformative process of discovering my autism.
About a year into my recovery, I had a realization so visceral it had to be spoken aloud. I wrote a post about addiction—not as a moral failing or personal choice, but as the product of social conditions. At the time, research hadn’t yet caught up to the truth that social determinants of health play a foundational role in behavioral health outcomes. But I knew. I knew from my gut, long before any citation told me I could.
That’s the thing about intuition—it often precedes proof. And historically, when women knew things they “shouldn’t,” they weren’t praised. They were burned.
Centuries later, we weren’t burned at the stake, but we were pathologized. Women who expressed emotion, intensity, or spiritual insight were labeled with “hysteria,” subjected to cruel treatments, or institutionalized altogether. And while society has evolved on paper, the shadows of those systems remain. When I speak with clarity now, when I challenge status-quo narratives about trauma and addiction, I still hear echoes of the old witch hunt—only now the flames are lit with questions like, Where’s your research?
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