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Fergus Murray

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‘Biological male’ is a pseudoscientific dogwhistle

The BBC should be better than this.

Dec 26, 2025

Screenshot of the BBC’s ‘Make a Complaint’ page. The text can be found at the link given.

Dec 26, 2025

Autistics on Autism

What everyone — especially professionals — needs to learn from autistic communities

Apr 2, 2025

A bookshelf full of books by autistic writers — I’m not up for typing up the full list, sorry! If anyone would be up for doing it for me and sending it over, I’d love that.

Apr 2, 2025

Weirdwashing

Capitalism & Non-Conformity; Co-option & Commodified Quirks

Mar 15, 2025

From Monty Python’s The Life of Brian: the crowd chants “yes, we’re all individuals!’

Mar 15, 2025

Understanding Others: Other Minds; Strangers

I’ve recently finished three nonfiction books, and without particularly planning this, I realised that they complement each other very…

Jan 18, 2025

Understanding Others: Other Minds; Strangers

Jan 18, 2025

Autism ‘Symptoms’ are no such thing

Why the framing of autistic characteristics and behaviours as ‘symptoms’ is misleading, harmful and helps nobody

Jan 16, 2025

Four silicone-covered magnets in different shades of green, with different surface textures.

Jan 16, 2025

Neurodiversity and Science

Is neurodiversity scientific? It’s an interesting question, which perhaps hasn’t received as much attention as it deserves.

Jan 6, 2025

Neurodiversity and Science

Jan 6, 2025

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Electing ‘None of the Above’

Abstention-Based Sortition: a tonic for electoral malaise?

Aug 21, 2024

Pie chart of election results showing No Vote on 40.3%, Con on 14.4%, Lab on 20.4%, Lib on 7.7%, Reform on 8.8%, Green on 4.0% and nationalists on 2.3%.

Aug 21, 2024

Weirdness and the Right

At the time of writing, the USA’s Democratic Party has recently hit on a new line of attack against their far right opponents (Trump…

Aug 3, 2024

A tweet by Sean Thomason @TheThomason from the 29th of July 2024: Basically, people who don’t mind being called weird are “good weird.” People who get mad when they’re called weird are “bad weird.”

Aug 3, 2024

Autism and Mainstreaming

The Presumption of Mainstreaming in Scottish Education

May 6, 2024

A video still of the author, a white person with light hair and glasses, pausing in mid-flow with a sceptical expression. Their room is full of books, art and musical instruments.

May 6, 2024

My Mum and Monotropism

Mar 15, 2024

Dinah wearing her Productive Irritant badge with pride; and a deep, well-lit tunnel.

Mar 15, 2024

Fergus Murray

Fergus Murray

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Monotropic science teacher. Lives in Edinburgh, writes about neurodiversity, science, politics and things. Aka Oolong, or Ferrous. https://oolong.co.uk

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