Asperger blog series — design spec

Date: 2026-04-30 Status: Draft → pending user review Owner: gl0bal01.com (site owner) + Nina (new pseudonymous author)

1. Purpose

Launch a new diary-style blog series on the gl0bal01.com Docusaurus site, authored by a new pseudonymous persona ("Nina"), parent of two neurodivergent kids (one Asperger, one TDAH). The series sits outside the site's existing security/OSINT niche and adds a personal-essay register.

The trigger reference is the French PDF Symptomatique du syndrome d'Asperger chez l'enfant (Marin Bernard, 2012, with Tony Attwood quotations) sitting in the repo root. The PDF is not translated, adapted, or summarized — it is treated as one reference among others, cited inline only when a post genuinely leans on a specific section.

2. Decisions (locked during brainstorming)

Topic	Decision
Source PDF relationship	Inspired-by only (option C). No permission needed. Cite when relevant.
Author identity	Pseudonym (option B): nina81 / display name "Nina"
Author role	Parent of one Asperger kid (moderate) and one TDAH kid
Avatar	/img/nina.png (already present in repo, 14.7 KB)
Language	English only, lived-experience voice
Series scope	Open-ended diary (option D). Initial backlog of 8 posts (post 1 + 7 in backlog), grow ad-hoc afterward.
Voice register	Diary (option B): soft, interior, observational. Less "you", more "I/we/he".
Swearing	Allowed, sparing. FR swears welcome inside EN as voice tic.
Kid naming	Nicknames only: le grand (Asperger, older) + le petit (TDAH, younger)
Tags	New: diary, asperger. Default per-post: [diary, asperger] + situational.
Rollout	Drip-ship (option A). Post 1 first, calibrate voice, batch-write rest.
Post 1	"Diagnosis day"
Backlog size	8 posts (post 1 + 7 more)

3. Author

3.1 blog/authors.yml — appended block

nina81:
  name: Nina
  title: Parent
  url: /blog/authors/nina81
  image_url: /img/nina.png
  page: true
  socials: {}

3.2 Author bio (rendered on author page via page: true)

Two kids. The older one is Asperger (moderate), the younger one is TDAH. I'm not a clinician, I'm not a researcher, I'm the person who reads everything at 2am and still gets it wrong sometimes. These posts are notes from inside the house — what we tried, what landed, what didn't. No advice. Just record.

4. Tags

4.1 blog/tags.yml — appended blocks

diary:
  label: Diary
  description: Personal essays and lived-experience notes
  permalink: /diary

asperger:
  label: Asperger
  description: Asperger syndrome — symptoms, diagnosis, daily life
  permalink: /asperger

4.2 Tag policy

• Every Nina post: [diary, asperger] minimum
• Situational extras added per post (e.g. school, sensory, siblings, family) — declared in tags.yml only if reused, otherwise inline-only is fine since Docusaurus accepts free-form tags
• The diary tag is reusable beyond Nina if the site ever adds other personal-essay authors

5. Voice rules (Nina-specific)

These rules diverge from the site-wide Korben register documented in CLAUDE.md. They apply only to posts authored by nina81.

5.1 Use

• First person singular and plural ("I", "we"). Sparse "you".
• Short sentences. Fragments OK. Quiet over performative.
• Concrete sensory detail over adjectives — same as Korben rule, but turned inward (smell of CRA waiting room, weight of paperwork in lap), not outward.
• Kids: le grand (Asperger, older) + le petit (TDAH, younger). Never named.
• Swearing OK when earned, sparing. French swears welcome (putain, merde) inside otherwise-EN text — registers as voice tic, not affectation.
• Mix EN narrative + FR specific terms (CRA, AESH, TDAH, orthophoniste, IME, MDPH) — italicize first occurrence in a post, define inline briefly.

5.2 Avoid

• "You" address as default (kept for rare direct moments only)
• Korben interjections ("anyway", "trust me", "and boom") — wrong register for this voice
• Marketing close, three-bullet recap, emoji
• Clinical voice ("studies show", "the literature suggests")
• Advice voice ("you should", "make sure to")
• Inspirational close ("we got through it")
• Inventing claims about the PDF — only quote what is actually there
• Naming actual people (teachers, doctors, AESH workers) — use role only

5.3 PDF reference rotation

Cite the Marin Bernard PDF only when a post genuinely leans on a specific section (e.g. literal-kid post → Langage chapter, empathy post → Fonctions sociales). No standing footer "source: PDF" on every post. Some posts cite zero sources — diary register, not literature review. When cited, link once inline at the relevant beat, not as boilerplate top/bottom.

5.4 Closer pattern

One observation. No resolution. Diary doesn't tie bows.

6. Post 1 — "Diagnosis day"

6.1 File

blog/2026-04-30-diagnosis-day.md

6.2 Frontmatter

---
slug: diagnosis-day
title: "Diagnosis day"
authors: nina81
tags: [diary, asperger]
keywords: [asperger diagnosis, CRA, autism spectrum, parent perspective, neurodivergent kids, diagnosis day, lived experience]
description: "What we walked into the CRA believing. What we walked out carrying. The day a label became real, and what shifted at home that night."
date: 2026-04-30
---

6.3 Structure (loose, not template)

1. Opener — physical detail of the room or moment of the verdict (1-2 short paragraphs)
2. What we believed walking in — the wrong labels we'd already collected (précoce, anxieux, TOC)
3. The conversation — the psychiatrist's words, what "moderate" meant in their frame
4. The family-blame beat (2-3 sentences max) — the paper finally shuts up the family who blamed parenting. Relief mixed with bitterness. Don't expand here; full treatment goes to backlog post #8 ("The proof").
5. The car ride home — silence, paperwork on lap, le grand asking about lunch
6. That night — what changed in how we read his bedtime routine
7. Closer — one observation, no resolution

6.4 Targets

• 700-1100 words
• No code blocks, no images on first ship (can be added later)
• <!-- truncate --> placed after opener (matches site convention for blog index excerpt)
• 0-1 occurrences of "you"
• 1-2 italicized FR terms with inline definition

6.5 PDF citation policy for this post

Implicit. The Complexité du diagnostic section of the PDF informs the second beat (the wrong-labels collection: précoce, anxieux, TOC) but does not need to be cited. No link to PDF in this post.

7. Backlog (posts 2-8, written after post 1 voice calibration)

#	Working title	Anchor PDF section (informs only)	Notes
2	The CRA waiting list	Complexité du diagnostic	Months of nothing, then strict protocol
3	Flunch meltdown	Sensibilité (auditive, visuelle)	Sensory overload at FR cafeteria chain. Specific scene.
4	The literal kid	Langage — Littéralité	"Break a leg" landing wrong. PDF cite earned here.
5	Imitation as camouflage	Adaptation des enfants (intro)	The masking trick PDF describes. PDF cite earned.
6	Aspie + TDAH brothers	none	Opposite operating systems under one roof. No PDF cite.
7	Empathy mythbuster	Fonctions sociales — Empathie	He feels everything, just doesn't show it the way you expect. PDF cite earned.
8	The proof / It wasn't bad parenting	none	Diagnosis as vindication against family blame. Full treatment of the beat surfaced briefly in post 1. Possible extra tag: family.

Each backlog post follows section 5 voice rules. Each gets its own date when scheduled (drip cadence TBD by user, default ~1/week).

8. File operations (executed during implementation plan, not now)

File	Op	Purpose
blog/authors.yml	append	Add nina81 block
blog/tags.yml	append	Add diary + asperger tag blocks
blog/2026-04-30-diagnosis-day.md	create	Post 1
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-30-asperger-blog-series-design.md	create	This spec (current file)
docs/superpowers/specs/nina-voice-guide.md	create	Standalone voice guide extracted from §5 + backlog from §7. Durable reference for future posts so spec is not reread each time.

9. Out of scope (explicit)

• Posts 2-8 — drip-ship cadence; written only after post 1 voice review
• Translation, adaptation, or summary of the Marin Bernard PDF — chose inspired-by (decision §2)
• Author landing page customization — Docusaurus auto-generates from authors.yml w/ page: true; default is acceptable
• I18n / FR site mirror — chose EN only
• New tag categories beyond diary + asperger at launch — situational tags added per-post on demand
• Edits to existing blog posts
• Image production for post 1 — text only on first ship

10. Verification at implementation completion

• npm run build succeeds with no new errors or warnings introduced by these changes
• Author page renders at /blog/authors/nina81 with avatar and bio
• Tag pages render at /blog/tags/diary and /blog/tags/asperger
• Post 1 appears in blog index with Nina avatar and excerpt cut at <!-- truncate -->
• Voice spot-check on post 1 against §5 rules (use list + avoid list)
• No regressions on existing posts (sample check on 2026-04-12-zero-trust-lifestyle.md author rendering)

11. Risks and unknowns

• Voice mismatch on post 1. Mitigation: drip-ship A chosen specifically for this. User reads post 1 before backlog is written. One rewrite max if voice off.
• Avatar PNG quality. 14.7 KB — sufficient for blog avatar, no action needed unless user wants higher-res later.
• Tag pollution. Adding diary is generic; if site later wants per-author scoping, that is a separate refactor outside this spec.
• PDF copyright. Inspired-by usage with attribution-when-cited is well within fair use. No legal concern at chosen scope.
• FR term opacity for EN readers. Each post defines FR terms inline on first use. No glossary page created (out of scope).

12. Next step

After user reviews and approves this spec, invoke superpowers:writing-plans to produce the step-by-step implementation plan covering the file operations in §8 and the verification checks in §10.