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Am I Autistic, or Am I Really a Cat?

In a world obsessed with identity labels, personality quizzes, zodiac signs, and spending 45 minutes choosing between 300 varieties of oat milk, a simple question haunts me: am I autistic, or am I really just a cat? Stick with me. It’s not as daft as it sounds. (Or perhaps it is, but that’s very on-brand for untypicable.) After all, stranger things have happened. Somewhere right now, there’s…

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Sociology Gone Wild: Theories So Bizarre They Might Actually Explain Everything

1. Phrenology: Measuring Morals One Bump at a Time Phrenology, once the life coach of 19th-century pseudoscience, was the belief that the shape of your skull could reveal everything about you—from your aptitude for needlework to your likelihood of becoming a highwayman. Franz Joseph Gall believed the brain was composed of “organs” controlling specific traits like benevolence, destructiveness,…

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The Forgotten Olympics: Competitive Napping and Other Events That Should Exist

Every four years, the world stops to marvel at feats of athletic prowess: people running faster than seems biologically sensible, somersaulting through the air with a grace that suggests an unfortunate deal with gravity, and lifting weights so heavy they could double as mid-sized hatchbacks. But amidst the sweat, the medals, and the national anthems, there lies a glaring oversight: where, pray…

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An Open Letter to the People Who Leave One Sheet on the Toilet Roll

Dear Bog Roll Bandit, Let’s begin with the basics. You know who you are. You’ve walked into the loo, seen that cardboard tube spinning on by with a single sheet of paper hanging on for dear life—and thought to yourself, “That’ll do.” No, it won’t. That one square isn’t helpful, it’s taunting us. It flaps there like a tiny white flag of passive-aggressive defiance, and quite frankly, I’m…

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How to Convince Yourself You’ve Been Productive Without Actually Doing Anything

Productivity is a state of mind—or at least that’s what we tell ourselves after spending an entire day colour-coding our calendar, rearranging pens, and opening tabs we have no intention of reading. In a world where hustle culture is worn like a badge of honour and even naps are being marketed as “productive rest,” it’s easy to feel like you’re falling behind if you’re not launching a side…

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Surviving the Methodology Chapter: A Guide for the Emotionally Shattered

Ah, the Methodology chapter: that noble, soul-crushing rite of passage every thesis writer must endure. If you’re currently drafting yours, congratulations! You’re somewhere between hopeful optimism and complete emotional devastation — and that’s perfectly normal. At untypicable, we don’t believe in sugar-coating academic trauma. Writing your methodology isn’t a logical step-by-step process;…

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Neurodivergent People Are Secretly Bond Villains (and We’re Plotting to Take Over Your Office)

Alright, so you haven’t made a mistake and accidentally clicked on a link for the Daily Mail or the Telegraph with that headline, you have found us at untypicable in a mood to reveal a big secret. Neurodivergent people are the quiet ones in the meeting who seem to have an unnatural ability to notice when someone’s borrowed our pen (without asking). We are the ones who reorganise the office…