Welcome back to Circa 1945: Breaking the Machine. A podcast about genocide as infrastructure and the counter-infrastructure we must build to prevent it.

Today’s story is about an autistic child, just like me.

A twelve-year-old girl with Disney socks, a world-map rug, and a brain wired to see history as shapes.

Not heroes. Not villains. Not morality tales.

Shapes. Patterns. Structures. Heads that grow, split, devour, collapse, or endure.

It’s a story about what happens when a child sees something that the adults around her refuse to see — a pattern repeating itself in new words and familiar shapes.

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