the descriptuion of the author >>As a gendervague person who is married to a trans woman, topics related to gender and queer identity are an important focus of their work. Lauren is a former sex worker and teen parent who is writing essays and a memoir about that experience. A Philadelphia area native, Lauren is an autistic person raising two neurodivergent kids in South Jersey. They homeschool and spends lots of time in the garden. seriously, she is literally a mentally ill / retarded whore/teen mom with retarded children, and somehow the washington post felt she was the best person to be speaking on how to raise a child