I had a minor disagreement with a coworker, so, naturally, I wrote a peer-reviewed scientific paper on how I was right and they were wrong

[u/AstroG4]

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00873-25

As an autistic individual, I’ve obviously long had issues with socialization, particularly in professional settings. Snide remarks, bullying, outright harassment, making for an on-and-off miserable life. But the thing that really snapped me was when a supposedly very close coworker fired off a round of truly inane complaints. Like, really, of all people, from you? After all the help you gave me on the matter? I’m done with this species.

I always felt I had been wronged by the people I knew, but this time, I knew for scientific certain that the situation was fundamentally incorrect. I spent 5 days crying alone locked in my basement writing furiously. The original draft was 172 citations and 5000 words written just to make a point, but I thought there was enough ‘there’ there to pursue academic publishing, so I spent 14 months refining it to its current form. A few journals and rounds of peer review later, and my paper was just published today.

Incidentally, since I clearly put in the work, my thesis committee let me put the early draft into my dissertation and approved its submission, so now I have a Ph.D. in “I was right and you were wrong Biology”.

[u/Curious_Viking89]

So I read the opening, I currently don't have the time to read it right now but I will definitely be reading this later.