My worlds are colliding and I don’t know what to do

I’ve run into a conundrum.

I started my Medium account without thinking much would come of it. I specifically wanted it to be a separate online presence from the disability rights blog I write under a different name on a different platform. I wanted a place where I could post snarky humor, use adult language, talk about sex, and generally express sides of myself that I don’t want linked to my professional identity.

Note: I do not expect to be anonymous here, mind you. I’m well aware that nothing is truly secret once it’s on the internet. I know that my clients or employers can find my non-professional persona if they bother to go looking for it. But I also consider it worthwhile to be able to refer people to my job-related writing without it being obviously linked to my posts that are more political or personal in nature.

However, I’ve been on this platform for a few years now and have gotten very active in commenting…. And lately I’ve been especially reading and commenting a lot about neurodiversity and disability, because those things aren’t just my job, they are also passionate areas of interest for me (one might even call them special interests, although I hesitate to use that term for various reasons, including the fact that I’m not nearly as much of an expert as I’d like to be).

I’m finding myself wanting to write articles here of the sort that I’m used to writing on my other blog. And sometimes I am tempted to reference things I’ve already written there, too. However, I…