Making Things
Courtney Barnett — Keep On
I came across Barnett’s “Elevator Operator” the other day and loved her Lou Reed style. This one also captures that, but has a touch of Cliff Richards as well.
Peter Birk
microblog
A robin has built a nest in the pear tree outside our bathroom window.
Autism
30 Days of Autism Acceptance: 13
April 13th: How much preparation and planning do you need before doing new things, or even for familiar things? Do you need to be totally prepared ahead of time or are you more comfortable with being spontaneous/just going for it? Does it vary for you depending on the thing
Autism
30 Days of Autism Acceptance: 12
April 12th: Is there anything you find hard to do because of being autistic? Is there anything that you find easy? Talking on the phone is really hard. Calling to make an appointment or place an order or do something with customer service I just dread and put off. I
Autism
30 Days of Autism Acceptance: 11
April 11th: What are your thoughts/feelings about masking (a term for when autistic people hide their autistic traits)? Do you mask? Yeah, I masked for so long. I would go into pretty severe depressions burning out from masking. It’s weird, because I didn’t have the autism diagnosis
Autism
30 Days of Autism Acceptance: 10
April 10th: How important is representation to you? Is the representation that is out there generally good or bad? What is your favorite piece of representation? What you like to see more of in autism representation? What would you like to see less of? I would like to see the
Autism
30 Days of Autism Acceptance: 9
April 9th: How has the pandemic impacted you? Has it changed routines? Do you like or dislike masks? What do you wish allistics and neurotypicals knew/understood about how the pandemic is impacting autistic people? Well, on one hand, the pandemic didn’t really affect me that much because I
Autism
30 Days of Autism Acceptance: 8
April 8th: Talk about friendship. How important are friends to you? Do you find it hard to make and maintain friendships? Are your friends generally supportive? Is there anything about having friends that confuses you? I’ve gone through periods with lots of friends, and periods with no friends. I’
Autism
Keeping the Gate Closed
“Anyone with the mental and verbal ability to challenge autism research is not autistic on a scale that I care to recognise.” (p12 – ouch!) Wow. This is so dehumanizing. And if you don’t see autistics as human, you probably don’t have a problem with trying to cure them.
Quotes
Where do your personal values appear on your calendar?
–Shayda Kafai 1 This really resonated with me. I’ve been struggling this year to take advantage of free time to do the things that I want to do, and something that’s been helping me a lot is to put these things on the calendar. Reading time. Writing time.
Uncategorized
30 Days of Autism Acceptance: 7
April 7th: How are you with sarcasm and/or metaphors/figures of speech? Do you interpret things very literally? How well do you deal with sarcasm and metaphor? I do pretty well, most of the time. Autie-J — 30 Days of Autism Acceptance 2021
Autism
Gaslighting Your Kids
Autistic people have different sensory experiences, and when a parent either disagrees with or denies those sensory experiences, the impact it has on the autistic kid is gaslighting, even if it wasn’t intentional. My son is having stomach trouble at school. Twice in the last week he’s gone