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Why Do We Hold Ourselves to Neurotypical Standards?
I came across this video a while ago, and since I watched it I’ve been thinking about the standards that I try to achieve.
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Not Native Speakers
I would tell them to view it as if your child is a native speaker of one language, but you were having to rear them in a society where they have to speak another language. You know, frequently, constantly and so constantly you’re having to change things around and
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The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture | Dating Tips for the Feminist Man
Men have to do this with other men, despite the difficulties in doing so, for three reasons. For one, men understand what it is like to be a man much better than women do, and they can teach one another while understanding what it actually feels like and having compassion
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All The Way Down
I love reading autistic forums. The other day, someone posted about how they just learned from their brother that they’d been showering wrong this whole time. They’d just been using shampoo to wash their whole body, but their brother set them straight that body wash was for their
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Therapy Saved My Life » NeuroClastic
How many long years were there rolled up around my soul, each one a tight rubber band waiting to snap? Picture me at the center, a balled up tiny human strangled by the unspoken worries and ingrained terrible self-image. Until very recently, I gave up hope that I would ever
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Opinion | The Limits of My Empathy for Covid Deniers - The New York Times
Demonizing them turns my community into a reactionary force I’ve been thinking about this idea of empathy a lot lately, and this opinion piece at the New York Times was pretty good. The line above made me think about how my community reacted over the course of this week
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Cut to fit
“We consider which parts of ourselves we want the world to see, which parts are acceptable.” I coined a similar metaphor when I was younger, in an early journal, I must have been 18 and just starting to figure myself out, that’s not right, I only recently started figuring
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A Hundred Gotchas
Made it to the vacation. It was incredibly stressful to get here, and I left a bunch of loose ends at work that will probably bite me in the butt when I get back, but I just couldn’t anymore, you know? This isn’t the first time that I’
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The Reason I Jump - Wikipedia
I was caught off guard with the bias in this Wikipedia article. I mean, I know it’s written and edited by humans, but still, this really struck me. A significant portion of the article was spent to how some people think it’s a hoax: Higashida was diagnosed with
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REVIEW: The Reason I Jump - An Unusual Film With a Very Important Message » NeuroClastic
Even after the film’s release, the film crew still continued conversations with the consultation group about outreach and advocacy tied to the film. Behind the scenes, the team tried to create employment opportunities by hiring autistic musicians, production assistants, and even their synesthetic sound designer, Nick Ryan. I started
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I woke up sad
I didn’t realize how long grief could take. My therapist pointed out that the grieving process doesn’t go in a straight line, but rather cycles, or in my case lurches forward with the same lack of grace with which it lurches backward, to borrow a wonderful turn of
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The Aut Couple • A podcast on Anchor
My partner Kate and I started a podcast together, where we discuss our NT/ND relationship and the challenges we face as parents of two neurodiverse kids. Our first episode is out now on Anchor, wherein we ruminate about infodumps. The Aut Couple • A podcast on Anchor