…we adopt identities not as essential truths to fight & die for but as concepts that are useful in a given place & time. They are socially constructed & always shifting. We can hold our concepts loosely. As #DorothySmith said, they’re not things, they’re ‘#ToolsToThinkWith, until we find something better’.

Holding our concepts loosely there is always room for doubt, because we can never see everything; & always room for compassion, if we choose it.

Holding on to a caricature…

@hellomiakoda @allenstenhaus

I really think the separate diagnoses, while necessary rn to access support, aren’t the most useful way of understanding ourselves. Neurodivergence, as a family of differences in sensory perception & information processing, offers way more room for understanding ourselves & each other.

As Canadian sociologist #DorothySmith said, the concepts aren’t things. They’re just #ToolsToThinkWith until we find something better. Hold them loosely. 😎

@fishidwardrobe @Zumbador @H2O @actuallyautistic

It's from a wonderful Canadian sociologist, the late #DorothySmith She knew that the the map is not the territory, where we look from, how we ask questions & the tools we think with shape what we see, & that 'the myth of the disembodied knower' is bullshiit. I'm so glad I found her.