the Venn diagram that is a circle

I want you to know I am grateful
for your friendship
for the way you sometimes read my thoughts
before I finish arranging them into words

You seem to understand my strange internal weather
better than I expect anyone to
and that is a paradox of beauty and terror
like lightning seeking ground
bright, precise, alive —
and dangerous

I am still learning self-compassion
slowly
like a language spoken with an accent,
I still trip over the grammar
of being with people

I keep asking myself
how to be real without being too much
how to be honest without spilling everywhere
how to quiet the voice that insists
I do not belong in any room I walk into

Thank you for your patience
for seeing me clearly
and choosing to stay
(These words smell familiar,
as though I’ve written them before,
and of course I have
only not as me
and not to you,
and damn you, did you have to be right again?
I never intended her to be me)

Thank you for caring enough
to offer gentle honesty
the kind of honesty that steadies instead of wounds

I won’t presume to know your truths
but from the outside
you move through life with grounded ease
quietly accomplished
capable
and beside that, I sometimes feel younger than I am
a little unpracticed
trying not to draw attention to myself
in ways that could be read unkindly

I never had siblings
but I imagine this is how it feels
to be the little sister
hovering at the edge of the game
learning by watching
hoping to be invited

That waiting —
the fear of being told it is time to go home —
is mine to hold
not yours to manage

What matters is this
you make space
you let me join
you let me learn the rules as I go

I am sorry
for the times you have needed to step carefully
navigating my edges, both soft and sharp

But thank you
for meeting me as I am #autism #dnd #Dorothea #dot #empathy #friends #friendship #learning #mine #neurodivergence #patience #poetry #progress #selfCompassion #trauma #vennDiagram

cricket meets Venn diagram [video 14m23s - contains traces of Victor Trumper] #cricket #BowlingMachine #VennDiagram #VictorTrumper https://youtu.be/2E424Itot8s

The AI Iceberg: Understanding ChatGPT

Analogies are useful for understanding complex ideas, and there are plenty of complexities for educators trying to wrap their heads around ChatGPT. In this post, I’ll try to explain some of the features of the chatbot and the model it’s built on top of. I'm deliberately avoiding any kind of analogy that represents the AI as magical, mythical, human, or godlike - we've seen enough of them. I’m not claiming that this analogy is watertight or that there is no better way to conceptualise […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/05/18/the-ai-iceberg-understanding-chatgpt/

The #venndiagram for this moment.