It’s so nice having the sunshine out at seven. Makes it much easier to get ready for work and for my day. I hope the sun is shining on you!
The Toaster That Tried
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Autistic lady. Trying to sort out a world that seems bent on not making sense. Religious but not spiritual. Leftist Christian. Inclusive af. Possible Cylon.
Sometimes I feel like I’m a little too autistic for certain political discourses. It’s the straightforwardness. Where is my earnest and unironic left??? I know, I’m just having a moment. but I will never fit in with any of this and I guess that’s ok?
Tried to do some writing for a project involving different people with disabilities. It was interesting and scary as I tried to navigate talking about autism from both my own experiences and a more general perspective since it varies so much. I could only address a little about the varieties which vary so much from my own though.
More tomorrow I hope.
selfcare.techYou don't have to finish it all today.
Oh gosh, I just realized that the reason an early therapist diagnosed me with bipolar 2 is because of my autistic fixations. I knew that she was wrong after a while, but I did sometimes find these very distressing because they really affect your life and work and they can affect your sleep schedule and other things. But now I understand exactly what and why and how that could happen it made sense without understanding that I was also autistic.
🍂also since this is the fediverse and we have an opportunity to leverage fragmentation for good, might I suggest checking out "How to Design Social Systems" https://medium.com/what-to-build/how-to-design-social-systems-without-causing-depression-and-war-3c3f8e0226d1
one concept in that piece that I liked was the idea of treating social spaces as practice spaces: places where you can find an identity, whatever it might be, and where screwing up won't screw you for good.
that's the Internet that I knew as a teen, where a lot of my triumphs and fuckups were wiped out. and I think that's a far better system than what we have now.
one concept in that piece that I liked was the idea of treating social spaces as practice spaces: places where you can find an identity, whatever it might be, and where screwing up won't screw you for good.
that's the Internet that I knew as a teen, where a lot of my triumphs and fuckups were wiped out. and I think that's a far better system than what we have now.
@jessmahler but if for him it’s more about object permanence, that I don’t have as much perspective
@jessmahler I don’t know if for him it’s an issue of object permanence or trust though. For me it was definitely about trust, because I had realized that people might tell you things that aren’t true. And it was very important that things be true. And I was the only way I could be sure things were true.
@jessmahler I understand the experience, but I wish I had useful advice. I don’t know if there are kinds of activities or stories you could do to explain how persons A&B can be doing one thing and at the same time persons C and D&H are doing another thing and then they all meet and talk about it later. For me, I just sometimes realized that I couldn’t trust anything I hadn’t seen or heard. And so I would just reject it.
@digitalfox yes this sounds very familiar. Details are so comforting and help me avoid stress