I got myself a sensory swing and as soon as I get inside it my cat comes and demands to be let in
I talk about accessibility on parties
Non-binary, bipolar, ADHD
Kai Katonina
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I just realized why I'm annoyed when my therapist is horrified by my abuse stories - it's because reacting to their emotional display will cost me spoons. I will have the impulse to comfort them, and I will also resist this impulse, because I know I shouldn't comfort my therapist, and that's at least two separate spoons
My signature move is to calmly give a well analyzed summary of parental abuse and then be genuinely surprised when the therapist looks horrified.
Reading "Against Technoableism". The thought that really struck me: in at least some sense we want a future with more disabled people, not less.
The only criticism I have is that while the critique of capitalism and institutionalization in industrial and post industrial societies is on point, family and community care of pre-industrial societies is presented as an ideal and perfect state, where everyone is cared for by loving people who have their best interest in mind. Unfortunately this is simply not the case.
I can't tell that I enjoyed "Mad world. The politics of mental health", because it's a book that hurt me and made me angry, although in a good way. It's incredible and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in topics of disability in general and Mental Illness/ Madness specifically.
The biggest challenge in my work life is to figure out the right amount of work to do and the right amount of shit to give. Not caring about work enough makes me depressed, but caring too much makes me try to do everything that needs to be done, overwork and burn myself out to crisp.
Ofc it's more of a spectrum rather than a strict binary, but it explains some of the logic a bit better
After years of working in accessibility I just realized that social model of disability sees disability and impairment as two distinct concepts, where impairments are purely individual attributes, and disability refers only to restrictions that emerge in the interaction with society that does not accommodate.
I'd like to please understand why doing emotional work makes me feel so tired that I feel like I need to lie down while I'm already lying down. Like, how does it technically work that some talking and thinking makes me feel more tired than an alpine hike.