I'm super proud of my fellow BFS committee members E.M. Faulds & David Green for being so open & vulnerable about what it's like to be a neurodiverse writer. I already posted Beth's piece, but as we continue the BFS's celebration of Neurodiversity Week , here BFS Secretary David Green is searingly honest about what it’s like to be autistic and a writer—especially one who writes about neurodiverse characters.
So....I feel like I'm pretty weird when it comes to certain things I really enjoy.
Music for example. I LOVE music. All kinds. Rock, Pop, HipHop, Classic and all of the subgenres that those genres created....with the exception of Country.
I just CANNOT Country. There's just something about the "twang" sound of it that just makes me cringe, if that makes any sense.
Does anyone else have something like this where they LOVE almost everything about a particular topic or hobby, except ONE particular subset of it?
#Dyslexic friends, how do you handle having your spelling corrected? This week I’ve had an email telling me about a misspelling on my website (admittedly that could be useful to know but it’s still not something I really want my contact form used for) and had comments at work on spelling on drafts (that were shared for convenience and I thought it was clear they weren’t the final version). I always think of myself as ‘not very dyslexic’ but then I wonder if that’s an oversimplification! #Neurodiversity
I am looking for more resources on neurodivergence in academia and the workplace. It's for our EDI group and a potential awareness seminar so anything under this (broad) umbrella is good.
Please only respond if:
a) you are actually neurodivergent OR
b) your resources were definitely made by a neurodivergent person :)
Zamiast uśmiechnąć się do mema i doomscrollować, lepiej wpaść na "ej, ale to przecież tak jak można kupić nazwanie gwiazdy, hmm, w sumie to ciekawe jakie są oferty" i zacząć przeszukiwać internet. Zacząć, bo po chwili można zacząć planować gospodarowanie miastem, którego dochód pochodzi z abonamentów na nazwy ulic, placów, alei, zaułków, mostów... Z systemem abonamentowym byłby np. problem z wymianą dokumentów mieszkańców. Ale może dokumenty to przeżytek? A może...
Postęp "już za chwilę to zrobię" malowania ściany: 0. Od rana. Nowe pomysły: nie do policzenia. Założone kolektywy: 1. Prawie zrobione zakupy internetowe: no, kilka. Jedzenie: zapomniałem.
Kocham swój mózg, nie ironicznie, dzisiaj kocham.
Przynajmniej dzisiaj wygrywam z doomscrolingiem zdecydowanie. Nawet miałem myśl o wyjściu z domu, ale NIE MAM CZASU. Na altext też, przepraszam, bo kliknięcie teraz "wyślij" to prawdopodobnie jedyna szansa żeby ten post skończyć.