BZBrainz,
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@actuallyautistic @audhd
Was deeply engaged in a difficult conversation today when a book caught my attention across the room. “Is that Unmasking Autism? I read that earlier this year.” It was an optional opening for optional disclosure. It changed the questions he felt comfortable asking, changed how I provided education, and it ended be a deeply satisfying and helpful exchange. Today was a real win. @bookstodon

addie,

@actuallyautistic @BZBrainz @bookstodon @audhd

Unmasking Autism is a good book.

axnxcamr,
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@addie

Currently reading it, and underlining and annotating in it like a madman!

I've been refraining from writing in books my whole life. It felt natural to start doing it in that book.

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BZBrainz,
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@axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd I was taught growing up that writing in books is having “a conversation with the author.” I loved writing in books that I feel a connection with… Unmasking Autism was definitely one of those books for me.

geographile,
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@BZBrainz @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd i highlight and take notes in my kindle app! and that's in my to-read stack.

BZBrainz,
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@geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd I love my Kindle app for a similar reason! 🥰

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@BZBrainz @geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd

On Kindle, it's fine. I was raised by a librarian, an I can never be comfortable writing in a paper book. You spoil it for the next reader, unless it's an archaologist a few centuries from now.

lapingvino,

@Grizzlysgrowls @BZBrainz @geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd exception: Fermat's math books 😂😂😂

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@lapingvino @BZBrainz @geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd Sure, if you're Fermat. Alas, I am not.

BZBrainz,
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@lapingvino @Grizzlysgrowls @geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd In trying to understand this comment, I fell down a rabbit hole that ended (because my last go TF to sleep alarm went off) in a last theorem meme. I am going to go to bed pondering this…

ScottSoCal,
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@BZBrainz @lapingvino @Grizzlysgrowls @geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd

I get the comment, but I googled Fermat's Last Theorem, to see what it was. I think you'd need a fast computer to validate it.

geographile,
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@Grizzlysgrowls @BZBrainz @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd

But if it's your own book, you get to decide who the next reader is and can give it to someone who won't mind.

axnxcamr,
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@geographile

Of course! I wouldn't dare writing in a book that's not mine!

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BZBrainz,
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@geographile @Grizzlysgrowls @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd I’d like a book chain like that. It reminds me of a Live Journal project from decades ago where art journals were shipped across country and each person created a page before shipping it on to the next person.

geographile,
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@BZBrainz @Grizzlysgrowls @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd I really miss LiveJournal.

axnxcamr,
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@Grizzlysgrowls

I understand what you mean, and that's exactly why I refrained from doing it all those years.

But deep down, I always knew it wasn't true. You don't ruin the book for the next reader, because that book is now something else. That book is now something more, not less.

Anyway, I respect all the people who don't write in books, I'm am just no longer one of them! 😉

@BZBrainz @geographile @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd

SteveClough,
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@Grizzlysgrowls @BZBrainz @geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd

I tend to agree, that my comments will probably detract from the text, so I avoid writing in them.

At the same time, i never have any problems with other people who have written in books, because they give me a view of what they got out of them.

Grizzlysgrowls,
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@SteveClough @BZBrainz @geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd Looking up something completely different (which I didn't find), I found this article, which I append here because it discusses the many notes James Madison wrote in his own book.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-madison-papers/articles-and-essays/james-madison-and-the-federal-constitutional-convention-of-1787/

addie,

@axnxcamr @Grizzlysgrowls @SteveClough @bookstodon @BZBrainz @audhd @actuallyautistic @geographile

That’s a great point! Plus if they think in different ways that can help increase your comprehension too. The more you know!

…or if they doodle in the book that’s also kinda fun as long as it doesn’t block the words.

I wonder if there’s a way to write in books and them pass them on to someone online with the notes. It would be kinda neat to see!

BZBrainz,
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@Grizzlysgrowls @geographile @axnxcamr @addie @actuallyautistic @bookstodon @audhd I had a good long daydream about what an archeologist would think of my “conversions with authors.” I sometimes appreciate the notes of others and sometimes not. I will also go find videos of people reviewing books I enjoy as a way to extend the conversation.

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