Statistically speaking, someone here on Mastodon probably needs to be reminded to move their laundry to the dryer. So be kind and share this toot around. Every bit helps.
We had dinner with some friends this evening -- five of us in total. After discussing it with Helen earlier in the week, I came out to them as autistic.
I got an interesting set of reactions. Angela (a former headteacher, who I thought knew more about autism) said: "but you're so social." So I said a few words about masking and learning to spend time in company. Lesley replied: "you should have known him when he was young. He was really quite odd." (No, it's fine, we have that kind of relationship.)
I told Angela I thought she'd known for years, and she said she'd suspected it, but only because of my unusual walk. So, if you really want to pass as NT, you need not only to avoid ticcing and stimming, and make eye contact, and say the right things at the right speed, and pull the right faces, but also to get your walk right. Who knew teachers specialised in gait analysis?
@nddev@riggbeck@actuallyautistic No, a woman, but she has a son who was walking on his toes too last time I saw him and is an adult and definitely #ND.
As was the way back in the day, my walk was commented upon when I was 18 and the word 'wiggle' was used so pretty much ever since I've been extremely self conscious of how I walk and have possibly subconsciously adjusted it. I've never been a toe walker though.
I totally can’t play any games where I have to control character movements(especially first-person) by WASD, arrows, gamepads, joysticks etc. Point and click is my everything. Is it something #neurodivergent people often struggle with, or is it my personal problem? If #nd - is it something more typical for #autism or #ADHD? Or should I check some other flavor? @actuallyautistic
In my part of Wales, families with disabled and/or neurodivergent kids rely heavily on the Sparkle charity, which organizes support as well as fun events for the kids. Unfortunately, they're hitting a major funding crisis.
Which flavor of #neurodivergent is inability to feel belonging to any group? I think, I finally got why I don’t get that #gender thing. Basically, a gender is just another cohort, with some assumed properties. A group one feels belonging to. And I have never felt as a part of any group. I never fit in. Each cohort is supposed to have certain properties, and I just never have all. I just feel like impostor in any, including any gender/sexuality groups, including #agender#queer#nd#AuDHD
"CNN reported Rios called one of the officers a homophobic slur and brought up an officer’s nationality. After the officer told him that he was from England, Rios said England had been 'taken over' by migrants."
The Mad Scholars Anthology Project is finally happening.
Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Nuerodiverse Academy
Edited by Melanie Jones and Shayda Kafai, this book contains chapters by numerous Mad Academics, including myself.
Published by Syracuse University Press
"...one of the most timely, conscious, and robust contributions to the field of Mad Studies that I have yet to encounter. The world needs this book, and it needs it right now." - Syracuse Reviewer
My chapter is called "The Subject is Mad" and flits about through various vignettes of madness from Academia to childhood, and explores how madness informs practices of reading, writing, speaking, and percieving.
Of my own chapter, a reviewer wrote, "It’s beautiful; it also gestures toward a variety of Mad epistemological interventions while leaning heavily into Mad stylistics. I appreciate the way they emphasize Mad community and ancestry."
Contributors:
SAV SCHLAUDERAFF
SHAWNA GUENTHER
REBECCA ELI LONG
JESS L. WILCOX COWING
SYDNEY F. LEWIS
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARSINHA
MELANIE JONES
CACHÉ OWENS
SARAH CAVAR
RUA WILLIAMS
KELAN KONING
LIZ MILLER
SAMUEL Z. SHELTON
PAU ABUSTAN
A-M MCMANAMAN
JESSE RICE-EVANS AND ANDRÉA STELLA
SARAH SMITH AND GRACE WEDLAKE
SARAH ARVEY TOV
KIMBERLY FERNANDES
DIANE R. WIENER
HOLLY PEARSON
SHAYDA KAFAI
@FractalEcho wow - the above future publication about neurodiversity in academia will be of interest to the @actuallyautistic and also the @actuallyadhd and other ND folks, I believe!
If you're looking for some Autistic friendly alternative income ideas, and tips on how to make it work for our neurotype, and answer some common executive functioning questions around alternative work, from an actually Autistic woman: that's the topic of my next free workshop, in Jan.
Yes, it really is free, not a disguise for marketing. You'll get my newsletter, but that's all, the workshop will not be a sales pitch.
TV pitch: Netflix's Queer Eye but the Fab 5 are #neurodivergent. They turn up at people's houses for exactly 52 mins, find the earring the owner lost years ago in 25 seconds, arrange all their possessions into alphabetical order (& memorise them), then are inadvertently rude to the owner, then leave. #ASD#ADHD#ND
I wasn't at #Miatacon early, but I got there well before the mass exodus later on in the day. Didn't see a single #ND in the same color as mine -- “Deep crystal blue mica.” In fact, I've never seen another ND in this color. It was limited to GT models initially and now it seems to be limited to the Club trim.
https://taz.de/Kritik-an-Korrespondentin/!5964117/ Das „#nd“ beendet die Zusammenarbeit mit Autorin Karin Leukefeld. Interne Kritik an ihrer #Syrien-Berichterstattung gab es schon seit längerer Zeit.
Den #Hamas-Angriff vom 7. Oktober bezeichnet Leukefeld in ihrem neusten Text, veröffentlicht auf den Nachdenkseiten, „als Militäroperation der palästinensischen Qassam-Brigaden gegen #Israel“. #querfrontseiten#querfront