as an autistic person, who is highly competent in certain environments, and near disabled in others, I’ve found that I can do things that are normally quite difficult for me if they are related to my field of interest–parsing seemingly arbitrary lists of conditions to fill out necessary forms, for example. I’m doing this a…
It’s been very emotional for me to reemerge from the darkness of lockdown to return to building community through music-making. In my conversations with folks, it becomes clear that a younger generation of families don’t know about some of the ways we connected before, and don’t necessarily remember many of the ways things were different…
continue reading why we do what we do: my mother’s crone ceremony
if one aspires to advocate, one is wise to watch the baby.
the baby is the perfect advocate,
advocating directly for their own needs.
(may all our babies’ needs be met,
Affirming neurodiversity is recognizing that, in a musical space, one person is tuned into the soprano register, even though their voice presents in the bass register; another person hears long melodic phrases when everyone else is creating short rhythmic phrases; and someone else’s brain is turning the patterns of sound into physical shapes, and they…
here’s what i’m trying to reconcile, sweetie,
some of us recognize that we maybe only have five days left to connect with our loved ones,
while others feel that time is endless, and we’ll always have another chance, in the future, to eventually connect with our loved ones.
and those of us who recognize that we maybe only have five days left are recognizing that we’re not hearing from the loved ones who we want to be connected with, in our last five days.
consider the right to bare arms,
in a bare-armed hug.
we hear each other wrong, and it shows.
poor transcription does us in, every time.
Thesis: the attentional disengagement family of predispositions is a healthy and strategic set of adaptations within a species or community with strong tendencies to cooperate. In a species adapted to function through tight coordination, the coordinated activity can become prioritized, causing those engaged to lose sight of the emergent reason for the activity. In a…
He was probably a university student, or a post-doc, or maybe already a professor.
He was probably married and probably had a new child at home,
(and might have even had an idea of what university he hoped his child would attend).
He was probably an only child, or if he had siblings, was probably somehow isolated from his siblings–
continue reading Portrait of a Scientist (early 20th century)
Certain teachers teach to those who learn easily:
Let’s applaud such teachers.
Uncertain teachers learn from those with difficulty in learning, and teach accordingly.
Let’s applaud such teachers doubly, and pay them accordingly.
