The Who taught me the word "sack" in Substitute. The Stones taught me "politesse" in Sympathy for the Devil. Those guys didn't even have the internet. They were facile enough with those words to rhyme them.
My fellow #ActuallyAutistic folks; do you cycle through your fixations? Right now I'm fixated on gaming so much with all these special in-game events that I've put aside language learning. I've also been really into my writing/editing, which is very awesome. But sometimes I'll switch tracks, and I'm all like, "Learn all the languages! Make all the musics! Crochet all the blankets! Read all the books...at once!!" 🤣
Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th anniversary edition) | UQP
In this ground-breaking book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism and its effects on Indigenous women.
@rowlandm it's a great book. If you're interested, I created @indigenousauthors so people can share/discuss books like this one. And I made another auto booster @auslit for Australian literature, in general
Since I joined Mastodon in 2022, my library hold request list has constantly been maxed out because you all read such interesting books. Thanks for all the excellent recommendations #bookstodon 😄
@helenclayton@louisa_ if you don't know about it, follow the Bookstodon group @bookstodon People will tag the account in book posts and rebroadcast to all the followers.
As a chronic people-pleaser, this is my advice for success.
Offer as little as possible. Be terse. Get rid of all those exclamation marks and tidbits about why you want to take a sick day. State your needs clearly and concisely without reason. Start saying “No, I’m unable.” more often. Say Thank You only when the other party deserves it.
Not all! My arch Linux install definitely has the original vi – the one where when you cw it doesn’t delete the word until you go back to normal mode to save on screen refresh. Plugins? Custom commands? Multiple buffers? Forget it!
#AskingAutistics
For context this is from a discussion I was having and I couldn't come up with an answer.
If you were say, trying to get into the dating game or wanted to meet new friends.
would you disclose before hand or early on that you were autistic? (I count Self-DX but I do realize that could change the conversation)
Like I do realize allistic people can (Subconsciously) be jerks to autistic people if they perceive a difference, and I'm wondering if that would be worse if they outright KNEW you were autistic.
Please give me some input this question is eating me up inside lol
Also, I go with something I learned from Dan Savage about disclosing something "odd" or "unfavorable" about yourself while dating: You disclose one thing about you; their reaction tells you everything about them.
ICYMI, the "Book of Love" zoom panel was really interesting; the planned hour because two.
I understand that participants will get a link to the recorded video in the next few days, and I'll ask whether it's okay to share here, for your viewing pleasure.
And we have a link! Sunday's panel discussing The Book of Love, with authors Sandra Kitt, Beverly Jenkins and Kelly Link, moderated by genre romance historian Steve Ammidown, can be watched on the Romance Bookstore YT channel here: