She's in the testing room now. No time limit so hopefully, it doesn't take her longer than 1.5 hours. I'll need to eat & head to work in time to get there for my first session. 🤞🏻I can finally read or journal & fully fade into my music as I don't have to be aware of anything around me. It's not terrible, but there's a persistent unease in these public spaces that drain my 🥄
Plus my mama heart picks up on her #anxiety & testing is not fun for her #ADHD #autistic#neurodivergent @actuallyautistic
Deep breaths & sigh of relief. This "active noise canceling" feature of earbuds is such a gift for managing sensory stimulation; especially when waiting on public spaces.
Every time I come across a good resource on topics like critical thinking, media and science literacy, misinformation, analytic techniques, etc. I'll add them to this pinned list
First up: I randomly first came across this free course/reference from the University of Hong Kong well over a decade ago and have retaken it several times since and I can honestly say it has changed my life. Don't let the abstract stuff fool you. You'll be surprised how useful it can be:
Call for experts to participate in the IPCC Scoping Meeting for a Methodology Report on the Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage
Hallo allerseits! 👋 🙂 Ich bin der Markus, Romanautor für Fantasy und Science Fiction, außerdem Illustrator, RPG-Designer und vieles mehr. Hauptsächlich bin ich hier auf Mastodon, um über meine Bücher, das Schreiben und allgemein kreative Betätigung zu plaudern. Ich bin gespannt, wen ich hier so alles kennenlernen werde. 😊
Call for experts to participate in the IPCC Scoping Meeting for a Methodology Report on the Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage
My first client is late today, so y'all get my braindumps this morning. I am 46. I guess that's in the window of possibly starting to experience #perimenopause. I haven't been able to determine if my temp regulation issues are because of #autism#anxiety or perimenopause. But they started getting really bad last yr. My husband had bought this same #Embr Wave Cooling Bracelet for his dad when he was going through chemo. It had helped him, so he bought one for me. 1/
@Susan60@actuallyautistic
🥹 I understand. There are generations of patriarchal socializing and shaming 😒 that produce an unsafe and female body shaming environment. It's in the water as the say...#feminism has come a ways, but there's a ways more to go.
@Ilovechai@actuallyautistic
Left school thinking 2nd wave feminism had fixed everything. In my first job in a bank, 1977, ascthecjuniorci made coffee for everyone when the doors closed at 3pm. When we got a new junior, it was still my job. The new junior was male. And when the female advance clerk got a promotion, I heard someone ask who she’d slept with.
@kcarr2015 Yeah, the whole "is this person still that person" was interesting. It's one thing that Star Trek does pretty well presenting these dilemmas, Measure of Man, is another case, as well as the VOY episode where the Doctor wrote a holonovel and his publisher is like, you're not a person so this work belongs to us. #AllStarTrek@allstartrek