@quincy
I just went over it quickly, will read more later on.
I realy can't relate to lack in TOM and find the double empathy problem describing it way better. Sadly this is not referenced.
I really love the monotropism conecpt. It was the first questionare that was really easy to fill out on the autism topic and the concept describes my experience really well.
A fair number of mutuals from the old platform are now mutuals on here. I'm really glad about that, but I still miss some of the ones I remember from before who aren't here yet. I wonder how the missing folks are doing sometimes.
@AlisonW@actuallyautistic Yeah. I've probably searched for hundreds (definitely at least dozens) over the years. I've found maybe a hand full at most, but for some reason that small number makes me feel successful in the attempt. Weird.
"Places we slept as children:
they warm us in the memory "
#WhatTheGruffalosReading : the G-Man is reading @neilhimself 's What You Need to be Warm from @BloomsburyBooks , each purchase helps the UNHCR refugee programme, something that is sadly badly required all the more.
Random talkback on Israeli news sites in response to current events.
This one in response to Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attack in UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after his remark, in a speech to the UN Security Council, saying Hamas' attack did not happen in a vacuum.
“If our public face, advocacy and status rests on one sentence replete with historical truths and one sentence said by a redeemed female captive whose unhealthy husband and hundreds more are still held in Gaza - then we are the opposite of a wonderful nation. This is a weak, miserable, pathetic nation, managed by a gang of fascist garbage, that is more excited about volunteers feeding soldiers hamburgers than about human blood flowing like water with no hope.”
Israelis respond to Gilad Erdan's ( Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations) shamless, tone-deaf display of self-pity at the UN, while #Israel is standing accused of killing more than 8000 civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Listen carefully, you "cutting board" who mistakenly advanced to become Israel's ambassador to the UN: we are not in the #Holocaust. You are an ambassador of the sovereign state of #Israel, a country that according to foreign publications can wipe out the entire Middle East with the push of a button on the nuclear weapon. We have our own army and our own air force and nuclear submarines. Remember that for next time https://nitter.net/MatanAlcalay/status/1719225102875738192
No one does more to trivialize the holocaust than the governments of Israel for generations. And even in Erdan's tiny brain, the thought can be inserted: if so many things are "like the Holocaust", maybe the Holocaust is not so terrible. https://nitter.net/idanlandau/status/1719227634486256071#m
Zertal, Idith. "Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood" (2005)
A book talk with the author in which she reflects on some of the issues around the use of the #Holocaust in political discourse in Israel, and the insistence of some on seeing the victimizers as victims.
Raz Segal (associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University): #Israel must stop weaponising the #Holocaust
“A powerful state, with powerful allies and a powerful army, engaged in a retaliatory attack against stateless Palestinians under Israeli-settler colonial rule, military occupation and siege, is thus portrayed as powerless Jews in a struggle against Nazis.”
“More and more Holocaust and genocide studies scholars are refusing to allow the continuation of the dangerous use of the Holocaust to distort the historical reality of the Holocaust and Israeli mass violence against Palestinians.“
Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza
"Palestinian human rights organisations, Jewish civil society groups, #Holocaust and #genocide studies scholars and others have by now warned of an imminent genocide against the Palestinian population in #Gaza. We emphasise the existence of a serious risk of genocide being committed in the Gaza Strip."
If it’s going in something (e.g. dahl) I use the frozen stuff. If it’s to munch on raw or as leaves then I abandoned fresh spinach ages ago - Kale is much more robust and (IMO) tastes better.
This is an interesting and often funny discussion on myths, fantasy, childhood and how stories come to exist. @neilhimself is always fun to listen to and learn from
I thank all the people who have worried about me, I know that we all have bad moments at some point in our lives, I just hope that my bad moment ends soon and I can't stand so much suffering again💔
#Writers – send your work to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 42!
We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. Submission is free & all successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 October!