Corina Becker at No Stereotypes Here: Real Communication Shutdown
I was recently asked by a person on Twitter to participate, and I responded that there wasn’t much of a point, since I am Autistic, and do not require to learn about difficulties that I myself face in communicating.
in my forays into foreign languages, I have discovered that if I speak slowly and focus on pronunciation I automatically slip into stronger therapy. And I do mean automatically. And, like, I can’t even think “okay, I’m going to talk normally now”, I actually have to intentionally try and modify various sounds to be untherapylike. . .
Katherine Creag at My Fox NY: Woman Couldn’t Buy Inhaler During Asthma Attack
“I had exactly a twenty-dollar bill. It came to twenty-one and change,” Jack Brown said. “I offered him my cell phone, my wallet. I said I live right around the corner. I come in here all the time.”
He was told the inhaler with tax would cost just over $21. He was short a dollar and change.
staticnonsense at Some Assembly Required: Intersections of Disability and Transgenderism
Trans people get othered a lot. We’re pushed off as crazy, disordered, for challenging the social norms of gender and sex. Either by choice in trying to deconstruct this ancient structure, or simply by existing. Throughout history we’ve been institutionalized or “fixed” (or tried to be) simply for existing as ourselves in a world that focuses so strongly on the cissexist concept of penis = man = masculine and vagina = woman = feminine. Even now the disconnect of the body and one’s self identity is seen as a disorder, one that mu
Chally at Feministe: Unreality and the politics of experience
And it’s a bizarre experience because the person in the best position to speak about their own experiences and emotions is the person who has them. And, personally, I find the desire to go over horrible experiences with a fine tooth comb, tease them out, decide – retrospectively, calmly, objectively – on an appropriate response, (an appropriate reaction is whatever I judge to be appropriate, thank you very much) to add a whole new sickening layer to what I experienced. And then there are those demands for more details and irrelevant details and painful details, because whoever is “listening” thinks they get to decide what’s important.
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Corina Becker is now suggesting that Nov 1 be Autistics Speaking Day.
Personally I thought the shutdown was a bad idea as well, not only for the reasons Corina explained but also because of others I know whose only means of communicating with their friends is through the Internet, including Facebook, because they’re housebound or bedridden. Whoever came up with that idea really didn’t think it through.
Thank you for the link, Annaham. I’m flattered you liked the post that much.
Thank you so much for the link. I honestly didn’t think people would like that post as much as they do, but I’m glad so many can relate (though maybe ‘glad’ isn’t quite the right word here?)