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hi tumblr! this feels like a silly post to make, since i keep a low profile here to begin with, but the next few months are pretty high stakes for me in terms of research commitments & grad school applications (i take the gre tomorrow!) and as such i think i’m going to take something of an internet hiatus. i hope everyone is doing well and spends a lot of time thinking about sirius and remus hiking the appalachian trail together in my absence <3
note to self: don’t trust anyone who likes you better after you cry in front of them
i love not being able to identify physical sensations
sunset by Loish
I Am the One Who Will Remember Everything Video: Harry Potter Music: Dar Williams Notes: Premiered at Wiscon 41, “Come over here, kid, we’ve got all these books to read.” Professor Minerva McGonagall, memory, war, resistance and hope. Or stream or download at my Dreamwidth.
i started my summer job yesterday! the key points: 1) i miraculously got assigned a window desk with lovely sunset light despite being the only undergrad in the office, and 2) my first assignment is to read & summarize two books about a longtime mini-special interest
Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of variations on a story that goes “Autistic people love detail, and it makes them naturally well suited for repetitive jobs that most people find intolerably boring.”
This is usually said with great fanfare, and described as a step away from stigma and towards celebration.
But — autistic people don’t all have a convenient love of tedious tasks. Some of us find them as boring as everyone else does.
This model of “autistic strengths” celebrates us doing jobs everyone else hates. It has no room for us to pursue jobs that others want. We’re supposed to stay in a special place for special people, doing the boring tasks the ideology says we love — and making no trouble for the normal people who do the interesting jobs.
This isn’t ok, and it isn’t acceptance. Some of us like things that others don’t, but none of us should be forced into a box. Autistic people have the full range of interests, talents, and skills that anyone else does. We shouldn’t be tracked into jobs based on stereotypes. We have the right to decide for ourselves what to pursue.
Gail Albert Halaban (American, b. 1970) Out My Window, Chelsea, 20 West 29th Street, Ace Hotel, Woman Cleaning Window, Last Room of the Day, 2010 ©Gail Albert Halaban/Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery
I know what can hurt me real bad, and what can’t hurt me anymore.
@montpahrnah tagged me to post the first ten songs that showed up on spotify shuffle!
i’m tagging @callmeverity, @girlmonsters, @idionkisson, @ababelofprose, @whatisthiswitchcraft and @aeide-thea if any of you want to do it! but no pressure if yr busy :)
Vertical Emptiness FP - Yasuaki Onishi.
after John Cage
1. only ask the questions to which you really need answers
2. demonstrate uncertainty
3. reconstruct for your students your own previous errors of thought and elucidate to your students what factors lead to a changed mind
4. do not let the terms with which you understand the world get in the way of understanding it
5. give up any desire to be the smartest person in the room
6. remember that students have bodies and that bodies require movement, sustenance, rest, and relief
7. leave an inheritance of dialectic
8. preserve and sustain whatever delusions you’ve found necessary to behave in good faith
9. every student is a genius
10. do not be afraid to state the obvious
11. a socratic bully is still a bully
12. thoroughly prepare class, including making preparations to abandon your preparations entirely
13. listen with your body
14. suspect charisma
15. conduct yourself in such a way that your students can eventually forget that you exist
Game Of Pricks // Guided By Voices
