Day: November 7, 2018

andromeda3116:

Odd thing, ain’t it… you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.

Jingo, by Terry Pratchett

Sitting on the couch, drinking a glass of passable red wine, reading a (marvellously, horribly relevant) Discworld novel, and… waiting. And waiting.

And waiting.

ainawgsd:

The eastern grass owl (Tyto longimembris), or Australian grass owl is a species of owl in the family Tytonidae. Though some authorities consider this owl to be conspecific with the African grass owl, T. capensis, other consider it to be a valid species. Eastern grass owls live in eastern, southern and southeast Asia, parts of New Guinea, Australia (mainly in Queensland) and the western Pacific. It has also been found in the coastal islands.Eastern grass owls are considered “least concern” globally, primarily because of their wide distribution.Within Australia Tyto longimembris is considered vulnerable on the New South Wales Threatened Species Conservation Act (1995).

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headspace-hotel:

wetwareproblem:

Since conversion therapy is looming in everyone’s consciousness right now:

This is your regular reminder that ABA, the generally-recommended therapy for autistic children, is literally conversion therapy with an extra dose of “auties aren’t even real people” thrown in for good measure. It was conceived by the same people, from the same research, for the same ends: To brutalize and torture children into a narrow range of “acceptable” behaviour.

And it is considered totally legitimate and valid and even preferred by the overwhelming majority of the medical industry.

Do not leave disabled people out of your activism.

To put it as simply as possible, conversion therapy IS ABA. Conversion therapy is ABA used to try to make people straight and its no less inhumane when used to make people neurotypical. 

Reminded by clutter blindness (useful term!) coming up in the context of posting notes for yourself not always working.

I know I’ve vented some before about my partner’s pretty extreme version of clutter blindness, and how badly that can interact with my tendencies in the complete opposite direction there: getting easily overwhelmed by clutter. To the point that I can end up way less functional in a number of ways, including ability to try to fix the clutter situation 😦

Anyway, for a while now I had been getting more irritated at Mr. C, because his clutter generation has increased a decent bit and he has seemed to notice/care even less. To the point of leaving a bunch of just plain trash lying around where he sits in the TV room floor, so it’s in the pathway and causing more problems. (And more clutter elsewhere, but it’s been super noticeable and aggravating there.)

The way my health has been getting worse, I just haven’t had the spoons to do much about it. Though it’s been causing me extra problems, on several levels. I figured at least part of the issue was probably because I haven’t been able to do nearly as much around here, prompting him to notice more and try to pick some of the shit up too.

(Not too surprisingly, I’ve also been working through a lot of trained reluctance to even say much. Especially when I “won’t” even do the thing myself. Yeah, that OCD loop programming sucks, but it can be frustratingly hard to work around with very limited mental energy.)

Another place where better communication earlier might have helped, though. After that little talk about a week ago? A number of other things started making more sense. Including the apparently increased executive function problems and clutter blindness.

With it likely coming from depression/burnout of some type? I’m a lot less aggravated at his behavior, and more concerned.

How to try to support/encourage him in dealing with that is another matter, but yeah. Complicated by the fact that he does hesitate to talk about things, to the point that I really didn’t pick up a lot of clues there might even be a problem earlier. I feel kind of bad about that, but here we are now.

neurodiversitysci:

finnglas:

lechadodi:

angelofgrace96:

“I’ll remember” is the ADHD demon talking. You won’t remember. Write it down.

bold of you to assume i’ll remember where i wrote it, or even that i wrote it

Visual exhaustion is another symptom of ADHD, which means that if we see something enough times (or we see enough instances of something), it fades into background noise and we fail to notice it.

This is why a lot of ADHD people can stand living surrounded by mess/clutter, because it’s just visual background noise to us. We don’t even notice it anymore.

So if we write something down and see the note stuck up somewhere a lot – or if we write a LOT of somethings down and have a lot of notes hanging around – then we’re even less likely to think of/remember the thing because it’s just part of the scenery now.

ADHD is the Catch-22 of brains.

This is one of the best descriptions of clutter blindness I’ve ever seen.