I think maybe describing yourself/ourselves as a personality stack, maybe like a burger, could be helpful. That doesn't mean that you have the ability to describe every slice or element all the time but that it's a manageable concept to play with and develop!?
My bun is autistic, specifically a tendency to overspeak sometimes, to overshare/go low, and to pedantic speech with additional speech pathology, mh & academic problems, thinking/datahandling & physical coordination issues, but it's still a rich bun. Brioche. Ponderous. Parent!?
Jan 11, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
My husband's talking about old news: Larium the anti-malarial that caused severe mental health episodes in a substantial percentage of people. Gulf War syndrome & Larium antimalarial were linked. He remembers old discussion. Soldiers binned it, often. Rumoured link to a massacre
where a young male soldier shot six Iraqis because he was hallucinating & FUBAR on Larium.
Husband thinks it made his mother unwell too.
Quickly developed by US military, passed on to private company for distribution, it wasn't investigated enough, third stage trials delayed.
Jan 10, 2022 • 29 tweets • 5 min read
Clinical authoratative tone, mood, register (whatevs) in combination with formal nouns/noun phrases communicate blame, conflict & diminishment inherently except for the security of how your interests are placed in perceived context: psychology, MDs, friends, family, community MMV
It's in the word choices, their nuance, speech rhythms that come over in text and indeed the social standing & whether that role is perceived & played as one of censure or expert collaboration. Or potentially could be - strangers have outsized impact; a risk-focused instinct!?🤷
Jan 10, 2022 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Eye contact is different for different people and oversimplified. Some people find it uncomfortable, it can also seem like flirting or sexual interest as actually normal eye contact isn't constant & direct. It's a few seconds when you make a point? Like hugging & physical contact
it has a rhythm!? It's the timing or extended length of time that makes it more likely to seem sexual.
Everyone knows that there are many ways to see the same facts often. And that emotional/sensory/anxious/nervy responses are a fact of life that can become practical issues.
@TentacleBunnyTV@Joseph_wolfstar@AspieHuman We can remind people & challenge assumptions, challenge general patterns of punitive/dismissive/suppressive reactions. Or find and use our own power and means to reinforce a point.
However I hate it when everything feels like melee & doubled down. Not 100% catastrophising there!?
May 26, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Charity/Taxes 1. Discussion as to how we avoid being Stazi or Magdalene Nuns or Gotham baddies
2. Still leave some room for narratives that go somewhere inside of a realistic idea of an evolving complex polycentric internationalist (free/collaborative) socialism. As a setting.
Capital vs Society 1. What does capital mean? 2. What are social behaviours? 3. What is society?
Feb 23, 2020 • 20 tweets • 11 min read
@chromesthesia@commaficionado I suppose Lyra is a bit of an NT fantasy in some ways, a bit like Elsa. A normalised and accentualised (just made that up or it came to me - like a combo of accent and actualisation) - and was like a combination of who people in the community told me I was supposed to be
@chromesthesia@commaficionado and my actual ideal self, who I wanted to be or was in my head. Quixotic complex passion, sometimes naive but without fault in that since it was coming from a good place and made outside the box.
Aug 1, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
#IHateWhenPeopleAskMe when I am coming to bed or doing anything useful even if am not happy with my procrastination or general listless lackadaisical mix of compulsive agitation and ennui.
It's not completely laziness in the sense of deliberate inaction but it is not exactly inability either.
Jun 23, 2019 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
@iainmacwhirter We could say, use the term 'natural-born vulva' instead!?
I like to think of people as something more than one single level of identification. Fighting biological oppression and other forms of sexism is not the same as forced identification/suppression of identity.
@iainmacwhirter We call the conservatives Tory's and the origins of that is based on ancient anti-Irish prejudice. Everybody throws around ableist terms in ways that try to keep disabled people out/shamed and/or demonise enemies by tagging that way!? Nobody is using terf or cis that way.
Mar 31, 2019 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
@GeorgeMonbiot How do we get 'political mobilisation...addressing these vast issues: demanding structural and systemic solutions to structural and systemic problems.' - it's vitally important, otherwise this is just sounding off &yet devolving any responsibility for what kind of revolution, eh?
@GeorgeMonbiot So - plastic and Carbon emissions are linked by the power issues, the industries are the same: petrochemicals is fossil fuels and vice versa (I knew that really, somewhere!) so they aren't entirely seperate pots of environmental responsibility/guilt as I said last night, (thread)
Mar 25, 2019 • 32 tweets • 6 min read
Can the state ever deliver either compassion or effective mental health or disability care!? Or any organisation or body? Is it just too faceless and compounded by structural and personality issues and conflicted interests? Why isn't pessimism the answer? Why's capitalism narrow
How can we be sure of anything? Is it all hopeless? CMHT sent a guy to 'assess'/visit a while ago - he just bamboozled me with info-dump about coping strategies - and as I induced him to admit he was mostly just trying to bump me out of my frame of mind; I found that abusive but
Mar 14, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
They tell people 'get on yer bike' - 'make your own luck' - we tell it to each other: now look. The ethical considerations, the ideological interplay with realpolitik - it makes me sick: bends minds with the complexity of a Mandelbrot set! We are all leaders, and all led. Plumb.
We are all interdependent of each other: now this is a basic you have to sell over. It's a wheel within a wheel within a wheel. Second nature, second sight: from CBT and finance to rocks and water, everything's a cycle, right!? But you can't fix a jigsaw by pedalling harder.
I have a very dirty mirror.