Trust is to human society as water is to life. It is the necessary precursor to every relationship, no matter how minor or fleeting. Trust is something you cannot have or build by yourself; it requires another being to build with, and it requires time. There are no surefire shortcuts to build trust. On the …
Month: September 2020
2AM
2am is not a normal time to be awake, and yet I am more often than not. I don't work the graveyard shift or anything... Typical day job for this lady. And yet. And still. Some nights I just don't feel tired and I end up working or writing or reading, completely losing track of …
Superheroes Will NOT Save Us
We are in a very dark place. Where I live, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, we are currently experiencing institutional failure after institutional failure. Human tragedies stacked upon each other in such quick succession that we are growing numb. It started with the COVID-19 pandemic in March. Then there was the growing …
Autism, Gaslighting and Working in Corporate America
I have been thinking about this post for a while. It seems as though my personal situation is not unique. So many people, especially women, are being diagnosed as autistic in the last few years and from most accounts I've seen, the diagnosis is freeing. It feels like coming home, or finally having found the …
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Reprioritization
There's something about an external disruption that can bring clarity of purpose, if you are looking for it. Over the last 6 months, many people I know personally have taken the opportunity of the pandemic to make major shifts in attention and intention, to refocus their lives toward new goals. Some people who were permanent …
Autism and Politics
I have a theory that autistic people are generally personally (small c) conservative while being politically (capital L) Liberal. There are a number of reasons for this. First of all, we tend to not like change very much, at least change that is unpredictable or that we cannot control. We have many "rules" we write …
Pandemic Revelations
I am starting to see some patterns in some of the "normal" white people I follow on Twitter and elsewhere. The narrative goes something like 'Has anyone else started to feel a little guilty about XYZ?' These statements reflect recent revelations about race, gender/pay inequities, or even autism. Like it NEVER occurred to these people …
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