misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

(Lol started typing this in weirder earth, expected it to be 2 or 3 toots, then it kept going so i was like heck it, bring it here.)

I saw a little comedy video piece with an autistic standup basically doing the ol' "flip the script" (treating autism as the norm, nonautism as pathologised)

But one thing he said stuck out to me, and i remembered just now when i just had a whinge about routine (again) at another pal (paraphrased, because i don't remember exactly):

"[My nonautistic brother] goes to a school that's tailored to his specialised learning needs"

And... that's exactly it, right?

I didn't really get it, fully, until now, that i am actually studying on Hard Mode. I mean, I've dialled back the difficulty by studying part-time but...

Living on my own means there's a Lot of day-to-day stuff I Must do, by myself, unprompted and unsupported. The way ADHD usually works is basically in direct opposition to what's needed for daily living, so a large portion of my energy is used in the Most Inefficient Manner Possible.

The way the classes are set up prevents settling into a daily routine; the way terms are structured prevents settling into a weekly routine. This means more mental effort is spent on building a routine, and figuring out / remembering what comes next. Again, this is inefficient use of my brain.

And the learning structure itself? I do part time because, on top of the above, i do not have room in my brain to really engage with 3-4 topics at once.

Traditional teaching - presumably somewhat suitable for NT folk - is the exact opposite of how i learn. They mix up topics more, I'm best to stick with one or two more intensely, with a refresher later on. They teach top-down, eg they've given us a reading that includes the types of qualitative research, similarities and differences. We've started looking (one per week) at a journal article and answered questions on it. Most likely we'll soon get a journal article that's one of those subtypes, and the following week one that's another. "It's this type of qualitative study due to xyz features"

Fuck that. I learn bottom-up. Gimme a journal article or two, study it/them closely, pick out some features (or similarities & differences), and then go, "okay, so those features you picked out makes that one xyz type, and this one abc type. Here's the difference in purpose / use. Here's another article to compare to those, etc etc" until we get through the types.

And the way a lot of classes are set up like "okay we'll learn these things to a basic level now, then we'll learn them in more detail next year, and even more detail the final year" or we could just jump in and get straight into learning it to the extent we'll need to? We can revise it again later.

Yeah. The NTs are getting classes roughly tailored to how they learn best, I'm getting the opposite. I'm basically only managing as well as i am because i'm part time, pretty good at remembering / making connections, and have a fair bit of background understanding already.

But I'm also struggling the whole way because /basically every major aspect of my life is set up in direct opposition to how my brain works best/. That's playing on hard mode.

(This isn't to dismiss their struggles - poorer memory (though mine's been getting worse, too), having to do home/ADL stuff AS WELL AS full-time study, many of them don't have a heck of a lot of background knowledge to make current learning easier, most of them are also reasonably fresh out of highschool and so having to figure out independence, personal responsibility & management, sensibly managing newfound freedoms, etc etc)

RT @mimismartypants@twitter.com

If you are hiking in a group and waiting for slower people to catch up, don't start walking again when they do catch up, because then you got a rest and they didn't.

I think about this tip a lot, in many different contexts.

The workers of the GMG Union -- my former workplace and a union I helped organize -- are officially on strike.

Among the issues they're striking for include ending the practice of forced relocations (which led to the mass departure of The Onion AV Club staff), remote work rights and full coverage of transgender healthcare costs.

How can you help? While the strike is ongoing, do not visit or contribute to any G/O Media websites (Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker, and The Root)

🦆 ipa for horse noises
🦆🦆 "ipa" horse blow snore snort
🦆🦆🦆 +"international phonetic" +"place of articulation" +"nostrils"

Good morning everypony! Today, may you have immunity to propaganda

Today, may neither of your mutual enemies' plans survive their first encounter with each other. May you, you survivors all, gain safety again.

FUN FACT: the "bystander effect" is bullshit

during the first "studies" done into it, the test subjects knew it was part of an experiment... so that data is completely useless. more recent studies done using actual real scenarios recorded on security cameras show people will nearly always intervene unless there's a danger preventing them from doing so

https://nscr.nl/en/bystander-blijkt-wel-degelijk-in-actie-te-komen-bij-ruzie-op-straat/

#VantaFacts

(rolls on the random encounter table:) A pit pony with cute little eye protectors is here. Its kobold friends have attached a little note to its harness that reads "frendly, NOT a monster! Wont attak, just wants carots + scritchs"

Who called it a dumpster fire and not a binferno

Increasingly inclined to consider "neuro-privileged" as a more accurate term than "neurotypical," given how the pervasiveness of neurodivergence seems grossly underestimated.

I really appreciate that today's XKCD is perfectly singable https://xkcd.com/2583/

me: mac and cheese. Horrid American invention, a slap in the face of Italian cooki

English manuscript from c. 1390, collected in 1780 in The Forme of Cury: "Makerouns: Take and make a thynne foyle of dowh. and kerve it on pieces, and cast hem on boiling water & seeþ it well. take cheese and grate it and butter cast bynethen and above as losyns*. and serue forth."

* Lasagne. Ish.