It is the true teacher who leaves the class knowing they have learned the most.
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Absolutely the same topic. That is a wonderful story. My father was the math/science geek. Mom, literature and social justice. Both encouraged all of us we were capable of everything. My mom had conditions, she wanted me to be just like her so I heard a lot of "You can't do math"
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Isn't it interesting, then, when we live life as honestly as a human can about conditions we face, we are still not believed by many? This, I think, is because we are guided by mythology and imagination. Reality is often brutal, but for me, it is the brutal that brings courage.
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To quote Layne Stayley "If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead." I don't know how he feels in death, but I have left the world twice and for me, it was a completely empty void. Like before life. No lights, until I was resucitated. I do not thrive unless I am true to my being.
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It wasn't until well into my career that the discrepancies in pay, the courage or desire (I'm not very materialistic) to push for money wasn't in my playbook. It still isn't. Education, advocacy, service are my values as is authentic out loud often disruptive even rude opinions.
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Because I was an early figure on the Web stage and a strong voice, women began wondering why I didn't identify as feminist, stand for women and girls first and foremost. It's personal. Women were the ones who kept me away from math and science and tech. Men did not. Isms exclude.
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Turns out I simply liked science and shop and stuff boys got to do, it wasn't related to gender identity for me at all. But I was still considered "too interested" and forced to take Home Economics, which put me in a kitchen and at a sewing machine. Who was apart from ability?
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interferences in my life were completely woven in with the ones that looked "mental." In Junior High I was sent to the school psych because I chose biology and shop for "electives". It wasn't "healthy" for a girl, only 2 years after the DSM removed Homosexuality as a disorder!
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My online life, education, career and 12 years of F2F joy with people as I traveled were hard-won. Few realized just how many conditions I was managing as I learned to mask them without intentionally doing so. And it wasn't until I was reevaluated in Las Vegas that the physical
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Now we know 90 percent of our Seratonin is produced in our gut, some in our platelets, and some in our brain. We know so little yet beleive we know so much. Yet we base economic, physical and social constraints on differences that are simply life conditions of degree and number.
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Do Psych folk ask about Traumatic Brain Injuries or medical issues? Do they even read a person's medical history? Even the assumption that Seratonin is a "brain" chemical is in research science being revealed to exist elsewhere. 10 years or so, it was found in our guts too. 6)
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Do Psychiatrists touch their patients? No. Do they test seratonin levels? No. Do they prescribe SSRIs if "depression" criteria is met? Yes, even when it's not. What we define as mental illness also does not look too hard if at all at true precipitating factors, rather assumes. 5)
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And we all tend to choose terms that are difficult. The entire concept of Mind is abstract, yet we submit to the differentiation of mind/body. The only empiric data in psychology is either overwhelming observation of consistent patterns and when we look at an entire being. 4)
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So the word Disability cancels itself out. Inclusion? It implies exclusion. So when we say we must be inclusive, we are also reinforcing the concept of exclusion in our language. Physics: To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Surely, we do need common terms 3)
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days I was the disABILITIES (how it was represented) roundtable SysOp, where I first learned the term "TAB" for 'temporarily able bodied' which was an early exposure to the ideas I now have about language much less the idea that there is a person out there able to do anything! 2)
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A lot of folks have been writing about ableist language and what that means. My semantically obsessed brain starts with the words we as #a11y advocates and pracitioners use. Disabled is a problem. It means "apart" from able. All humans are apart from some "able". In GEnie BBS 1).
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For me it has to be history scholarship and education now. I just I have no interest in developing or designing actual sites or software in today's modern approach.
1. The Internet is not the Web.
2. Web community is not Social Media.
3. Social Media is rarely community.
All of these things are related. They are emphatically not the same. To have said this for decades grows tiresome.
#Internet #Web #SocialMedia #Networks #Community #Words
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There are people in this world who are so focused and have such blinders on in order to not be startled by truth it's sickening. This is why I'm going towards scholarship rather than practice now. Education is a pillar of foundation and we lack it. It hurts us and the world.
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