So people like you or me can talk to people about lived reality, not just that which gets put in textbooks or papers.
I was thinking that; I'd really love to tell people the things I wish I'd known, or that my parents had known, when I was growing up.
I totally understand why some autistic people need to see a space a few times before being familiar enough with it to feel more comfortable...
Absolutely. I'm completely different in a new place than I am someplace I've been before. I feel like it can change my whole personality.
I find I can't process people/movements properly and cos I can't hear reliably I don't know where people are by sound.
Ugh this sounds so exhausting! I'm fortunate to have typical hearing, I do rely on it a lot, especially when I'm tired.
I wish there was better general awareness of them in terms of designing and creating the world we live in.
A lot of my disability activism these days is related to this, whether the place be a public transport hub or a vaccine pop-up centre. It's interesting work, if frustrating sometimes.
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Date: 2021-12-05 05:47 pm (UTC)I was thinking that; I'd really love to tell people the things I wish I'd known, or that my parents had known, when I was growing up.
I totally understand why some autistic people need to see a space a few times before being familiar enough with it to feel more comfortable...
Absolutely. I'm completely different in a new place than I am someplace I've been before. I feel like it can change my whole personality.
I find I can't process people/movements properly and cos I can't hear reliably I don't know where people are by sound.
Ugh this sounds so exhausting! I'm fortunate to have typical hearing, I do rely on it a lot, especially when I'm tired.
I wish there was better general awareness of them in terms of designing and creating the world we live in.
A lot of my disability activism these days is related to this, whether the place be a public transport hub or a vaccine pop-up centre. It's interesting work, if frustrating sometimes.