Useful overview of neurodiversity
A lot of the work in neurodiversity now seems to be suggesting that grouping traits together and circling that and calling it a thing isn’t the best way to reason about this. Insurance companies really love it.
– Myk Bolokonsky, Things Every Software Engineer Should Know About Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity provides an alternate take on traits that are common to ADHD, autism, OCD, and others. Myk’s talk summarizes them better than I could, and better than resources I could find for linking.
The talk lasts half an hour including questions. Some occasional audio issues thanks to everyone’s new remote life, but the transcript makes following easier.
Some new / clarified bits for me — aside from the above quote:
- many folks experience these traits, but their intensity for neurodivergent folks is such that we must plan our lives around them
- useful medical information is not widely available
- “dead time” oh god that thing where your brain won’t let you do something now because you’re planning to do something later
- description of “autistic burnout” sounds like something I’m going through right now
Activity Log
hackers.town: 2020-04-14 Tue 11:33
#knitting a hat!
Casting on! Dang, ran out of tail yarn.
Casting on! Oh I misread the numbers. Too big for a hat, too small for a sweater.
Casting on! Dangit I just knit two rows with the tail yarn.
Casting on! Overcompensated and ran out of tail yarn.
Casting on! —
hackers.town: 2020-04-14 Tue 13:40
If that small child was a car, it would have a straight pipe exhaust, a spoiler, and be covered in stickers.
I’m saying that’s a loud kid. Sure glad I don’t live next door. Or two houses down. Or three.
Sweet Jesus that kid is loud. At least those are happy noises (having a water gun fight)
hackers.town: 2020-04-14 Tue 14:08
bring on the horny dune memes
Awwww yeeeaaahhhh via https://twitter.com/DelDryden/status/1250161540566843392
hackers.town: 2020-04-14 Tue 17:34
Forget the six foot rule. I got another one, mainly helpful for nonsmokers.
Imagine everyone else smokes. Must be hiding a cigarette even now. How far away would you need to be to not smell them? Stay that far away.
6 feet? 10? Across the street? A block away? Do it.
Twitter: 2020-04-14 Tue 18:08
My way of social distancing: bellowing “SHUT UP” from my bed to the screaming neighbor children. Hey, I’m sick and I need my rest.
now i know why everything was so quiet when i got back from errands
even the birds were hiding
hackers.town: 2020-04-14 Tue 20:54
listening and reserving judgment until finished
#nowplaying #fediplay
Billy Idol - “Cyberpunk”
https://album.link/i/1442990930
Twitter: 2020-04-14 Tue 20:55
well they’ve seen everything by now
it’s the logical next step
https://twitter.com/IamMrsGeek/status/1250266768137805824
Twitter: 2020-04-14 Tue 21:27
never
https://twitter.com/dril_eaboo/status/1250209411693502469
hackers.town: 2020-04-14 Tue 22:24
Erm. Holy frijoles. From-scratch build of my site took two minutes (or 122446 milliseconds, as reported by Hugo) on my otherwise minimally occupied machine.
This sort of SSG abuse is why I don’t use Netlify incidentally. Had to extend the timeouts way way up when I tried.
Twitter: 2020-04-14 Tue 22:43
“It’s a trick. Get an axe.”
“We’re werewolves, not swear-wolves.”
“What’s a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this?”
“I SCREAM. YOU SCREAM. WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!”
Once I thought of one, they just kept popping into my head.
https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1250030391471353856
hackers.town: 2020-04-14 Tue 22:51
She caught me puttering this afternoon.
Not too hard to do, really.
