“The kind of writing that can be scored by a computer program (or by a human being chained to an algorithm that renders the human no smarter than a computer program) is not good writing.”
Readying my Autism Awareness Month and Autism Speaks counter-narratives.
Navigating Autism Acceptance Month and Autism Myths
I’m Autistic. Here’s what I’d like you to know.
Education, Neurodiversity, the Social Model of Disability, and Real Life
Identity First
Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Coping and Passing
“Inspiration porn. What’s that?
“It’s a portrayal of people with disabilities as one-dimensional saints who only exist to warm the hearts and open the minds of able-bodied people.”
A month ago, I wrote Feedly support suggesting they give Feed Hawk API access. They replied saying they’d see about granting a key.
Glad to see Feed Hawk now supports Feedly. I just added a feed with it.
https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/2018/03/feed-hawk-17-adds-support-for-feedly/
tfw you meet an educator or healthcare worker conversant in the social model. You get to skip so much bootstrapping and worldview translation loss.
Education, Neurodiversity, the Social Model of Disability, and Real Life
Parents of neurodivergent and disabled kids get really mixed messages. Finding the social model is a slog through societal mires.
The relief experienced upon finding it shouldn’t require an epic quest.
Education, Neurodiversity, the Social Model of Disability, and Real Life
“Any analysis of DeVos that doesn’t factor in her religious views, her brand of Midwestern fundamentalism, is a mistake.”
http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2018/03/devos-in-this-world.html
“Let’s assume that getting a good education to every child is not a goal. Let’s assume instead that the goal is to have education functioning on the free market, free of public institutions and government meddling. Let’s assume that seeing some businesses prosper and profit is further proof that the market is working properly. Let’s assume that directing public money to religious schools at the expense of government programs is a desirable and commendable outcome. In fact, let’s assume that in such a system, having some schools and students sink to the bottom is a desirable outcome, because the free market is supposed to reward the deserving and allow the undeserving to sink to the low level where they belong. And if gutting public education has the effect of gutting unions and taking power away from those damn Godless Democrats, well, that’s only right, too.”
If we assume those things, then Michigan and Florida are unqualified successes.
Any analysis of DeVos that doesn’t factor in her religious views, her brand of Midwestern fundamentalism, is a mistake.
Whatever comes next needs to bring psychological safety to the serendipity and encourage a culture of comping.
To unpack all of that:
/me adds “Psychological Safety and the Medical Model” to the list of posts to publish.
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