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It Takes A Village
Apr. 4th, 2023 03:27 pmSome days I just feel extra autistic.
What do I mean by that? It just feels like I'm some other species, like social assumptions/expectations don't land and I'm furiously taking notes, having feelings about things, and taking more notes.
Thoughts in no particular order, possibly bullshit, but just stream of consciousness about this.
For instance, the expectation that "it takes a village to raise a child" has been a really interesting deep dive this week.
( Read more... )What mostly generates undertones of surprise is just how righteous everyone acts from all these angles. Indignation that they are expected to help/won't help/won't help in the way idealized. Pushing and pulling and attempts at narrating ideal ways of connection and support when rarely the narrator even bothers to see things from the other angles. Exhausting, fascinating, usually with none of the above discussing desires, extrapolations, or really anything with any of the others involved beyond labels of "rudeness/selfishness" all around.
What do I mean by that? It just feels like I'm some other species, like social assumptions/expectations don't land and I'm furiously taking notes, having feelings about things, and taking more notes.
Thoughts in no particular order, possibly bullshit, but just stream of consciousness about this.
For instance, the expectation that "it takes a village to raise a child" has been a really interesting deep dive this week.
( Read more... )What mostly generates undertones of surprise is just how righteous everyone acts from all these angles. Indignation that they are expected to help/won't help/won't help in the way idealized. Pushing and pulling and attempts at narrating ideal ways of connection and support when rarely the narrator even bothers to see things from the other angles. Exhausting, fascinating, usually with none of the above discussing desires, extrapolations, or really anything with any of the others involved beyond labels of "rudeness/selfishness" all around.
