Post No. 2,753 - Some interesting reading/viewing

Here are some llinks that might of interest or value:

• “How to tell the difference between healthy and unhealthy social withdrawal”   https://youtu.be/Nn1XaEHwQ6g?si=_sqARrk5V7zMdPXD   

• “7 Signs You’re Suffering from An Inner Child Wound”   https://youtu.be/ulfs2isGTqk?si=PJF8OxXHbO78y0ZH   

• “The Call Of Cernunnos | John Beckett”   https://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2024/03/the-call-of-cernunnos.html   Another excellent, reflective, and informative article  

• this week’s “afterlife report” by the  Zammits (see here for zoom meeting opportunities):  
     https://victorzammit.com/April5th2024/  
  

• my recent posts on my political blog:  
• From the news on:     society generally, and broader issues,     the climate crisis, environmental issues, and nuclear threats/issues,     human rights and humanitarian aid,     the war in West Asia,     and     politics & democracy, and international affairs;
  
  
• “Trans Day of Visibility”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/03/trans-day-of-visibility.html   “In remembrance of the revered youth worker and social justice activist Les Twentyman: Rest in Power”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/04/in-remembrance-of-revered-youth-worker.html    “On privilege”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/04/on-privilege.html   “On Gaza [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on violence/abuse/war. Reader discretion is advised]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/04/on-gaza-note-content-warning-links-to.html  
  

• also from YouTube:

• “Gender in Viking (and other eras) Re-enactment”   https://youtu.be/vNdXooFnbbo?si=UOMMiA8Eqm7hMFPV   An excellent consideration of the topic, incluing the issues of change and purpose  
  
  
• “Study: Guns, Germs, and Steel was Wrong”   https://youtu.be/9-aK_Rwr7wI?si=je3rw0S0ESgmU-_X   This is actually a thoughtful examination of the topic. Well worth a view and some thinking 
  
  
• from YouTube and elsewhere on neurodivergence: 
• “World Autism Awareness Day 2024”   https://www.un.org/en/observances/autism-day   “Moving from Surviving to Thriving”    Apparently the US-initiated (and based?) Autism Acceptance Month started as Autism Awareness Month in 1970s (started by the [US] “National Autism Society”) - see   https://www.neurologyadvisor.com/topics/autism-spectrum-disorder/autism-acceptance-month-history-and-impact/  
  
  
• the draft (Australian) National Autism Strategy has been released for comment:   “The National Autism Strategy is urgently needed. Does the government’s new draft do enough to help those in crisis?”   https://theconversation.com/the-national-autism-strategy-is-urgently-needed-does-the-governments-new-draft-do-enough-to-help-those-in-crisis-226966   The article actually goes beyond those in crisis, and gives a reasonable overview, although masking is not mentioned - again.   “Developing the National Autism Strategy”   https://engage.dss.gov.au/developing-the-national-autism-strategy/   Has links to all the other necessary pages   “Consultation report (Stage 2) - Summary version”   https://engage.dss.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/NAS_report_summary_v4_final.pdf   “Draft National Autism Strategy”   https://engage.dss.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/draft-national-autism-strategy.pdf   52 pages   “Resources”   https://engage.dss.gov.au/developing-the-national-autism-strategy/developing-the-national-autism-strategy-resources/   
  
  
• “The neurodiversity concept was developed collectively: An overdue correction on the origins of neurodiversity theory - Monique Botha, Robert Chapman, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Steven K Kapp, Abs Stannard Ashley, Nick Walker, 2024”   https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13623613241237871   This is major   
  
  
• from Ponderful:
  - “Working While Autistic”   https://youtu.be/K12fNNLWzvY?si=2OPUDFqy24y2XDHh   
  
  
• from Orion Kelly - That Autistic Guy:
  - “Why I HATE Autism Awareness Day - Unmasked, Unedited Autistic Person (Part 8)”   https://youtu.be/Cl2XAZKfNZI?si=uG93IwPNcatInI20   A lot of very good points   
  
  

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

 

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