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monsterqueers) wrote2024-09-18 04:56 pm
monsterqueers) wrote2024-09-18 04:56 pm
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[CHATTER] Life updates, website updates, considering journal updates
Heyo!
Been awhile, whoops! Keep being busy or hanging out elsewhere and then just not updating, alas! Gotta be more consistent.
So life updates; we are trying harder to get on our bad sleep. We think its some flavor of sleep apnea, considering the waking up a lot in the night, sometimes out of breath, and the morning sore throat&dry mouth and headache, and the fatigue and the family history of sleep apnea, and our default breathing being really shallow. Doctor wanted to rule out thyroid with a blood test and that was predictably negative so made another appointment about it. Hopefully this time we get a sleep study!
Website updates; New links have been added and two new essays! Was gonna go for three but lost some steam. Someday we will reach the end of our link hoard that we still need to sort and be finally caught up, but today is not that day haha.
Essay 1: The Scent Thing - An essay about how two of us have our nonhuman identities intersect regarding specific behaviors around scent.
Essay 2: A Formal Critique of Consciousness Labels - an essay about 'consciousness labels' in the plural community and why they are not so great as a mandatory framework.
Considering journal updates:
Weve been wanting to be more active on dreamwidth- but our main issue is that by splitting our blog topics between fandom AND personal-plural-nonhuman stuff we have created a space that if we are more active many people will see lots of posts they didnt follow for in one sector or the other and fandom activity may cause people to be rude about the plural&nonhuman thing. So we are considering putting the fandom stuff (that we barely post here anyway) on another account and manage two personal accounts and the plural media review mirror account.
We feel like this change might actually get us to post more than once every 4 months or more lol.
Been awhile, whoops! Keep being busy or hanging out elsewhere and then just not updating, alas! Gotta be more consistent.
So life updates; we are trying harder to get on our bad sleep. We think its some flavor of sleep apnea, considering the waking up a lot in the night, sometimes out of breath, and the morning sore throat&dry mouth and headache, and the fatigue and the family history of sleep apnea, and our default breathing being really shallow. Doctor wanted to rule out thyroid with a blood test and that was predictably negative so made another appointment about it. Hopefully this time we get a sleep study!
Website updates; New links have been added and two new essays! Was gonna go for three but lost some steam. Someday we will reach the end of our link hoard that we still need to sort and be finally caught up, but today is not that day haha.
Essay 1: The Scent Thing - An essay about how two of us have our nonhuman identities intersect regarding specific behaviors around scent.
Essay 2: A Formal Critique of Consciousness Labels - an essay about 'consciousness labels' in the plural community and why they are not so great as a mandatory framework.
Considering journal updates:
Weve been wanting to be more active on dreamwidth- but our main issue is that by splitting our blog topics between fandom AND personal-plural-nonhuman stuff we have created a space that if we are more active many people will see lots of posts they didnt follow for in one sector or the other and fandom activity may cause people to be rude about the plural&nonhuman thing. So we are considering putting the fandom stuff (that we barely post here anyway) on another account and manage two personal accounts and the plural media review mirror account.
We feel like this change might actually get us to post more than once every 4 months or more lol.
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Oof yeah weve actually STILL seen this debate between Aspergers, HFA, 'level one autism', and 'highly sensitive person' and how to distinguish them come up in spaces online. As early as *this year* we saw discourse on tumblr about this- so no worries, we are familiar with a good portion of the autistic sublabel nitpicking you describe.
And yeah, microlabeling in autistic communities seems to often be an extension of the categorization-without-use-or-examining-the-system-it-lives-in thing. Everything Has to have a label to feel safe and comfortable to many of these people (to the point of it bordering on intrusive thought & compulsion territory that they Need to have a label or Else), and when people disturb their careful frameworks
You hit the nail right on the head about the source of the shadowboxing, sure the lifetime of interpersonal trauma autistics often have (as well as many plural folks) is a factor- but spaces like tumblr, twitter, and tiktok are violently awful to grow up in and cause people to Need to do this to not be jumped on by people with a hair trigger temper and zero reading comprehension. It reinforces this behavior severely and makes it so much worse. Because these sites are popular, their behavior then starts to leak out into other websites also(see discord servers often being horridly toxic, it oozing into reddit and other social medias, etc). No idea how to fix it beyond encouraging people to spend less time on social media, but the first step of fixing a solution is to identify the problem we guess.
This is perfectly fine! Long responses are fun, we dont mind them at all! Glad our post could inspire you!