Gonna use daily template / truth-or-truth, planning w jaime, relaxing w topaz

[belenen]

icon: "progressing (a deeply, vividly green forest of thick vines and trees, with a tunnel running through where unused train tracks lay)"I'm gonna attempt to write more often and to bolster this effort, I'm gonna try to write daily summaries if I don't already have something else written. I hope that this doesn't make my LJ boring or make people

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[kiwi]

I don't want to be THAT person who focuses just on the food aspect of this post because the rest of it is a great post, too, but I have never in my life thought of putting fresh mint on brownies and it's now ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT. BRILLIANT!

[chillychilly22]

Just maybe one day I'll have the courage to join in Truth or Truth. :)

"I was thinking about autism and how it's looked at as a dysfunction, but I could see how it could be an evolutionary adaptation to an environment that is unacceptably busy and fake. Perhaps our species is evolving to be less prone to / capable of this capitalist bullshit because it's terrible for everyone."

I think about autism being evolutionary adaptation as well... tho not in that way, but I do like where you're going with it! I probe the thoughts of my social worker friends to see how the system views autism. The feedback I get is they don't really concern themselves with "why" but rather with "how can we help them fit into society".

[webgirluk]

"Also, I was thinking about autism and how it's looked at as a dysfunction, but I could see how it could be an evolutionary adaptation to an environment that is unacceptably busy and fake. Perhaps our species is evolving to be less prone to / capable of this capitalist bullshit because it's terrible for everyone. Or maybe I'm just universalizing my own feeling of increased safety around people on the autism spectrum."

I love these words and reasonate with them well. I too feel more comfortable with people who consider themselves to be "on the spectrum" and often seem to connect best with these people as I have similar traits myself. It's quite possible that what society decides to label as a dysfunction isn't actually one.