Dear friend, thank you for using your white privilege to help others and improve the world. Thank you for using your thin privilege and hot privilege to help the world too, including helping people like me who might not have thin and hot privilege. Thank you for using your abled-ness and your abled privilege… Read More »
Would you like to know some things I’ve learned lately? I would consider them conclusions. I experience the world, have reactions, and sometimes it takes me a while to connect dots and decide meaning. These are things I’ve learned lately, the decisions. multiply worker time estimates times three When we were told the electrical work… Read More »
Hey, here are my September prayer requests, if you would like to pray along. Thank you for your love and any prayer you can spare. These requests are pretty similar to last month’s. I’m still looking for new ways to ask for help, that work for me, and don’t just stress me more. September prayer… Read More »
Hey, I made this art about a quote I like. “It is kind to ask for help. The one who cannot ask for help, cannot be trusted.” –the Nuu-chah-nulth tribe of first nation people on the Pacific West Coast, Canada/Vancouver Island That idea is important to me. I asked some family and friends for help,… Read More »
Did you know Ming is disabled by ocd? He mentions narcolepsy often, as his disability. But ocd complexifies the narcolepsy all day long. (This post is about caregivers for disabled people.) Imagine needing to keep track of everything you do, including pills you take, but you fall asleep a hundred times a day. Imagine needing… Read More »
Hey, did you know I have special needs? Did you know if a girl doesn’t kick people or knock over her desk, she’ll be mostly ignored, no matter how strange she is? I didn’t want to play Sorry or Barbies, or watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang again–I wanted to look at anchovies. what I wanted… Read More »