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Monotropism and Autism: What IS Monotropism and how does it apply to Autistic People?
Monotropism (a key feature of Autism) is a person's tendency to focus their attention on a small number of interests at any time, tending to miss things outside of this attention tunnel.
Keep It Pushing.org – Quality Information for an Adaptable Community
Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave: How the Testing Industry Manufactured the "Learning Loss" Narrative | Human Restoration Project | Chris McNutt
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1021 likes, 49 comments. “Kind of crazy that we are gerting trained in diagnosing without even learning what Monotropism is…”
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lisa chapman on Twitter: "1/9 Listening to autistic teenagers talk about their special interests has been an epic & joyful adventure. My MSc research=getting those voices heard. Many 'thank yous', above all to the teenagers involved, their families, & my own YP for the inspiration https://t.co/0ad2AcPRhZ https://t.co/t47k4RiGRu" / X
1/9 Listening to autistic teenagers talk about their special interests has been an epic & joyful adventure. My MSc research=getting those voices heard. Many 'thank yous', above all to the teenagers involved, their families, & my own YP for the inspiration https://t.co/0ad2AcPRhZ pic.twitter.com/t47k4RiGRu— lisa chapman (@CommonSenseSLT) August 10, 2023
Autistic Teenager Special Interests Presentation - Presentation
What is Monotropism in Autism?. Autistics are criticized for having… | by The Autlaw | Aug, 2023 | Medium
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Injustice survives when "DEI-minded" people defend purely individualist solutions. I say, "#Antibias training alone can't eliminate institutional #racism";…
The black stork : eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915 : Pernick, Martin S : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK
This ground-breaking book provides the first detailed clinical analysis of the various manifestations of catatonia, shutdown and breakdown in autistic individuals, with a new assessment framework (ACE-S) and guidance on intervention and management strategies using a psycho-ecological approach. Based on Dr Amitta Shah's
Autistic SPACE: a novel framework for meeting the needs of autistic people in healthcare settings — Neurodiverse Connection
Doherty, McCowan and Shaw (2023) The authors have developed a simple framework which may facilitate equitable clinical services at all points of access and care, using the acronym ‘SPACE’. This encompasses five core autistic needs: Sensory needs, Predictability, Acceptance, Communication and Empath
Monotropism and The Monotropism Questionnaire — Neurodiverse Connection
The theory of monotropism was developed by Dr Dinah Murray, Dr Wenn Lawson and Mike Lesser (2005) in their article, Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism. Monotropic people focus more attention and energy resources on a more limited number of channels of interest than non-
The Future of Design Is Designing for Disability | The Nation
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On the Need for New Futures. Note from Adam: Sometime in the spring… | by Adam Flynn | Solarpunks | Medium
Note from Adam: Sometime in the spring of 2012, I was discussing young adult fiction, dystopias, and the mayan apocalypse with novelist…
SOLARPUNK: Life in the future
DIY, Cultural Fracking, The Chrome Of Yestermorrow, Cyberpunk, Solarpunk, Visions of the Future and the Anthropogreen at Unsound 2019
Solarpunk Is Not About Pretty Aesthetics. It's About the End of Capitalism
At its core, and despite its appropriation, Solarpunk imagines a radically different societal and economic structure.
On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk | by Andrew Dana Hudson | Solarpunks | Medium
Can the new Tumblr-grown aesthetic break through the smog to change the Twenty-First Century conversation?
Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto – Project Hieroglyph
Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction – Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative
SOLARPUNKS — On the Need for New Futures
One of the most curious facts about living as we do today is that our future does not, strictly speaking, exist. This fact has been well elaborated by Bruce Sterling over the past few years (“Atemporality for the Creative Artist” being especially good), and picked up on ably by Justin Pickard in the recent Gonzo Futurist manifesto. Our philosophy of history has more or less collapsed, we are confronted with dizzying arrays of signals strong and weak, fair and foul.
SOLARPUNKS — The initial equation
Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, holding each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.
This is why – as Cat Valente wrote in her magesterial pre-Christmas essay – platforms like Prodigy transformed themselves overnight, from a place where you went for social connection to a place where you were expected to "stop talking to each other and start buying things":
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
This shell-game with surpluses is what happened to Facebook. First, Facebook was good to you: it showed you the things the people you loved and cared about had to say. This created a kind of mutual hostage-taking: once a critical mass of people you cared about were on Facebook, it became effectively impossible to leave, because you'd have to convince all of them to leave too, and agree on where to go. You may love your friends, but half the time you can't agree on what movie to see and where to go for dinner. Forget it.
Then, it started to cram your feed full of posts from accounts you didn't follow. At first, it was media companies, who Facebook preferentially crammed down its users' throats so that they would click on articles and send traffic to newspapers, magazines and blogs.
Then, once those publications were dependent on Facebook for their traffic, it dialed down their traffic. First, it choked off traffic to publications that used Facebook to run excerpts with links to their own sites, as a way of driving publications into supplying fulltext feeds inside Facebook's walled garden.
Even with that foundational understanding of enshittification, Google has been unable to resist its siren song. Today's Google results are an increasingly useless morass of self-preferencing links to its own products, ads for products that aren't good enough to float to the top of the list on its own, and parasitic SEO junk piggybacking on the former.
Enshittification kills. Google just laid off 12,000 employees, and the company is in a full-blown "panic" over the rise of "AI" chatbots, and is making a full-court press for an AI-driven search tool – that is, a tool that won't show you what you ask for, but rather, what it thinks you should see:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/20/23563851/google-search-ai-chatbot-demo-chatgpt
Enshittification truly is how platforms die. That's fine, actually. We don't need eternal rulers of the internet. It's okay for new ideas and new ways of working to emerge. The emphasis of lawmakers and policymakers shouldn't be preserving the crepuscular senescence of dying platforms. Rather, our policy focus should be on minimizing the cost to users when these firms reach their expiry date: enshrining rights like end-to-end would mean that no matter how autocannibalistic a zombie platform became, willing speakers and willing listeners would still connect with each other:
https://doctorow.medium.com/end-to-end-d6046dca366f
The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry
Alexithymia and Autistic Burnout: Too tired to feel it - Emergent Divergence
Autistic burnout is perpetually a hot topic (pun intended) within the Autistic community. From the earliest stages of our discovery journey through to the people who are seasoned veterans of the neurodiversity movement; burnout is an issue prevalent for any Autistic person currently in existence. Unfortunately, we often use observational techniques to try and quantify
We're now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office–and it's worse than we thought | Fortune
Three compelling reports show just how damaging RTO mandates are turning out to be.
Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment. In other words, employers knew the mandates would cause some attrition, but they weren’t ready for the serious problems that would result.
Meanwhile, a staggering 76% of employees stand ready to jump ship if their companies decide to pull the plug on flexible work schedules, according to the Greenhouse report. Moreover, employees from historically underrepresented groups are 22% more likely to consider other options if flexibility comes to an end.
In the SHED survey, the gravity of this situation becomes more evident. The survey equates the displeasure of shifting from a flexible work model to a traditional one to that of experiencing a 2% to 3% pay cut.
Flexible work policies have emerged as the ultimate edge in talent acquisition and retention. The Greenhouse, SHED, and Unispace reports, when viewed together, provide compelling evidence to back this assertion.
Greenhouse finds that 42% of candidates would outright reject roles that lack flexibility. In turn, the SHED survey affirms that employees who work from home a few days a week greatly treasure the arrangement.
In other words, excluding career-centric factors such as pay, security, and promotion, flexible work ranks first in employees’ priorities.
In line with the Greenhouse report’s findings, most employees would actively seek a new job if flexible work policies were retracted. The underrepresented groups were even more prone to leave, making the situation more daunting.
Upon running an internal survey, managers realized that aside from better compensation and career advancement opportunities, employees were seeking better flexible work policies. This aligned with the Greenhouse and SHED findings, which ranked flexible work policies as a crucial factor influencing job changes.
The company worked with me to introduce flexible work policies, and the result was almost immediate: Managers noticed a sharp decrease in employee turnover and an uptick in job applications. Their story echoes the collective message from all three reports: Companies must adapt to flexible work policies or risk being outcompeted by other employers.
Pluralistic: Tesla’s Dieselgate (28 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Beyond Single-Mindedness – A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences