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  10/06/23 If you don't ask this question at some point in your life, the world will out of cruel necessity have had its answer at the ready since before you were born. Which is the crueler critic, the face looking back at you in the mirror every morning or the entire motley crowd of humanity waiting for you as it waits for all strangers? 10/7/23  "Eco-Grief" https://youtu.be/Em0Bk-GASSE Ecological grief Description Ecological grief, or in particular climate grief, refers to the sense of loss that arises from experiencing or learning about environmental destruction or climate change. Environmental grief can be defined as "the grief reaction stemming from the environmental loss of ecosystems by natural and man-made events." Wikipedia Ecological grief refers to the sense of loss that arises from experiencing or learning about environmental destruction or climate change. Eco-grief is the grief reaction stemming from the loss of eco-systems by natural and man-made e...

11/12/23 Quora asked: Everyone knows most autistic people struggle with reading neurotypicals. So why do neurotypicals assume they can read autistic people?   I'm autistic and have a lot of autistic friends and I've noticed a pattern of neurotypicals reading all of us wrong (thinking we're intentionally being rude, when we're just answering their questions, thinking we're anxious when we're bored, thinking we're “acting” when we're happy, thinking we're flirting when we're uncomfortable etc.)? My reply: That’s right, because the lack of intellectual and emotional empathy can go both ways. Neurotypicals “assume” they can read autistic people because they immediately try to read them using the system of social cues and nonverbal communication developed for and by the Neurotypical society. It would be like travelling to Japan as a Gaijin and thinking the Japanese rude when they avoid making eye contact with you. How does a non-Japanese attempt to “r...