200th Post, What I’ve Learnt About: Writer’s Voice, Accessibility, Pretentious Bastards, and Taboo Topics

I began this blog later 2020 after struggling to speak or express myself through video. I was frustrated. My longtime agoraphobia was heightened by the pandemic but I had to time to be inspired, I had freedom to live and work within my own schedule, and I was busy with various projects. Unfortunately, I wasn't …

Symbols of Presentation

Our behaviour, dress, habits, these are born of reactions in our inner world. Our self perception and realm of authenticity is influenced and expressed by a set of external symbols— representations of more complex subjects. Eye contact is symbolic, wearing jewelry is symbolic, our accent, inflections, our routine, our addictions, these outwardly simple expressions reference …

An Alchemist’s Shame

Pride is nearly a stranger to me and I know shame intimately. Science, art, and philosophy provide me structure for courage. Through courage, I might get to know pride. Shame still clings and attempts to interfere with my healing and growing and knowing of what I’m capable of. Shame carries embarrassment, self hatred, and hates …

Being Recognized as You Are

As autistic and neurodivergent people, the ways we interact with the world are informed by how we’re perceived and how people react to us. This can be said of all human beings but being born into pre-established expectations we’ll never meet, social, emotional, educational, etc, involves a convoluted sense of self being projected onto us. …

“What Are You?” The Gender Question

I’ve been asked if I’m male or female many times: at high school, university, at work, at the grocery store, at the library— worse still was when I lived downtown in an apartment above a popular bar and was bombarded by intoxicated passers-byes. Some people are crude and ruder than others, but the interaction is …

Caring About Others

No one is good, wise, or otherwise aware, if they are not good to others. A person won’t heal if they don’t care about the healing of others. Empathy is a skill that can be practiced and learning to be wrong, and learning to learn, is the only way forward in our development as people. …

Working Toward the Best

The best is what helps and heals all. Words and actions aligned still will not save the world without awareness of what the world needs.  Practicing empathy skills, understanding that your experience is not every experience, and developing self awareness— we need to put the work into our own lives to inspire these changes in …

Philosophy Beyond Doctrine

Why do thinkers think? Why do we learn? Is a PhD in philosophy just a tool to continue the conveyor belt of manufactured thinkers who will then go on to fulfill their roll? Is it all just debate with no outcome? There is an ultimate purpose to philosophy and that’s to inspire action. I’ve been …

Personal Responsibility

Our free will isn’t ultimate nor is it unaffected by outside influences, but the one and only thing we truly own is ourselves. Our body, our mind, our soul, our Self, this is ours. We are owed our rights to basic resources, food, shelter, etcetera, and we’re owed freedom to live our lives as we …

Existence

People will feign compassion by criticizing your existence with misinformation, believing they’re helping you or doing the right thing. There is no one truth to base our opinions on, and others who don’t share your personal experiences will form their opinions with their perception of it, marred by bias and naivety. Your existence is your …