Sarah JH Fletcher
@sjhfletcher.bsky.social
I'm interested in things. Editorial consultant; Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP. She/her.
One of the many things the pearl-clutchers don’t understand is that saying these things out loud forces vultures like Wolff — who was definitely sitting on this until his next book — to start vomiting up what they know.
Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 2d agoJon Ossoff is a national hero.
This is to say nothing of the fact that ADHD is a dynamic disability. Some days I am ON. TOP. OF. IT. Other days I barely have enough executive function to feed myself. Anyway, if this mythical superfluous support ever materializes, I really need a personal administrative assistant.
Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi@rjelevi.bsky.social · 2d agoIt is SO not a good idea to jump into the "mild" ADHD discourse and yet here I am. Anyway, I: Am adult diagnosed Can drive safely (so far) unmedicated Likely couldn't do current job off meds Likely couldn't hold down a 9-to-5, meds or not Would completely forget to pay my bills if not for Spouse
@clairewillett.bsky.social Claire have you read the new Tean + Jem book? I somehow missed its release in July, but as soon as I realised it was out I devoured it.
I love that Reacher is seemingly a show about the worlds most jacked medium woke autistic guy stumbling upon Regional Watergates
The Wikipedia page for ‘Amazing Grace’ is an unexpectedly wild ride
Amazing Grace - Wikipedia
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affirmations: - tomorrow I will be normal - I am doing a good job - nobody whose opinion I respect is mad at me - I am not “muppet-coded”
When we do fail, we are generally told that our failure is evidence that we didn’t care or didn’t try because *look!* we know what you can do when you actually make an efforts. So we are pushing ourselves incredibly hard not to fail, desperate not to disappoint people around us, …
Also, from my experience as a late-diagnosed woman: we generally have catastrophically poor self image and self-confidence, because whatever we achieve one day we can never be confident of achieving the next, which makes it very hard to take credit for our achievements and abilities. …
And, even if you don’t care about other people’s suffering, the *costs* to society of not supporting those people: unfulfilled potential (personal & earnings / productivity), broken relationships, personal finances & debts, addiction, secondary mental health consequences, accidents, deaths.
We’re right back to only diagnosing and supporting those kids / adults whose challenges are problems for *other people*. Those who are suffering silently, internalising their struggles, masking like hell and people-pleasing their way through life in order to survive? Fuck those people.
Oh Christ not this again. Capacity for masking != severity of impact.
As the government passes cuts to the life-changing and life-saving disability services that your friends and family rely on, please know that the same government is also giving a half billion dollar fossil fuel subsidy to an already vastly profitable mining company that did nothing to deserve it.
Tim Baxter@timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 4d agoLuckily, this year we will give half a billion dollars to a company that has booked $10b in profit. I can't think of anything else that we could have done with that money.
As this thread eloquently highlights, what these people really want is to take us back to a time when all of neurodivergence could be 'hidden' or punished under the guise of just being 'thick' or something equally regressive. They only ever want to take society backwards bsky.app/profile/apts...
Adrian Tchaikovsky@aptshadow.bsky.social · 3d agoGoing to weigh in here with some personal stuff. My son is diagnosed autistic. It made a world of difference because his school had to make accommodations that allowed him to actually cope and learn there, rather than be categorised as "naughty" in an escalating round of attempted control that
the guardian describes decades of peer reviewed medical science, study, and research as an ‘orthodoxy’. they did the exact same thing with gender affirming care. this is the same playbook. get a right wing quack to cast doubt and then have a bunch of columnists present it as reasonable.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d agoThe Great ADHD Myth? review – the most controversial show of the year is here
I have ADHD. I'm also a physicist. I got the ADHD diagnosis about a year and a half ago, after really struggling with work for a few years. I didn't know about it when I was in school, or when I started a physics undergrad as a mature student, or through my PhD. I have thoughts:
Reddit’s stupid fucking popups not letting me see anything unless I log in are merely conditioning me to spend way less time on Reddit. Genius move. (I will NOT log in 😤)
Wait, the famously Large Man is meant to be a former MotoGP prodigy? MotoGP?? The sport of tiny whippet-like men???
Alan Ritchson And 'Fast & Furious' Scribe Team On MotoGP Heist Movie
Alan Ritchson will star and produce an untitled heist thriller set in the world of MotoGP as he sets a first-look deal at Netflix.
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Okay, drawing some guidelines helps a lot with warping. I need a smaller gauge needle because this one is making problematically large holes in the fabric as I anchor the end of each row of weft. Somewhat undermines the purpose of mending.
Sarah JH Fletcher@sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 6d agoI’m learning to use a Speedweve-style mending loom but as always my Achilles heel is weak spatial ability. I cannot make my warp line up properly with the hooks! Aaargh. Nobody in the tutorials I’ve watched seems to struggle with this. Do I need to draw guidelines down from the hooks?
in an editorial position, it is incredibly important to refuse the grandiose assumption that there is anything special about your ability to read. thinking your job is now to sniff out AI instead of having strong publishing standards is unhealthy for you in the long term. you are human, not a hound.
a patient reminder: you can't tell just by looking at it whether any text is AI. it's hubris to think that you can. you are not immune from letting liars pass through your gates, or from letting honest work wait outside them. it's far more accurate to say your line-level taste is stricter due to AI.
some of my buddies are hilarious, like the fourth panel of a web comic. but i'm more intriguing, like the third panel of a web comic
I had to send a rather apologetic list of pronunciations to the audiobook production team, but me & my census data of French names from the 15th century ne regrettent rien!!
✨hauntedtoasters✨@hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm reading the Bodies of Magic ARC and 1. It is very good 2. @freyamarske.bsky.social decided to absolutely maximise the number of names that are really tricky to pronounce if you don't know French and honestly I kind of respect it.
For anyone struggling with questions of how and whether to make, promote, or talk about art in times like these, I highly recommend a short essay by John Crowley called "Practicing the Arts of Peace."
C. L. Polk@clpolk.com · 2y agoWhoever had that take, I don't need your name, it's ok but perhaps we should keep standing on the business of making art no matter what, which is a political act? or perhaps we should defiantly believe in the duty to hold open the way to escape, because rest and respite is key to gathering strength?
apostrophen.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/t... I’m genuinely never not thinking about this, and all the little ways a queer reader can spot when a book isn’t written by us or for us, as well as the frustration when cishet readers object to being “taken out of the fantasy” by reminders of queer reality
The Shoulder Check Problem
Like a lot of my blog posts here, this one was sparked at a specific time over a specific conversation, but over the years I’ve seen this particular topic come up again and again like waves on a sh…
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there is a terrific essay on m/m romance called “The Shoulder Check Problem” by @nathanburgoine.bsky.social which examines tropes which pull queer readers out of books that weren’t written by or for us, of which a big one is “Happy Ending Requires Queer Protagonist To Reconcile With Bigoted Family”
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d agolol come the fuck on
