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nilchance- On Writing Anxiety, an essay that is centered around academic writing but that I still find valuable as a fiction writer. "As a rule, I tend to avoid the writing advice columns on the Chronicle and Inside Higher Ed like the plague. They tend to compound my anxiety by confirming what I already suspect: I’m not productive enough, I’m not disciplined enough, my writing process is pathological."
- No, clean SOME of the things, which takes that Hyperbole and a Half post as a launching point to discuss how to live with limited spoons, be it from depression or chronic illness. "Because it turns out that actual functional adulthood isn't cleaning all the things! Or emptying out all the emails! Or always going to the bank! Or any of that! No, the first meaningful skill of adulthood? Triage. Or, in less dramatic words, prioritization."
- -isms for the casual user, a post by a librarian on her coworker's attitudes re: disability. I ran into a lot of this in my old job, in disability support services, which just goes to demonstrate some larger idea I can't verb right now. "This is what I work with every day: you're not disabled unless they can see signs of it, but if they can see signs of it, then you're a big stupid problem that needs to be swept away and erased."
- On Cure Evangelism, a post from FWD about pushy temporarily able-bodied people who try to preach the RIGHT cure. "Put simply, cure evangelism involves aggressively pushing a medical treatment or approach to a medical condition or disability on someone, without that person’s consent, interest, or desire."
- No, clean SOME of the things, which takes that Hyperbole and a Half post as a launching point to discuss how to live with limited spoons, be it from depression or chronic illness. "Because it turns out that actual functional adulthood isn't cleaning all the things! Or emptying out all the emails! Or always going to the bank! Or any of that! No, the first meaningful skill of adulthood? Triage. Or, in less dramatic words, prioritization."
- -isms for the casual user, a post by a librarian on her coworker's attitudes re: disability. I ran into a lot of this in my old job, in disability support services, which just goes to demonstrate some larger idea I can't verb right now. "This is what I work with every day: you're not disabled unless they can see signs of it, but if they can see signs of it, then you're a big stupid problem that needs to be swept away and erased."
- On Cure Evangelism, a post from FWD about pushy temporarily able-bodied people who try to preach the RIGHT cure. "Put simply, cure evangelism involves aggressively pushing a medical treatment or approach to a medical condition or disability on someone, without that person’s consent, interest, or desire."
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Date: 2010-09-13 08:34 pm (UTC)The one thing the article doesn't mention which I also believe, is that, at least in my experience, sometimes folks do the "cure evangelism" thing b/c they can't emotionally handle the truth of my illness. Like somehow *my* condition is such a burden on them that if they hand me the Magic Cure ("no really! blue green algae and your fibro/chronic fatigue/food allergies/seizures will be magically all gone! if it doesn't work it's prolly b/c you're a lazy grumpybutt who isn't trying hard enough..."), their stress I mean my illness will go away. I think sometimes cure evangelism is an attempt to silence folks with illnesses/disabilities. B/c it's just too emotionally challenging for some non-disabled folks to have to face the reality of a disabled person. Like my illness highlights the intransience of health, or reminds folks that health is a privilege, or that we're all mortal. or something.
Anyway, sorry to tirade and thank you for the links.
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Date: 2010-09-13 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-14 11:04 am (UTC)"Why not just have the surgery to fix your neck?". None of your goddamn business. "Have you tried Lyrica? No. "Why not? I've seen all the commercials..." It's kissing cousin and I didn't get along.
The sad thing is that a good 80%+ is from family or family friends, who you can't just tell to bugger off.
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Date: 2010-10-01 06:22 am (UTC)she seems to have experienced objections based on some wierd idea that mentioning which group is being discriminated against on grounds of visible ethnicity was somehow not PC-
"I pointed out the ethnicity ..because they were falsely described as having rotten English. Is it problematic, do you think?" and then removed that information
Linguists have repeatedly documented the truism that higher status groups generally perceive the speech variations characteristic of lower status groups and individuals as unintelligible, although the reverse is not true, and individuals outside the hierarchy do not percieve a significant difference in comprehensibility in either accent. In other words, it's a "subtle" manifestation of discrimination and prejudice rather than a valid complaint, so the ethnicity is certainly relevant.
I must say, I'm not sure why it's wrong to clarify the point that these folks were percieved as unintelligible simply because they weren't Caucasian. That's a problem, and shouldn't ever be obscured by sensibilities- if ethnicity becomes an issue simply because it's visible, that's prejudice, and any fake PC sensibilities ought to submit to sense of fairness.