Tag: Actually

I didn't fathom the incredible amount of positive response I would receive from this story and am grateful for the opportunity to have connected and shared with so many who vulnerably resonated with my message and experience. There was one comment, however, that knocked me a bit off-kilter, n...

Professionalism not only encourages but necessarily requires that we follow the status quo. And that status quo is a reflection of our late-capitalist, patriarchal, and racist society. It was created for and by white men, and it loathes individuality. We must be placed in neat boxes labeled with our...

They were annoyed. And so was I, honestly. They were annoyed they had to put up with a “special snowflake”. I was annoyed they were making a big deal out of this. But I’m also quite confrontation avoidant, so instead I’ve turned my imagined response into an article. The...

I wasn’t diagnosed as autistic until age 41 in 2021. What I thought was autism was the stereotype you see in the media of the non-speaking rocking and hand-flapping white boy, or the incorrect stereotypes such as Rainman (actually a savant), and the stereotypes I didn’t relate to such as...

Thank goodness there are always people in a group who are willing to take on the temporary duty of a Social Committee. Lautaro Spotorno did it for us at the end of Week 1 and came up with a great program for the one long weekend we have here (Chulalongkorn Day). On Friday evening, i...

I’ve been using my iPhone 15 Pro Max now for a little over a week and I have barely a bad word to say about it. The odd thing is though, it feels as if it’s me alone that has had zero problems. Looking at Twitter (X) and forums many users seem to have been beset with issues. I was ...