it seems that a lot of times people telling someone to “get therapy” envision the ideal outcome of this to be essentially like lobotomizing the person in question
i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on “outward” signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don’t know how to explain it but “do you make eye contact with other people” feels like a much less relevant question than “how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?”
while i’m here, the other one that always pisses me off is “do you interpret idioms literally, for example ‘bull in a china shop’?”
well, no, obviously. i know what “bull in a china shop” means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn’t heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question
third and final complaint: “are you good at noticing subtext?”
i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, “i feel very safe with you because you don’t do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling.”
and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i’m gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3
@luckyybones hope you don’t mind me screenshotting but you are actually so correct
my senior english teacher told me that any scene with a woman in a cornfield in every piece of literature ever is about her journey to womanhood/pleasuring herself in the field and i just…. believed her
when you ask a knowledge keeper something and they say “good question”
No it’s actually just that this post was specifically about me learning from older Native people whose role in the community is often referred to as a knowledge keeper in English, for their extensive cultural wisdom and knowledge. I’m okay with other people relating to the concept as well but please refrain from making fun of how we cherish those who are a core part in resisting genocide.
