@wakehamAMR Well, with AuDHD I can sometimes (=roll a d3) function in times of crisis but then my autism needs some reeaaaal time alone to recharge; or I can work with patterns when I trick my hyperfocus to do it, but my exhaustion afterwards just lets me flop on the bed; or I don't manage anything at all (critical miss) and am a miserable pos laying depressed on the floor shrug
I was volunteering in some research projects on semi-captive elephants. One study was investigating stress levels and self directed behaviours. The other was study involving hormone treatment.
We collected poo from the elephants to analyse and obviously we needed to know whose poo was whose!
Cold storage was limited. We often kept it in the freezer next to our own food 💩🌮
Recently saw a post on LinkedIn with the quote “Abelism looks like calling people 'inspiring' for navigating a system that is designed for exclusion, while doing nothing to hold the system accountable.”
As Stella Young said “We are not here for your inspiration”.
Inspiration porn is so debilitating to those living with disabilities.
As it happens we are, in my MEd, about to undertake a week focusing on resilience. Much of this particular unit has been very triggering for me. Admittedly, this is in part the impetus for me to this masters to prevent my experience to happen again.
In this aspect resilience is nothing more than the booby prize people with disabilities occasionally receive by simply surviving.
If we lived in a less ableist, capitalist, and hierarchal society, spending less time finding ways to exclude and disenfranchise people and more time finding universal inclusive practices to allow and enhance the potential of everyone, then there wouldn’t be so much for people like me to overcome.