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Annoys me when writing about the infantilization of disabled adults that we don't have a decent English word for "adult child". So I'm stuck with calling infantilized adults children. Unless someone can suggest a decent workaround?

I've wondered which of my views will mark me out as an "old person" when I'm elderly and I'm starting to worry that it will be the value I place on reading, writing and synthesising information.

With this year's Australian Census, if you change your mind about a check box, you have to first uncheck it before checking another option.

“Dr Ferracioli recommends couples try not to take differing views personally.” This whole article reeks of “if women divorce their right wing asshole husbands en masse then the husbands will become full on incels so let’s gaslight them into moderating the men.”

Shifting political views don't need to spell the end of a relationshipBut experts say if morals are involved, it might be a relationship "deal breaker".www.abc.net.au

Boy do trans people get asked invasive personal questions by doctors when seeking gender affirming care. *as parent, I left the room before answer In contrast, people in mainstream can give birth etc. and medical professionals are super adept at communicating around the weird specifics.

Yesterday an Internet expert told me my son and I are narcissistic fakers who do not have disabling levels of Autism. Therefore we are indirectly responsible for the WA parents who murdered their genuinely Autistic sons. We took the resources due to them. Yep. That’s the shit people think, and say.

Someone pursuing a PhD in neuroscience just delivered a lecture to me on a Medium post I wrote about being the parent of an Autistic child, and constantly questioned about whether your child's Autism is real. Gotta say, "Autism experts" in PhD world are really grinding my fucking gears lately.

In the near future the AusAlert will be used to notify you that Kingsley's Chicken have changed the chip oil so form an orderly queue

Publisher and photographer know exactly what they’re doing here, with this pose—the symbolic inverse of what I’m seeing from this Autism Mom, as shown on Love on the Spectrum and paratexts. (Memoir comes out next year.)

I am a direct descendent of the first person to ride a penny farthing bicycle between Christchurch and Ashburton. Yes, I must steal glory. I have no weird accomplishments of my own. (Others may disagree.)

"It's important that children attend school, not only for their education but for their social skills," the couple were told by magistrates. >>The “social skills” learned in school are made up by the allistic majority and most applicable to school. Kind of like learning the social rules of prison.

I made a decent version of these things today. The “secret” (not secret, it’s on the ingredients list) is date syrup.

If a librarian is unable to fix the cloud issue preventing me from reading a journal article, so locates it in print, takes photos of it and emails it to me instead (with strict instructions not to share, ofc) Do they want a thank you email? Or are thank you emails just annoying, these days?

My Alabama pen pal of many years just shared that Bill Bryson's book on Australia is what made her terrified of ever visiting Australia. Which is very funny, because reading that same book is that thing that made me want to move here. (I was working in London at time of first reading.)