Category: Memories
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Actually Autistic Moment of the Day: “of”

One of my earliest memory-fragments, puzzling over the spelling of ‘of’ versus the sound of ‘of’. It makes a lot more sense on this side of realizing I’m actually autistic.
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What I’d tell my younger ‘autistic’ self now

Things I’d tell my younger ActuallyAutistic self: basically, they’re right, and the empowerment of acceptance.
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Teaching is a Laborious Magic

I really love teaching college students. It’s an awful effort, as in its both an intense slog and the results are awe-provoking, and in retrospect the process looks almost like a kind of interpersonal magic.
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Monsoons in Tucson and Fall in Michigan

Watching a record monsoon season from over 1,600 miles away while here in Michigan it’s already fall. (Plus, are the storms in Michigan changing into something like a monsoon, or is that just me?)
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Dancing with Britney Alone

If I were ever to tell a story at a Moth Story Night, this is the story I’d tell right now.
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This nervy tree just tried to brain me!

A Black Walnut tree tries to bludgeon me *to death*(!), though I thwarted the dastardly deed at the last moment. Gripping suspense! Also, Horace’s run-in with a tree.
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What are the Names of the Sierra Nevada?

Reflections on what to call the ancient beings currently known as the Sierra Nevada.
