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How 45 minutes a day of dreaming and creativity could save humanity from ultimate destruction
The main feature of neurodiverse brains such as autism spectrum “disorder”, Asperger’s Syndrome, and ADHD is that the frontal lobe is different to neurotypical brains. The frontal lobe controls executive function. Executive function is the ability to get stuff done in the right order. Executive function helps you get places on time, clean the house,…
Love (and humility) in the time of coronavirus
I have been feeling a bit foolish about the arrogance of Past Emm. And by Past Emm, I mean Emm from a couple of weeks ago. I know I need to have compassion for my past self rather than contempt – but I am in a very different place now than I was even a…
Green consumerism is not going to save us
“Every dollar you spend is a vote for the kind of world you want to have” Have you heard this quote before? I have – a lot – and I have been very influenced by it. I obsess over every purchase, only buying something if I absolutely need it, trying to buy the more ethical…
The cross and the beginner’s mindset
There is a concept in yoga called The Beginner’s mindset. The idea is that you don’t “advance” or “progress” in yoga; you always return to the beginning, with the fresh and open mindset of a beginner. It’s not like, okay I’ve mastered downward dog, now I’m going to learn how to do a head-stand. You…
When mainstream values put us all at risk
If you have ADHD or autism, you will be familiar with the term executive function. If you are not familiar, here is a definition: “the executive functions are a set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one’s resources in order to achieve a goal. It is an umbrella term for…
Coronavirus world from the perspective of an introverted autistic woman
Note: This blog post is about the world in the context of coronavirus outbreak. It is not specifically about coronavirus. I want to acknowledge the sense of fear and loss of the coronavirus outbreak health crisis here at the start, because it is not what I am writing about below. Destabilised At the moment, pretty…
Book Review: Quit Like a Woman
One of my favourite genres is a kind of non-fiction which combines research on a topic with memoir-style personal reflections of the author’s experience with said topic. (This is often the domain of female writers.) Quit Like A Woman is one such book. Holly Whitaker has taken her own experience of quitting alcohol (and marijuana,…
Three Things ScoMo could do right now to show he cared about his constituents
Over the summer there was a lot of anger towards our Prime Minister. In the middle of a bushfire crisis, he refused to acknowledge that we were seeing the effects of climate change, and then jetted off for a holiday – and lied about the fact that he was on holidays. I wrote the below…
The Risk of Changing Nothing
Humans are predisposed to avoid risk. It’s how we are all still here. If we didn’t fear anything, our species would not survive. We have an interesting bias, though, to avoid the risk of change. Change is unknown, uncertain. So often we take on an attitude of ‘better the devil you know’. I come across…
Dear Finley: 2020 was the year we turned things around
Dear Finley, I have been thinking a lot about what to say to you when you are old enough to ask about the climate crisis. I imagine that, shortly after asking about the climate crisis, you will ask the inevitable question: why did the grown-ups let this happen to the earth? I imagine you will…
