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Hello! I am now blogging at https://www.emmelinetyler.net Please join me there and sign up for my newsletter at the bottom of the page. I will email you when I post new blog posts. Thanks! Emmeline
Hello! I am now blogging at https://www.emmelinetyler.net Please join me there and sign up for my newsletter at the bottom of the page. I will email you when I post new blog posts. Thanks! Emmeline
“I can’t breathe,” he said, with the boot of empire on his neck. And so the affront of blackness to white supremacy was once again apparently punishable by death In a country where the lives of some are at stake, and the souls of the powerful are under threat. And let’s be clear – those…
So you have good work to do in the world but you need to sometimes use computers to do it. You have a clear and distinct zone of genius, and it is NOT solving IT problems. And yet, you want to start a mailing list or maybe even build a website! There are so many…
I know these past few months have been tough on all of us, but is there any part of you that is worried about re-entry into the wider world outside your own home and local bike path? Early on, I arrogantly assumed I was ideally suited to iso life, because I am an introverted autistic…
I have previously blogged about what I read in 2019 here and here. Now I have reviewed the books I read in the second half of 2019. Fiction (7) A Man Called Ove, by Fredrick Backman (3/5) Content warning: suicide Plot: Having been widowed and subsequently made redundant, a man feels like life is not…
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,…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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, 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…