Even A Softer World knows that people shouldn’t be prescriptivists!
well the author is a linguist
Ooh, I didn’t realize that, awesome! I should really add “write webcomics” to the linguistics jobs series, since it’s a thing that people with linguistics backgrounds often seem to go on to do. (I’ve seen legit linguistics in Dinosaur comics, SMBC, and xkcd, to name a few.)
as a child, i had this really interesting way of dealing with executive dysfunction:
when i needed to do something but did not get the impulse to actually start, i counted to 20.
and at 20, i did the thing.
i started this in order to get me out of bed in the morning, and after a few weeks it was a reliable source of starting impulses. every time i hit 20, i got started.
somewhere along the way i stopped doing it, because it was weird and nobody else needed to count in order to do stuff.
it makes me wonder, how many brilliant coping skills do we loose or never develop because we live in a neurotypical world and nobody teaches us these things? because we think they’re weird, because we don’t have words for what we’re doing, because they seem to have no place in this world?
Knitting Inspiration – Blankets. Actual blankets. Fuck it, I give in. It’s dark and cold in that bone-soaking way that seems to only be dispelled by a scalding hot bath followed immediately by tea and blankets. You know what’s nice about blankets? You can be under them while knitting them, even in the midst of family holiday stress. Cover yourself with enough blanket and they’ll never find you! Where’d the pie and booze go? Who knows! Certainly not that pile of blankets on the couch.
Sources are, as always, in the captions and below.
Kimchi and Justice 