Jane’s thoughts and musings about random topics and highlights in society
The thing about “unpaid labour” like taking care of a sick family member, managing the home or full time child care is that the person doing it is also typically unable to simultaneously hold down another full time job – or are doing the equivalent of 2 jobs (care work and their regular job)
I don’t think this consideration factors into the conversation often enough when their contributions are weighed
There’s this rhetoric about people being good spouses and bad parents and vice-versa that bothers me on a visceral level, and I think I have words to describe it now
Does the date still remind you of the bullets that rent the silence in perfect darkness to cut down those who braved the times and odds to demand for a better country, and paid with their lives at the hands of those sworn to protect them
For neurodivergent children: Sometimes we’ll be very early. Sometimes we’ll be quite late. Let us function on our own timeline
Appropriation is when they take the complaint and trivialize it by using it in every day (or work) conversation
You are not a bad person for being bold, assertive or owning your growth, person and experience
When I first came face to face with the possibility of being autistic, I was desperate to believe it could be fixed – training therapy, coaching. This is a poor summary of how being autistic impacts me
R is a programming language that is primarily used for statistical analysis, visualization, and other data analysis
An R package is a unit of reproducible code – allowing you to leverage other people’s work, and repeat actions faster
An R package is a unit of reproducible code – allowing you to leverage other people’s work, and repeat actions faster
To make impulse buying work for you, you need to step beyond the habit to fixate on the order within the chaos. Here’s how:
Observation is a fancy term for “row” in databases. It refers to the attributes of data contained in a referenced cell
A letter to narcissists: humans want to be regarded as people, inherently valuable, regardless of what they can/cannot do, what they have/don’t have, and if they last/don’t last
And no matter how much you pretend, the heart knows the truth, and people sense that first
It’s sometimes hard to find the right words to describe it: it’s ADHD, it’s autism, yet something else entirely as well. They impact each other in ways that skew presentations away from what is typical or expected
For neurodivergent people, managing time and energy leans heavily on managing motivation as well. Productivity also means surmounting obstacles
