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Unlearning Shame is out today in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats wherever you get your books!!
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Devon Price
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Devon Price
@drdevonprice
🇵🇸🏴📚Author of the books Unmasking Autism, Laziness Does Not Exist, and Unlearning Shame.
- its fast fashion to You. im wearing a forever21 sweater i got during the bush administration
- Was looking for a way to illegally stream the Tony Awards and I learned that Stanford University runs a site that lets you watch any network TV channel for free??
- Is it Zoom Fatigue, or is it emotionally and existentially crushing to have to pretend to be chipper and attentive during your work's all-hand strategic planning meeting while hundreds of thousands of people are dying and the sky burns
- You know, if I was gonna talk about feeling pressured as a young person into taking hormones with poorly studied and at-times irreversible effects, I would be talking about hormonal birth control, not hrt.
- rejection sensitive dysphoria is probably the neurodivergence 'symptom' i find the most absurd. like oh, a person who has been cast aside by society repeatedly for failing unspoken social tricks fears abandonment and suspects there's hidden risks in every social encounter? weird
- I saw a piece making the rounds about "How to Ask Your Professor for an Extension Without Trauma Dumping" and let me just say... fuck managing your teacher's emotions. trauma dump all you need if it gets you that extension baby
- I have no doubt that *many* students have faked an illness or a family death in order to get an extension from me over the years. I don't care at all. I am certain there were actual challenges happening in their lives that they didn't feel safe telling me about.
- a lot of what Americans consider to be the inevitable losses of aging are really just an engineered lack of disability accommodations. There are a lot of opportunities for connection, adventure, and mobility we deny our elders needlessly and we're conditioned to just accept it.
- Wish people would also quote the next few paragraphs of the book after this, where I cite research showing that unmasking/disclosing you're Autistic makes this effect drop away!learning this changed my life (and broke my heart)
- any time you critique an oppressive system, people come to you demanding a perfectly articulated step-by-step plan for creating a flawless alternative system, today. as if the system we are currently locked inside of were meticulously designed from the top down. it wasn't.
- A thing I hear from many gender-questioning people is the idea they don't "need" to transition, it's not a life-or-death-matter for them, and so they shouldn't do it. One problem with that logic is just how much human beings can get accustomed to quiet low-grade lifelong misery.
- You are not obligated to issue grand proclamations about incredibly complex issues you know relatively little about. You also are not obligated to flood your nervous system with upsetting imagery and information for hours -- that is not the same thing as informing yourself.
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