Tania Melnyczuk
Being believed when you’re autistic and sick
If you have a meltdown, your chances of getting help with any of these diseases drops dramatically. Because people who are really sick don’t have meltdowns, they behave like normal healthy people.
“I feel empathy physically”
Today I'm sharing the words of an autistic friend, Dr. Elena Chandler. "I feel empathy physically as a crushing or piercing sensation in my chest, and generally I am not able to damp down the intensity of it, so it can quickly lead to a meltdown or shutdown, depending...
Random acts of kindness
Random acts of kindness
Random acts of kindness are no replacement for consistent acts of justice.
I don’t want to diss or discourage random acts of kindness. A random act of kindness can save or radically change someone’s life, and if it is all you ever do with your spare time, then you’re doing a darn side more than most people.Â
But random acts of kindness alone can’t change the systems that produce the dire circumstances that inspire most random acts of kindness. That’s because they’re random rather than focused.
Focused, consistent action doesn’t provide the dopamine rush of random acts of kindness. But focused, consistent action changes systems.Â
Consistent acts of justice change the world.