OTtheory&practice

Working with kids with so called “school refusal” going on, when they are metaphorically being asked to enter a room with a tiger in it and feel comfortable and pay attention. Who’d want to spend time in a room with a tiger? Who’d want to incrementally increase exposure to it? OT: remove the tiger.

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

I love this ad / public info film from Norway on Enshittification.

youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

Also beautiful late 80s layout, typefaces, design on those pages you photoed.

Interdependence is the human condition.

Occupational therapy work. The message from services is “giz a loan of your car”.

Whe I was at school we were taught about “perks” of jobs - one of which could be being provided with a company car. Now an essential requirement on job ads is having a car and full clean drivers licence.

Many self-identifying autistic ppl lack formal diagnosis despite wanting it, & have higher unmet needs, unemployment & distress than many diagnosed ppl (as we found). UK is proposing to narrow diagnosis despite subtyping failures.👇 Rationing healthcare backfires!
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Don't fall for the fabricated label "profound autism." Instead, get your information about autism and disability from those communities—where people will think you or your kid are awesome, and will want you to feel the same way.

#autism #ProfoundAutism #neurodiversity #autistic #parenting

New podcast. 90 minutes of autistic pattern recognition about something terrible open.spotify.com/episode/0F0F...

YouTube video by The Sensory Projects older autisticd

Very good from @jo3grace.bsky.social as usual.

youtube.com/shorts/5tu4d...

Wikipedia as a platform for engagement | Blogs | Royal College of Nursing Wikipedia as a platform for engagement: widening public knowledge of Scottish nurses

The magic of being a Wikipedian!
Hope this blog will inspire more #OccupationalTherapists and their professional bodies to get involved for maximum, international impact.

www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

I know it goes without saying but schools too. A school I did a consultation with recently told me they can’t support an ADHD kid because they “don’t have the staff”.

More understanding and talk about embodiment is needed if we are going to clarify the risks and benefits of AI. There is no reason in the world that AI should kill OT if we do our jobs properly. But the main threat posed by AI might come from who owns it and how they utilise it to do their bidding.

Sharron Davies ranting against 15 minute cities, because of course she is.

Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph saying she wants to... kill all dogs??

Julie Burchill asking "does it matter if Grok undresses us all?" in The Spectator

Graham Linehan in the midst of his now four-day-long double down on Alex Pretti's murder being justified and fine.

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

I worry that with any social media ban, young ND people will lose opportunities to deep dive, infodump, and find their community.

I’m also unaware of compelling evidence that using devices like iPhones or iPads negatively affects cognition, but plenty that the reverse is true (extended mind).

Have you ever tried telling a behaviourist that they need to change their behaviour? Wild consequences, I tell you.

SEDSConnective doing great work.

From experiential attachment to nonattachment: A theory-informed review of harmful and healthy pursuits of comfort, approval, competence, status, and control Nonattachment has long been regarded as crucial for inner peace and spiritual growth, with traditions in Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Sikhism, and …

Yes-creative! I have over 30 years of observing the evolving iterations of DSM 'catagorisation'. The need to classify and box individuals for the ease/ profit of the 'practicioner in control' has outweighed the stigma/harm of the 'deficit based' labelling!$
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is powerful.

I am in surthrival mode. Moving beyond survival, considering ways I can thrive.

My 80s were spent with my older brother playing his very 70s Steely Dan records. (Insert “didn’t someone think to contact social services?” joke here.)

BUT! It always bothers me when they try to be spot on accurate. Example of getting it right: Billy Elliot - set in 1984 but soundtracked by…T Rex. And quite rightly so, people were still enjoying T Rex in 1984. Making FGTH the lynchpin of the film would be way too on-the-nose.

But on the evidence base thing, I go to the models we use - won’t list them all, but I’ve found MOHO particularly helpful to put a structure on my clinical reasoning.

Interestingly (or perhaps not, you could say) there’s quite a lot of this that I wouldn’t go along with; modifying behaviour, adherence to rules, handwriting, emphasis on participation in “healthy” activities… 🤔

There is a new autistic barbie out, but no one is talking about her mother, undiagnosed computer engineer barbie about to get the surprise of her life when she starts to argue with the evaluator that these are all normal childhood behaviours that she had when she was the same age.

Oh and I did so because I want the diminishing number of users to be apparent. I suppose it’s so flooded with bots that it makes no difference.

I deleted my entire profile over a year ago now (autumn 2023), but didn’t take any other measures - doubt anyone wants to pretend to be me there but I thought deleting account would be enough?

And ALSO you know the weird Barbie from the film? SHE is much more my idea of neurodivergent.

I think this is a good effort. I suppose on the stereotyping issue it’s difficult because we’re in the realm of making a “hidden disability” (or difference) visible. To be seen, we are literally stigmatised. For real inclusion, a neat idea would be to say of any given Barbie, “this one’s autistic!”

I think intersubjectivity can act as a useful rejoinder or critique of behaviourism, in some instances. But very interesting to consider it from an evolutionary pov.