Josef Bernard De Mesa, OTRP

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Me: I don’t feel well.

Doctor: That’s because you’re alive.

i made the mistake of working 6 days straight a week for my first 2 months of work

i just rendered my resignation in both hospitals 🙃🙃

<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library Background Some autistic children exhibit behavior that caregivers, clinicians, and researchers consider problematic. However, there is little consensus about the types of behaviors that should be t...

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Fabulous new research by this team, looking at what on earth is being measured when teams say they want to stop 'problem behaviour' in autistic young people using Early Interventions (ABA, NDBI, etc etc).
I'll discuss very briefly here../

a simpsons screenshot of a magazine “SO YOU'VE DECIDED TO BECOME ISOLATED AND WEIRD.” with bart peering out a window

OK. SO WHAT

only been working as a hospital occupational therapist for 3 days and i can't help but think that having 5 years since i last handled a client is catching up on me. i honestly feel slow, a bit lost, embarrassed even

i have to learn how to be gentle to myself. i believe this is how growth feels like

surely a vision board will fix climate change and get rid of the nazis. 2025 will be my year as long as i check off all of these self improvement goals. this will solve all the things.

Class consciousness requires a move away from the deficit model that blames all ills in society on inherent individual flaws.

The rationalist elite is the problem. They say the masses are irrational beasts who must be confined and controlled. You don't have to agree with them.

Hi! Thank you for congratulating me! I know we're in different contexts/countries but would you mind if I ask you for entry-level career tips? And hopefully, for longevity too?

A copy of the official roll of successful examinees in the Occupational Therapists Licensure Examination last December 14 and 15. The document was released today, December 17 by the Professional Regulation Commission of the Philippines. Below is a numbered list, of sequence numbers 101 to 105. At number 104 is my name in full: De Mesa, Josef Bernard Soriano.

I PASSED THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY LICENSURE EXAM 😭

it's been a journey, 10 years to be exact. failed 3 semesters. worked in call center before clinical internship, until covid hit. had to delay my university clearance to care for my mom with cancer. 1 full year review

i wish i was kinder to myself

Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | Siân Boyle ‘Brain rot’ is the Oxford word of the year – a fitting choice, given the startling impact the internet is having on our grey matter, says journalist Siân Boyle

Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore

www.theguardian.com/...

Many have asked for my take on this. So, is it another example of "I have concluded that my gut feelings are correct and I'm cherry picking 'evidence' to support it"?

Yes, yes it is
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#OccupationalTherapy educator resigns from university. Much respect for them.
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#FunFact Autistic people live in Takiwatanga time, which among many other things means, that we often find age categorizations of mainstream culture odd and nonsensical. Autistic adults may find joy many things considered "childish" including (but not limited to) plushies, legos, stickers. 1/

If human beings can't live up to a model that claims to explain human behaviour then the target of improvement should be the model. It's clearly not accurate.

Predictability isn’t what matters, control isn’t what matters either. AUTONOMY is what matters. So to optimise environments you don’t need to focus on predictability per se but rather the person’s own ability to plan, adjust, determine what’s happening and when; just as you do when moving about.5/10

‘I was in denial about it’: actor Matt McGorry on having long Covid Orange Is the New Black and How to Get Away With Murder star speaks about the disease and another way of looking at health

This is worth a read - interesting to see that some people with long COVID are taking stimulants to be able to answer their emails each morning.

www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

going to gaslight myself into feeling good : ) i am happy : )) i love my fate soooo much : ))))

My review notes had the following text: Women prefer considerateness, honesty, dependability, kindness, understanding, and earning prospects. Men, on the other hand, prefer good looks, cooking skills, and frugality. According to our lecturer, these refer to "physical attraction", which I wrote on the margin. I also wrote in uppercase: SEXIST!, with my drawing of a Squinting Face with Tongue emoji.

an uncomfortable part of studying human development is the unhelpful perpetration of outdated, rigid gender stereotypes

My handwritten notes for my upcoming licensure exam read, "Crisis: Identity confusion" leading to two possible outcomes. One is isolate, which I annotated as Hikikomori. Second is Immerse, lose oneself in crowd. I annotated that part with 365 Brat partygirl

there are two wolves inside you

(from erikson's psychosocial stage in adolescence)

Ableism teaches us to abandon each other.

Racism will disable you.
Transphobia will disable you.
Long COVID will disable you.
Genocide will disable you.
Climate change will disable you.

Do not obey when told to abandon the vulnerable.

Resistance & communities must be rooted in disability justice.

a bit irked calling myself a "professional" b/c i have my own marxist/neuronormative qualms about it - even if i'm working towards it. perhaps a better word is "practitioner". ofc there are many ways to earn public trust, but i also recognize that a license is a legal shorthand, albeit a bottleneck

A grainy webcam selfie of me past midnight in my tiny corner of a condominium unit in Manila, wearing my comfy Darth Vader T-shirt. In the background, literally behind me: a bunch of bedroom mess like a towel draped over a cabinet and a cartoonishly large cloth bag on top of it containing more bedroom mess. I may have ADHD

honestly surprised with the influx of new followers here. hello to my dear global colleagues! what you'll witness in my little bluesky is a slow-motion account of my humble and arduous transformation into becoming a near-future professional 🥴 i am studying about neurological conditions tonight

Remember: fascism thrives on apathy.

The autocrats want you to tune out. They want to overwhelm you. They want you to give up.

Don’t give them want they want.

Stay in this fight. Remain vigilant. And let’s keep building.

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i finally got my exam permit. bureaucracy here is humiliating. i've been trying to shoot my shot for 4 years and it finally came to an end. well, not exactly The End since i still have the exam to boot. and i can't fully celebrate yet because i still need to study. but it's been quite a journey

Hopepunk is the opposite of grimdark. Finding hope in the darkness is a radical, rebellious, beautiful, terrifying act--and is necessary to fight on.

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you've earned a new follower! just about to take licensure by end of year (based in The Philippines)