@drkaradymond.bsky.social
AuDHD teacher, consultant & award-winning university lecturer. Author: Creating a Neurodiversity-Affirming Classroom & The Autism Lens. Podcaster: Autistic Tidbits & Tangents. (she/her)🧠🥄❤️🐈 www.karadymond.com
We only dipped our toes in the water of this conversation on educational ableism! Time just flew, as usual. Thanks, @endseclusion.bsky.social
- so much more to say and I'm grateful you create these forums! The full conversation is available: www.youtube.com/live/yR4BvnB...
“COVID-aware communities must provide safe spaces for generationally disabled families to celebrate access justice and radical inclusion."
"A core principle of disability justice is cross-disability organizing. Fighting for collective liberation is essential.”
Read this incredible breakdown from @canarysend.bsky.social
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I still struggle with this, intensely. I discussed with a young student struggling with this today how important it is to resource ourselves, to get angry and fear out of our bodies when we can, to exercise, to sing, to rest... Do I take my own advice? Not enough.
New study highlights the day-to-day importance of autistic flow
Work by Daniella Wain and colleagues details a non-pathologising view of flow states in autistic individuals, and how they maintain wellbeing
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By Emily Reynolds
03 March 2026
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And meanwhile they're counting the days precisely between refills to make sure we're not abusing them because stimulants are addictive for others.... Lollll... Nope, still not forming habits!
I wish I could say this was unbelievable... I wouldn't have imagined I could dislike testing more but someone figured out how to Frankenstein it with a behaviorist stoplight system!
I am comforted by zooming out to realize how small I am, and how much was here before and will go on after. I marvel to bear witness to stars, some of which are already extinguished. I am steadied by the trees I talk to, and the lasting topographies that perhaps observe us the way we do stars...
You can become disabled or homeless at any time.
They aren’t moral failings.
You can’t “just try harder”.
All it takes is one accident, one illness, one catastrophic event and your life changes forever.
It’s a minority group you can join at any time.
He broke the law.
She was illegal.
They’re a criminal.
This is what people say when we point out the abuse & atrocities in the ICE camps.
No one should be treated this way.
No one should be denied food, water & medical care.
No one should be denied due process.
I just never seem to pick good pears. However there is a pear and apple orchard near me and I have wanted to go the last two years, and just always seem to go when they are out of season!! Lol...
"As teachers, we know it’s important to connect with students. We know having a good relationship makes everything else easier…" — Kara Dymond, bit.ly/4kpejv6
#QOTW #profdev #autism #TheAutismLens #teaching #learning #education #edusky
So excited about this new publication published today written by me, Lincoln S. Smith, PhD, and Dr. Kathy Broad entitled "Resisting Hegemony in Teacher Education: Possibilities for Transformational Teaching and Learning Within Neoliberal Systems".
It's open access: repamjournal.org/index.php/RE...
Happy birthday!
I emailed them and they claimed to have not heard of this happening and it must have been incorrectly stored (it was not, at least on my end). Meanwhile, I went down a Reddit rabbit hole and saw plenty of people with the same or close to the same batch numbers had also complained...
I love mine! Although I had one whole box of tests that gave invalid results and weren't expired.
I wanted to see how far it is (not very) and pulled it up on a map. There was a nice heritage home as the small image in the corner. I clicked on it and was very amused and even more eager to visit!!
Sounds like you've got your priorities straight and I have a new place to visit 🤣
Heads up if you have a disability...
@aircanada.bsky.social is charging my wife and I hundreds of dollars extra because she uses a wheelchair and they won’t provide an accessible airport transfer (which we paid for in the package) that she can use unless we pay more.
Thank you for all the good you put out in the world! It is so needed.
His response is NY?
This suggests there were other colluding gynecologists in other cities.
A joyful, heartfelt conversation and the only proof needed of the importance of the arts. 20 min mark sets up a brilliant performance but the whole interview will bolster you.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Brave, powerful testimony. As an autistic person I acutely feel her confusion and overwhelm and inability to process. I experience visceral flashes of memories like she describes. Watch the video of her illegal detainment. I can't word now. Horrified.
Not just a body.
Thank you, Aliya Rahman.
Aliya Rahman is giving truly powerful and terrifying testimony
An American citizen attacked, assaulted and detained by her own country.
A woman with physical disability MOCKED by ICE.
They called detainees "bodies". They didn't see them as human. They were just BODIES.
I am gutted hearing her.
Want to engage deeply with my book, or concepts like UDL, accessibility, and neurodiversity-affirming pedagogy? Sign up for a book study! I'll be joining the final session and look forward to hearing your ideas - let's imagine and actualize better together.
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Beautifully written and resonates with me as a human, as a teacher, and as a learner. I have been discussing with my co-researcher about the privileging of speed and knowing, rather than relational process and learning, despite most of us believing the factory model is not what education should be!
It helps to separate pieces!
Each time, some will find the mental gymnastics required to disbelieve their eyes impossible. Every act of murder, cruelty, and kidnappings of children will only whittle away their base. They are not adding to their numbers, only to their own opposition. They are hacking away at their own stilts.