There are two things going on in my life that dominate my time. My Mother is dying. My sons are autistic. Everything else is deformed by that lens.
What of it? Every life has its challenges and I have mine. The constant danger for me is that I am dragged down by the incremental impact of sequential disappointment and quotidian horror.
What does that mean?...
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magneticflux:
in abstract terms check out r scott bakkers writing, particularly 'the socio cognitive pollution of neuroscience' and how the modern medicalization splits us into two parts: one subject mired in manifest notions of personality, norms, morality, responsibility, will, and the other abject rooted in the increasing mountains of data flowing in from psychology and the cognitive neurosciences concerning the mechanisms that underwrite every thing about our minds (to be clear he does not push anti psychiatry)
magneticflux:
on a personal level, take it from me, what you are doing is very important. my father and i dont speak because he holds my anxiety disorder over me, claims i fake it/ its all in my head, or 'have never tried', and i get constant abuse because i have had a difficult time working.
