Reflections on Accepting One's Place Among Missing Generations
Non-speaking Languages
silentmiaow: The first part is in my "native language,"
and then the second part provides a translation, or at least an explanation. This
is not a look-at-the-autie gawking freakshow as much as it is a statement about what
gets considered thought, intelligence, personhood, language, and communication,
and what does not.
The Sensorium
The total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by
individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of
information about the world around us by using faculties of the mind such as
senses, phenomenal and psychological perception, cognition, and intelligence.
(Wikipedia, 2022)
See also:
Jackson, M. (1983). Thinking through the Body: An Essay on
Understanding Metaphor. Social Analysis 14:127-48.
Ong, W. J. (1991). The Shifting Sensorium. In The Varieties of Sensory Experience.
David Howes, ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 47-60.
Neurodivergence-Informed Therapy
re-conceptualization of dysfunction as relational rather than individual
(supplanting pathology with neurodivergent perspectives)
importance of neurodivergence acceptance, disability community, pride,
and culture to emancipation from neuro-normativity
need for a relational epistemic humility regarding different experiences
of neurodivergence and disablement
(Chapman & Botha, 2022)
Experiential
Contemplation of Non-Speaking Communication and Rhetoricity of Identity
beyond five senses: interoception, proprioception, neuroception, nociception
moving among group members without using eye contact or vocalizations
dyadic subgroups exploring the claiming and receiving of identity labels
receiving line for official introduction of a newly adopted identity
References
Larson, M. P. (2024). Divergent Embrace: Reflections on Accepting One's Place Among