#ActuallyAutistic#Neurodivergent folks, I have a workshop with K-12 professionals soon. What online resources or books/podcasts/movie recommendations would you like educators to have? I have a big list, but always looking for more.
Your post hits me in multiple nerddoms 🤩 Do you ever test (e.g., get viewer feedback) to confirm that the impact is as you intended, or always rely on the design principles?
I made a feed for writing sprint posts because they inspire me to also do a sprint - here it is, in case it is useful to anyone else! #kidlitchat
Extrinsic motivation can be great! A friend and I did a prompt-based short story contest earlier this year, and it was exhilarating to successfully complete with a forced word limit, time limit, theme, character, and genre. It also helped me realize that outlines are my friend. #kidlitchat
Lots of Princess in Black with the 5 year olds. Personally, working through Joanna Lowell's A Shore Thing, and Mark A. Green's Round We Dance.
And the weaker the attachment to the old content #kidlitchat
Creative choices are currently a respite from other daily choices for me. For the most part, the creative decisions are all about what is the most fun, and the pressures are relatively low. If I'm lucky, that mindset sticks around a little bit when other daily life decisions pop up. #kidlitchat
In grad school I heard the phrase "All models are wrong, but some are useful". For decision-making (creative and in general) this helps me reframe from expecting a "right" decision to accepting any reasonable path forward. Or, as Whitney Houston sang, "It's not 'right' but it's okay." #kidlitchat
(45 minutes later, I’m still humming “Rise again, rise again” 🎶)