Part 1 It’s not about the pronouns. The pronouns themselves aren’t that important, which is why the pronouns are so very important. When you use masculine pronouns for me, you’re saying, “I see you as a man. It doesn’t matter how much you object, it doesn’t matter how much you don’t want to play the…
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Gender-Inclusive Information
This is a list of my information and writings on Gender-Inclusive Language. Trans-Friendly Pronouns: An infographic Degendering your Language: An infographic List of essays on being non-binary and respecting non-binary students A Guide to Gender-Inclusive Language (8.5 x 11)
1/29/23 Audiobooks
My first experience with an audiobook was in elementary school. I had been labeled EI–Emotionally Impaired–in Third Grade. This was, according to the documentation, because I had thrown a dictionary at another student. I don’t remember that specific incident, but I do remember throwing a desk at the teacher. This was the teacher that went…
Coloring Vertices
The other day, I came across this problem on Twitter: How many distinct ways are there to color the vertices of a cube, such that exactly four are one color and the other four are a second color? I played around a bit first. My first task was to list all the possible combinations, and…
Star Trek: The Last Bigotry
Last night I had a dream about a new Star Trek show under development. This morning, I was thinking about why people are bigoted against transgender people. Within a few minutes, I realized I was thinking about the same thing. Part 1: The Dream In my dream, NBC had originally developed a spin-off to Star…
1/8/23: Platonic limerence
The first time I was exposed to the word “limerence”, some decades ago, it didn’t really register. It felt like a fancy, dismissive word for “New Relationship Energy”, and though the two concepts are tangential, they’re not the same. Today I ran across it being used in a (potentially) Platonic sense, in terms specific to…
InferKit Test 1: Medusa
Note: I seeded InferKit with the first sentence and let it generate text until it ended on the end of a sentence. So everything after the first sentence was AI-generated. I have a ceramic bust of Medusa. You know, the woman with snakes for hair. The one who turned all of Phoenicia to stone when…
On Comorbidity
Dyscalculia is highly comorbid* with Autism. Hypercalculia is highly comorbid with Autism. Dyslexia is highly comorbid with Autism. Hyperlexia is highly comorbid with Autism. Many Autistics struggle with sensory overload and seek to minimize external stimulation. Many Autistics love sensory overload and seek to maximize external stimulation. Many Autistics prefer to live in households that…
1/4/22: Hyperlexia
I recently learned the word “hyperlexia”, which is “when a child starts reading early and surprisingly beyond their expected ability.” The second type of hyperlexia is highly associated with autism; while only about 10% of Autistics are hyperlexic, about six out of seven Hyperlexics are autistic. (Source: WebMD) At 54, it’s hard to definitively diagnose…
On Cognitive Load Theory and Story Problems
I’m currently reading “Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory in Action” by Oliver Lovell, specifically the section on reducing extraneous load during education (ca. p. 32; I’ve got the e-book). This leads me think about story problems, such as those on the SAT, which often contain information that’s irrelevant to the problem. For example: Carrie invites some…