quotidian resistance
Aug. 28th, 2019 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
For Reasons I have been having Difficulty with food, generally, for the past couple of weeks. Today I am At Home, with - due to some scheduling mishaps that have worked out in my favour - an A also At Home.
I have made soda bread, with rosemary and raisins. I have topped up the buttermilk and it's resting. The yoghurt has come out of the Instant Pot and gone into the fridge. I have prepared the base mix for vanilla ice cream, at Adam's request, to rest overnight and be churned tomorrow. I have eaten soda bread and pickled onions and cheeses and a perfect pear, all of which I actively wanted to eat. I have ingredients for tagine and am working slowly up to maybe making it. I will shortly feed the sourdough.
I wanted to go to the central London protest this evening and had every intention of doing so. And then I had to go out for eggs for the ice cream and I got more and more panicked as I got closer and closer to home, and have decided, to my very great frustration, that trying to get out this evening is really not a good idea.
I can keep myself alive, though, and coax myself back toward health, and keep feeding people, and I have signed the (38deg) petitions (No10); as my next step I will get in touch with my MP.
Keep living seems a small thing, a sad thing to offer (not quite what you deserve me to be), but it's what I've got tonight.
I have made soda bread, with rosemary and raisins. I have topped up the buttermilk and it's resting. The yoghurt has come out of the Instant Pot and gone into the fridge. I have prepared the base mix for vanilla ice cream, at Adam's request, to rest overnight and be churned tomorrow. I have eaten soda bread and pickled onions and cheeses and a perfect pear, all of which I actively wanted to eat. I have ingredients for tagine and am working slowly up to maybe making it. I will shortly feed the sourdough.
I wanted to go to the central London protest this evening and had every intention of doing so. And then I had to go out for eggs for the ice cream and I got more and more panicked as I got closer and closer to home, and have decided, to my very great frustration, that trying to get out this evening is really not a good idea.
I can keep myself alive, though, and coax myself back toward health, and keep feeding people, and I have signed the (38deg) petitions (No10); as my next step I will get in touch with my MP.
Keep living seems a small thing, a sad thing to offer (not quite what you deserve me to be), but it's what I've got tonight.
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Date: 2019-08-28 05:58 pm (UTC)On the other, her most recent two retweets are about ~gut microbiome transfers~ and ~their effects on autism-like behaviours~ and
I do not
even know
where to start
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Date: 2019-08-28 06:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2019-08-31 05:14 am (UTC)If such things caused better absorption of nutrients and/or reduced intestinal pain (e.g., gas, etc.), then I'm sure there might be a lessening of stress, and thus a lessening of the "symptoms" of a stressed autistic person. (Which probably describes most or all of the autistic folks they've been dealing with.)
I would not want to throw around words like "cure," however. Not least because I do not want my Offspring to shiv me, but also because most of the autistic behaviors that upset neurotypicals tend to be responses to stressors*, and therefore a "lessening of autistic symptoms" is probably "individual has more spoons to cope with stressors in the environment." They're not "less autistic"; they're less stressed.
(*Others are "happy stimming" behaviors, which neurotypicals find unpredictable and thus get all bent out of shape about, and some are "avoiding a stressor in the first place" behaviors.)
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Date: 2019-08-29 09:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2019-08-28 06:32 pm (UTC)You alive is a big win.
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Date: 2019-08-28 06:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-08-28 06:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-08-28 06:47 pm (UTC)https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/28/protest-planned-queen-approves-parliament-suspension-10645072/
and I got more and more panicked as I got closer and closer to home, and have decided, to my very great frustration, that trying to get out this evening is really not a good idea.
Sounds like a good call. Frustrating, but the right decision.
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Date: 2019-08-28 06:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-08-28 08:20 pm (UTC)I’m glad you managed to have food today, and hope the situation continues to improve.
<3
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Date: 2019-08-28 08:22 pm (UTC)I ended up actively Wanting To Cook Dinner instead of Giving Up And Ordering Takeaway this evening, so signs are promising. <3
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Date: 2019-08-28 09:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2019-08-29 04:54 am (UTC)I'm debating whether to bother writing to "my" MP, because it's Ross Thomson...
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Date: 2019-08-29 06:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-08-29 09:28 am (UTC)Been there. There sucks. Alive good. <333
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Date: 2019-08-29 11:29 am (UTC)"Clearly I am spending the day in the kitchen and garden because politics are too stressful to do anything other than gentle self-care.
I cannot protest safely -- I know the point is to be heard, not to be safe, but please believe me when I say the risks work out differently for me.
Things are bad, politically, where I am. But I will still have bread tonight. I will still have passata next week.
I can't do a lot more about the political situation than sign some petitions and contact my MP. I do these things even though they feel futile.
But I can tie back tomatoes, feed the sourdough culture, pull dandelions. "
Solidarity.
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