Looking at the anecdotes posted at tsastatus.net for SEA and SFO sent me diving for a Klonopin.
By eriktrips
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Also posted in autism, domestic policy, flight, ptsd, queer, transgender, US
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Tagged autism, culture, disability, domestic policy, nonfiction, psychological disability, ptsd, rape, sexual abuse, transgender, US
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In my dreams soldiers shadows steel-browed and tensile
summon aircraft screeching phallic and armed.
By eriktrips
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Also posted in poetry, ptsd, writing
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Tagged disability, experimental, language, metonymy, nonfiction, poetry, psychological disability, ptsd, writing
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When I was six nobody knew where Seattle was. That was not at all what I meant to say.
By eriktrips
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Also posted in autobiography, depression, flight, nonfiction, politics, queer, writing
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Tagged autobiography, Berkeley, disability, flight, fundamentalism, nonfiction, politics, queer, San Francisco, Seattle, writing
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As it happens, I have decided to, if not systematically, then at least with some sense of deliberation, try to unpack the tangle of narrative and nervous tissue that constitutes my own origin myth. Some of this involves therapy; some of it involves finishing the goddamned autobiography already.
By eriktrips
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Also posted in autism, autobiography, depression, ptsd, walkaway from fundamentalism
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Tagged american culture, autism, autobiography, christianity, disability, fundamentalism, introversion, mental illness, ptsd, religion, spiritual abuse
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Taking care that one is engaged every moment in productive activity is related to the meticulous care that some say must be taken to guard one’s thoughts from the temptations of the devil, and that has roots in a distaste for anything that distracts from the Platonic Good.
By eriktrips
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Also posted in autobiography, depression, nonfiction, politics
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Tagged autobiography, cultural theory, difference, disability, diversity, neurodiversity, paradigm shifts, psychological disability
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…it occurred to me that there may be some sort of connection between my ambivalent attitude towards social networking and the difficulty I have keeping up with even the most leisurely schedule I can possibly come up with for myself even though there are many, many things that I want to do before I die…
By eriktrips
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Also posted in autobiography, nonfiction, writing
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Tagged autism, autobiography, disability, executive functioning, nonfiction, productivity, psychological disability, social web, writing
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I have been waiting for the other shoe to drop since I was old enough to understand how we in the Western world project ourselves out into the future in a teleological way—or at least as soon as I developed the idea of a near future with consequences attendant on whatever I was doing now…
Because I am nobody sitting here in a deserted corner of the intarwebs, my post on the subject is not in this list, but bloggers all over the place are still talking about the racism inherent in blaming California African Americans for passing Proposition 8 on Tuesday. Alas, a blog has posted a list of [...]
By eriktrips
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Also posted in autobiography, depression, politics, ptsd, Uncategorized
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Tagged autobiography, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, politics, ptsd, westboro baptist
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It is Friday for me although the clock says Saturday and Saturday is streaking across the Pacific Ocean towards the International Date Line where it will turn into Sunday streaking across the Pacific Ocean towards Asia and eventually back through here again and then it will be Sunday but right now it is Friday and [...]
I almost cannot stand the sound of small aircraft flying overhead. I am reminded of this by the feeling I get when I hear a single prop engine plane passing over the city, something that does not happen often in San Francisco, I think because the airspace here is so crowded that most non-commercial low-altitude [...]
