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Shunra

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Here, where I want to be.

Sometimes known as @ShunraCat. I am susceptible to poetry, excited by technology, with a special emphasis on the kind that makes fabrics and textiles.
Sumerian myth rocks my world; so do some bits of math and some bits of poetry.
I ferment things.

I translate for a living. BDS! BLM! Trans rights are human rights!
"It's inconceivable that something should be lost forever." - Šurupag.
She/her.

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lulu, to random
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In other news, I have pretty much convinced myself that I'm probably autistic.

Shunra,
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@lulu they didn’t use to diagnose it for those of us who could talk.

Also, you may find this podcast enlightening (https://squarepeg.community/podcast/) - it manifests very differently for girls.
I suggest you listen from the earliest episodes, there is a LOT that you may find relevant.

Shunra,
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@lulu apparently so, by all signs.

I went the standard path for women my age (diagnosis via child(ren)), but once I knew what to look for - there’s barely anyone non-autistic around.

Masking is huge, of course, and obstructs visibility into the extent, and blocks comforting information.

Oh, and the podcast? It's defined as directed at women of all kinds, not at all exclusive to AFAB.

You count, you are seen.

Shunra,
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@lulu very few people who don't hyperfocus and peeserverate is willing to put up with my enthusiastic mention of loom weights in casual conversation.

Can’t imagine why, they are so very interesting…

Shunra,
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@lulu “Women’s Work, The First 20,000 Years”, by Elizabeth Wayland Barber.

Andthen everything else she wrote.
It’s ~30 years old and is not appropriately inclusive, but please read yourself into the overlap of tech and language.

FWIW, I basically sat on Yossi until he read it, and it was like lightning bolts over his head went off. Paradigm-shifting, even after ~30 years.

Shunra,
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@lulu
Spinning fiber into string is very worthwhile.
It is tangentially related to loom weights (the problem of fiber is: how not to tangle. It wants to tangle.) but doing it oneself answers a bunch of other important questions.

And it takes hair, from a sheep (for example), in one hand, and skill and a weighted stick in the other, and in between them is the magic of humanity.

Yes, it makes me cry every time. Indistinguishable from magic.

Shunra,
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@lulu I'll be right here whenever you read that book and are jumping up and down needing to tell someone, anyone, of how amazing it is.

Like my friend Mary was for me. Like I was for Yossi. And for the (oops) dozens of other people who needed this book so much, to understand about our world, our history, our - everything.

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