🐇 Having spent the last 6 weeks down a research rabbit hole, I thought it was time to pop up for air and write something useful. 🐇 Calling for feedback and correction.
Happy Birthday Leanne 🎉🎂🥳 and I'm glad you said you've been taking time for you. Self-care doesn't (I believe) come easily to highly intellectual, strong, brave neurodivergent women who have made it their mission to keep moving forward. A fantastic article, thankyou for writing it. I love your way with words as demonstrated by this gem 'Please give less f**ks about what critical people think of you. Be decisive about whose opinions you trust and value.'
Absolutely loving your posts. I have long since suspected I may be somewhat autistic and the more I learn about the way it presents in women from your research the more convinced I am! I didn’t think it would matter, but it genuinely helps me make sense of all my experiences and responses to different situations. Thank you. X
thank you for using your beautiful brain to create these wonderful resources!
You called for correction and here is what I found <3 :
🌈 Neurodiversity 101🌈 (DRAFT)
[Who is neurodivergent?]
"yellow number" - What is a yellow number for a book release? Might be a cultural contextual term. I guess it's positive since you are happy about it.
[Neurodivergent people have spiky profiles]
Love "spiky profile". It reflects so well how I experience hyper productive and social days. I have some but that is not the norm. (I think that I am still more productive than my peers though, also the productivity is highly dependent on the task). There are a lot of days were socializing is the hardest thing to do. It's like I do not have access to these abilities all the time and can't control when I do.
[Five principles of neurodiversity]
Subheaders are not read by "read aloud" function of my browser (Edge).
[Neurological difference ≠ pathological disorder]
"Advocates argue " - who are these advocates?
"Prize to the person first ..." I find prize a bit toxic, not sure if toxic is the right word but it does leave a weird aftertaste.
"verbal stim" might be a bit advanced in Neurodiversity 101? Maybe linking the a source that explains it could help. Or could be a good cue to some article that comes later.
🌈 Neurominorities (DRAFT)
[What is a neurominority?]
List with rainbows in front is not read by "read aloud" function
"non-epileptic seizures" - What are non-epileptic seizures? The paragraphs before talk about epilepsy, not non-epilepsy
CPTSD - acronym is not introduced with fully written form. Maybe it's assumed that this is a commonly known abbreviation.
🌈 Positive psychology 101 (DRAFT)
[Cultivating neuropride]
Brene Brown - Brené Brown
The "read aloud" function has difficulties reading the rainbow list in this section.
🌈 Glossary of terms (DRAFT)
Formatting - Some entries have spaces between the header and explanation and some not. Compare "Allistic" with "Comorbidity". The "read aloud" function leaves a pause between header and definition when using a blank line which is easier to follow.
Love that some of the terms have their first use listed. (My completionist instinct would love even more if all of them had a citation.) For example, "Hyperlexia (Silberberg & Silberberg, 1967)". And if not, an explanation why not, maybe their source is lost or the term is being developed by the community.
Neurominority (Walker, 2012) - (Walker, 2012) is not bold
General
links - Could you hide the links behind text? I am using the "read aloud" function in the browser (edge) to assist with focus when reading. (The links are spelled out letter for letter). From reflecting on how the text is written, I guess this was actually the plan?
Love all the references to papers, books, and other info material.
Very very minor, but observable: Some expressions end in a point (Like a sentence), some not. I have seen this in other articles around the net. Could be interpreted as sign of casualty.
I hope this was useful, happy birthday!
BTW is the More Human website up already or something you are still developing? Did not find it when searching with Bing.
This is absolutely amazing feedback. Thank you so much! I'll try get all of this edited tomorrow.
Having input about screen readers is super important to me. I'm hoping to develop a resource for designers on principles for designing for invisible disabilities.
The website isn't up yet. I'm co-creating some of the content with the women I'm researching with at the moment. I'm going to test some of that through my Substack.
When it's live you will know about it.
Thank you again for taking the time to gift the feedback for my birthday!
Happy Birthday Leanne 🎉🎂🥳 and I'm glad you said you've been taking time for you. Self-care doesn't (I believe) come easily to highly intellectual, strong, brave neurodivergent women who have made it their mission to keep moving forward. A fantastic article, thankyou for writing it. I love your way with words as demonstrated by this gem 'Please give less f**ks about what critical people think of you. Be decisive about whose opinions you trust and value.'
Thanks for this, and happy birthday!
Absolutely loving your posts. I have long since suspected I may be somewhat autistic and the more I learn about the way it presents in women from your research the more convinced I am! I didn’t think it would matter, but it genuinely helps me make sense of all my experiences and responses to different situations. Thank you. X
Hi Leanne,
thank you for using your beautiful brain to create these wonderful resources!
You called for correction and here is what I found <3 :
🌈 Neurodiversity 101🌈 (DRAFT)
[Who is neurodivergent?]
"yellow number" - What is a yellow number for a book release? Might be a cultural contextual term. I guess it's positive since you are happy about it.
[Neurodivergent people have spiky profiles]
Love "spiky profile". It reflects so well how I experience hyper productive and social days. I have some but that is not the norm. (I think that I am still more productive than my peers though, also the productivity is highly dependent on the task). There are a lot of days were socializing is the hardest thing to do. It's like I do not have access to these abilities all the time and can't control when I do.
[Five principles of neurodiversity]
Subheaders are not read by "read aloud" function of my browser (Edge).
[Neurological difference ≠ pathological disorder]
"Advocates argue " - who are these advocates?
"Prize to the person first ..." I find prize a bit toxic, not sure if toxic is the right word but it does leave a weird aftertaste.
"verbal stim" might be a bit advanced in Neurodiversity 101? Maybe linking the a source that explains it could help. Or could be a good cue to some article that comes later.
🌈 Neurominorities (DRAFT)
[What is a neurominority?]
List with rainbows in front is not read by "read aloud" function
"non-epileptic seizures" - What are non-epileptic seizures? The paragraphs before talk about epilepsy, not non-epilepsy
CPTSD - acronym is not introduced with fully written form. Maybe it's assumed that this is a commonly known abbreviation.
🌈 Positive psychology 101 (DRAFT)
[Cultivating neuropride]
Brene Brown - Brené Brown
The "read aloud" function has difficulties reading the rainbow list in this section.
🌈 Glossary of terms (DRAFT)
Formatting - Some entries have spaces between the header and explanation and some not. Compare "Allistic" with "Comorbidity". The "read aloud" function leaves a pause between header and definition when using a blank line which is easier to follow.
Love that some of the terms have their first use listed. (My completionist instinct would love even more if all of them had a citation.) For example, "Hyperlexia (Silberberg & Silberberg, 1967)". And if not, an explanation why not, maybe their source is lost or the term is being developed by the community.
Neurominority (Walker, 2012) - (Walker, 2012) is not bold
General
links - Could you hide the links behind text? I am using the "read aloud" function in the browser (edge) to assist with focus when reading. (The links are spelled out letter for letter). From reflecting on how the text is written, I guess this was actually the plan?
Love all the references to papers, books, and other info material.
Very very minor, but observable: Some expressions end in a point (Like a sentence), some not. I have seen this in other articles around the net. Could be interpreted as sign of casualty.
I hope this was useful, happy birthday!
BTW is the More Human website up already or something you are still developing? Did not find it when searching with Bing.
This is absolutely amazing feedback. Thank you so much! I'll try get all of this edited tomorrow.
Having input about screen readers is super important to me. I'm hoping to develop a resource for designers on principles for designing for invisible disabilities.
The website isn't up yet. I'm co-creating some of the content with the women I'm researching with at the moment. I'm going to test some of that through my Substack.
When it's live you will know about it.
Thank you again for taking the time to gift the feedback for my birthday!
L x