I want to dig into the internal tension between can and can’t. Not what others think about disability, or say about our capacity, and not what society says we should be able to do based on their assumptions about the jumble of letters we were handed by a human in a white coat.

I am talking about what you think about your capacity, and what you say to yourself when no one else is listening.

I am talking to you, the invisibly disabled human who is on the line dancing between a binary that you never signed up for, because it feels like all or nothing is the only option available to you.

Can or cannot. Do or do not, there is no try. All that yoda shit.

Hey Gay. Happy Pride Month!

In honour of Pride, this month’s experiment is all about exploring gender euphoria. Because the T in 2SLGBTQ+ has always been there and will always be there. Now don’t get it twisted, this experiment is not exclusive to trans folx. Gender exploration is for everyone, cis and trans, binary and non-binary, no matter what conclusions you come to about yourself.

 A couple weeks ago I wrote a blog about how humans generally have 8 senses (you can read that blog here). We identified each of the senses and talked about how it is possible to have sensitivities in every single one. For a lot of humans managing these sensory sensitivities can be a challenge at the best of times. These days, the world is so often a sensory nightmare to navigate. So in today’s blog we are going to talk about a way to take some of the sensory pressure off yourself by building a Sensory Safe Space.

Now I find it pretty regular that people will talk about having ‘executive dysfunction’ without a lot of clarity on what that actually means. This is why I built a workshop called The Executive Function Luncheon. If you want to run experiments to support your executive functions we need to get really specific about which executive functions you need support with. The Luncheon is all about exploring our executive functions, and designing your own experiments to find the supports that work for you. None of this ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ nonsense.