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⌈ Secret Post #6022 ⌋

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Fic, book, etc?

Or what was the last good thing you read?

I'm on a scifi kick lately and this came as a solid next for people who enjoyed the Murderbot books. I'm only a little bit into it but so far it's kept my interest!

I've started a LOTR reread. Reading my dad's copy. Making me feel close to him.

Also working on the Dune Encyclopedia. I have that in my car so if I need reading when I'm out I pick that up.

Next new read will be Tess Emerald Sea when I'm mentally up for new things.

I've been reading Small, But Fierce very slowly. I've been craving Hobbit fic recently. https://archiveofourown.org/works/18271727/chapters/43240049

I'm in between books. Just finished Final Girls Support Group. Now I am waiting for Out by Natsuo Kirino.

It's slow going. It's one of those books that switches between two stories every other chapter and I find myself fully engaged in one plot line while not caring much about the other. It's not awful, just slow. Which I knew going in because that's kind of Becky Chambers' style. I haven't give up on it yet, but like I said it's slow going.

Just finished reading Devotion by Hannah Kent. I bought a gorgeous hardback copy with the sea motif wrapped around the page edges so 10/10 for presentation but the story kinda stalls in the middle with a major event. Beautiful prose though.

I'm now reading A Girl Made of Air by Nydia Hetherington. Kinda hesitated because of comparisons to the Night Circus (which again was beautiful writing but NOTHING AT ALL happened and it angered me) but I'm giving it a go!

I'm trying to read The Body Keeps the Score, but it's really hard to both appreciate the valid points of the book while realizing that the subjects studied are all likely neurotypical and that trauma likely looks different in the neurodiverse. I've brought this up with my counselor (who has experience with autistic patients), and he thankfully thinks my frustration with this is completely valid. (He also has hinted that the studies being done on trauma and neurodiversity at the moment are not the highest quality.)

I ask in genuine curiosity, how can you tell the book is all about nuerotypical people?

AYRT

A quick glance at the book's index shows no mentions of autism and five pages that reference ADHD. Only one of those pages actually talked about ADHD in relation to trauma, and it talked about how the kids with ADHD came up with more gruesome or tragic storylines than the control group after both groups looked at illustrations of a person trapped in a car accident. The author doesn't seem surprised that the kids were diagnosed with ADHD, as their storylines showed signs of increased arousal, but that's the most detail given to neurodiversity that I've seen up to this point.

There's also the fact that the initial chapters discuss his early research done in the 70s and 80s. Back then, autism was treated very differently, as there was the assumption that every autistic person was nonverbal or had limited speech. Since the initial research was built on interviews with patients, there wasn't really any selection of autistic experiences. These first attempts to delve into PTSD formed the backbone for subsequent studies, studies that would end up not being designed to include autistic people for a very long time. Even setting autism aside, the fact that ADHD is mentioned in piecemeal snippets in the book isn't exactly promising despite the references to executive dysfunction and neuroscientific evidence pointing to this dysfunction showing up physically in the brain. I feel like at the very least the author could have made a statement along the lines of this executive dysfunction information needing further research to see how that impacts trauma processing in various neurodivergent populations.

Thank you for answering. I've seen this book recommended a lot and it's never really appealed to me, even less so now. I may still check it out one day, but it's pretty far down on the list.

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Activation Degradation by Marina J Lostetter

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A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

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