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11:32am June 3, 2014

I didn’t think this should need any explanation, but apparently it does.  I’ve explained it before I think, but it couldn’t hurt to explain it again.

Sometimes I vigorously celebrate certain qualities that I have, certain experiences I have had, certain things I have done, certain ways that I do things.

This does not mean that I am putting down the way anyone else does things.  This is true even when I point out the flaws in other ways of doing things.

Most of these things that I celebrate like this?  Are things that I have been told all my life make me bad, defective, wrong, stupid, horrible, and broken.  Most of the things that I may end up criticizing in the course of all this, are things that have been held up to me all my life as perfection, as how things should be, as how people should think, as how everyone’s brain should work.

If your brain happens to not work like mine, I am not putting you down in any way.  Even if your brain works in a way that it does things that I criticize to some extent.  I am just trying to take a tiny, tiny bit of space in the world where I can say that who I am, the way I have been built, the way my brain works, is not horrible, and in fact can do some things better than the usual ways.