Category: Thoughts

Me, in a nut’s shell, now…💔

What's even worse, are the not-even-veiled, snarky hints such as, "don't be such a party-pooper", "thanks for making everyone else miserable", "why do you always have to make everything about yourself?" The world has become on an individual level, the perfect copy of "monarchies" such as the UK, where a parody "king" and his multi-bill/millionaire … Continue reading Me, in a nut’s shell, now…💔

“Sapiointimacy©” (vs. Sapiosexuality) – When ‘Coming Out’, Means Going In”, or “Desecrating my Skeletons-Closet I”

I have learned -the hard way- a lesson, having realised at 60, that I have wrecked my life, in the (altruistic or forced) service of anyone else but myself, falling for the (probably) greatest mistake an intellectual/writer/artist can make, i.e. a culturally conditioned “other half” mentality, without ever considering that for us, the cerebral connection, … Continue reading “Sapiointimacy©” (vs. Sapiosexuality) – When ‘Coming Out’, Means Going In”, or “Desecrating my Skeletons-Closet I”

Resilience

“Resilience” is one of the societal expectations concept, enforced by those who gather taxes, yet instead of having a smart Joseph to prepare the country for draught and famine, are spending them on lavish managerial indoctrinations about why employees must be “encouraged” to become “more” resilient.
In the UK, this has become visible through the shameless normalisation of “food banks”, where the majority of those who have thrown away their last molecules of dignity, are employees with full time jobs…
Excellent post from @makagutu!

Random thoughts

Merriam-Webster defines it as capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress. You wonder why I bring this up, but hear me out.

In many fora, I hear people say Africa is resilient. Speaker after speaker talk about how Kenyans are resilient, that we manage as a people to recover after tragedy but I disagree with these speakers. They are spreading a gospel I can’t consciously agree to. I am not in any way opposed to resilience, not at all. So I hope I am not misunderstood.

My argument here is that as Africans, generally, and Kenyans in specific, we have learnt to survive. There is nothing great in surviving bad leadership. What choice have we? We must keep surviving or we perish and I don’t want to call this resilience. It is just basic common sense.

I have…

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So Happy to Have Re-Found You All, and NEW BOOK announcements: DEFIANT HOPELESSNESS: The Dark Side of Asperger’s Autism Reflected in My Poetry – Vol1 -2nd, Revised, Updated & Upgraded Edition- Kindle Edition

I’m not even sure how to call what I am about to tell you. I belong to that generation, who learned the basics of Internet technology on all four, behind the desk, or under the table, crisscrossing the wires to be connected to first-generation archaic modems, which those like me can recall either by the … Continue reading So Happy to Have Re-Found You All, and NEW BOOK announcements: DEFIANT HOPELESSNESS: The Dark Side of Asperger’s Autism Reflected in My Poetry – Vol1 -2nd, Revised, Updated & Upgraded Edition- Kindle Edition

STR.ENG.TH.S.© – STRENGTHS©: STRuctured ENGagement THerapeuticSessions, an Autonomous Project for Special Communication Needs, Autism and “Neurodevelopmental Spectrum”© Disorders/Conditions units, as Structured Engagement Program of Psychologically Informed Activities – V1

(Rev.) Romulus Campan, LTh.(Hons), FdScMH(Forensic), CertEd-QTS,PgCert Special Psychopedagogy, PgCert Religion, Spirituality & Mental Health PgCert Autism & Asperger’s Forensic Psychosocial Engagement Practitioner Program Creator and Facilitator STRENGTHS© - STRuctured ENGagement THerapeutic Sessions The Program attempts embedding a refreshed perspective, alongside the complex transformational Program piloted on a Special Communication Needs, Autism and “Neurodevelopmental Spectrum”© Disorders … Continue reading STR.ENG.TH.S.© – STRENGTHS©: STRuctured ENGagement THerapeuticSessions, an Autonomous Project for Special Communication Needs, Autism and “Neurodevelopmental Spectrum”© Disorders/Conditions units, as Structured Engagement Program of Psychologically Informed Activities – V1

(Rev.) or the Jew behind the brackets -1-

[Rev.] Romulus Campan LTh (Hons), FDScMH (Forensic), CertEd, QTS, PgCert Religion, Spirituality & Mental Health, PgCert Special Psychopedagogy, PgCert Autism & Asperger’s Not all real-life stories have a beginning; especially those born from echoes of generational suffering and pain. It hurts endlessly and helplessly, running from echoes of hope-lost parents’ and grandparents’ tears, loving me, … Continue reading (Rev.) or the Jew behind the brackets -1-

Neurodiversity, or “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism” -Proposing the “Medi-Social© Model of Disability and Neurodivergence” III-

One of writing’s most complex hurdles is leaving one’s “body” to immerse in the dream within dream of creating a structure for a world somewhat different than the original. In the dystopian nightmare created by Orwell, Emmanuel Goldstein’s “book” becomes the embodiment of Winston’s hope that his participatory complicity in changing the past to suit … Continue reading Neurodiversity, or “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism” -Proposing the “Medi-Social© Model of Disability and Neurodivergence” III-

Proposing the “Medi-Social© Model of Disability and Neurodivergence” II -The Unwarranted Bias of the Social Model of Disability and Neurodivergence-

The late Prof Mark Oliver, presented on 23rd July 1990, at the Joint Workshop of the Living Options Group and the Research Unit of the Royal College of Physicians, a paper titled “THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL MODELS OF DISABILITY”, where he wrote: "The genesis, development and articulation of the social model of disability by disabled … Continue reading Proposing the “Medi-Social© Model of Disability and Neurodivergence” II -The Unwarranted Bias of the Social Model of Disability and Neurodivergence-

A Concerned Neurodivergent’s critique of Judy Singer’s “There’s a lot in a name… Diversity vs Divergence” article – I – …

I have only incidentally heard about Judy Singer, which is probably due to her two-decade long absence, which she succinctly describes as: “Returning to the field 20 years later”. As rather erratically “clarified” in her article, these motives seem to be, using the least belligerent term which comes to my mind, complex, motivated mainly as … Continue reading A Concerned Neurodivergent’s critique of Judy Singer’s “There’s a lot in a name… Diversity vs Divergence” article – I – …

The Stockholm Syndrome Symptomatology of Neurodiversity Militantism

I was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in June 2017. As I wrote in the “About…” tab of my blog, “Over 50 years of a rather odd life, came to a sudden realisation, with all the clicks and cogs falling to their right places.” Little did I know at the time, that the sudden realisation … Continue reading The Stockholm Syndrome Symptomatology of Neurodiversity Militantism