My First Blog Entry...
I was recently at my therapist (ya, therapists are good for your mental health. Try one.) and she told me that whatever I do next in my life, I should keep sharing what I know. What I’ve learned over my lifetime (so far at least). This led me to thinking about how we don’t really value what our elders say. Specifically, my therapist was addressing what I share as far as knowing about gender, sexual and neuro- diversity. Offensively, queers and retards. But there’s so much more to people than meets the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and hands (that’s 5 senses, right?). What exists, is indeed a “spectrum” - that now-overused organization name for diverse groups. It means that there isn’t just “this or that” There’s everything in between and nothing at all. To be fair, my therapist’s suggestion was to write an advice column so I could respond to real people about real things in real time and not just try to wax philosophical about a bunch of crap. I think that’s probably good advice in and...