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30/11/2025

30/11/2025

Success requires a sense of humour

13/11/2025

Oh, baby! Two separate conversations today encapsulated. People with autism and ADHD (not a deficit disorder, but a difference but the acronym is deemed too prevalent to change), such people suffer high levels of stress and receive such negative responses to ordinary behaviours that they suffer disability-level anxiety, panic attacks, PTSD and other trauma consequences. High stress means more likely injury including repetitive strain injuries and other work or recreational injuries, more severe injuries because they are 'too tight'. High stress means the adrenal gland overrides the body's defences against disease (immunity). When the adrenal gland 'relaxes' the immune system is taking a nap and that's why people get sick on holidays/vacations and weekends. And why stressed people including everyone with Au and ADHD are more likely to get sick. And being more often sick, and worse, gets them a reputation for malingering and hypochondria and just plain being difficult and unemployable. And being sick all the time is emotionally and physically draining.
So, RJK wants to put us in a concentration camp. Well that is typical of his superstitious, hysterical religious extremist family, BUT if he offered us all a nice paid spa break with access to crisis counsellors and masseurs ...

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13/11/2025

Naptime is natural. There is some research saying that people would have a long sleep and then day-part 2. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleephttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep

In the 1950s, every kindergartener knew the ritual: crayons down, lights low, and the soft hum of a record spinning through the air.
Naptime wasn’t a break — it was part of learning.

Teachers dimmed the lights, tiptoed between mats, and whispered, “Close your eyes.”
Kids rested, dreamed, or just stared at sunbeams dancing on the ceiling — learning something we’ve since forgotten: that rest is part of growth.

Then came the tests.
The “readiness.”
The race to get ahead.
By the 1980s, naps were gone. The mats rolled up. The lights stayed on.

Today, five-year-olds spend more time in structured lessons than third-graders did in the 1950s — no pauses, no quiet, no chance to just be.
And we wonder why they’re anxious.

Maybe it’s time we remembered what our teachers once knew:
You don’t grow by running all the time.
You grow in the stillness too.
Even big kids need naptime sometimes.

12/11/2025

https://youtu.be/Fi98GISmp3s

Iconic song of celebration, encouraging us to be and celebrate our own potential for magic.

11/11/2025

10/11/2025