"Sophia and I probably have something in common that neither she nor my children know about," he says very mysteriously.

Sophia: we attended suspiciously similar elementary schools.

Joaquín: we're both autistic and time blind. He's just better at time travel than me.

#CRPSugarGliders

I have a sibling who went to university many states away. The whole family traveled there for her graduation. We got seated in the overflow room, where we watched the proceedings on a projector w/a small group of other families. Looking through the program, we found the name Dee Dee Marshmallow. 🧵

The Last Woman Who Knew Everything: The Omnivorous Mind of Clémence Royer. When Clémence Royer died on February 7, 1902, she took with her into oblivion perhaps the last human brain that believed in and aimed for Complete Knowledge. She had devoted her life to the propositio...

French polymath Clémence Royer was born 196 years ago today. Now she is most known for her 1862 translation of On the Origin of Species which pushed Darwin's ideas into the realm of human evolution, but in her day she was celebrated for her encyclopedic knowledge.

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#WomenInStEM

Alice Perry in B&W head and shoulders photo #WomenInSTEM #WomenInEngineering

Alice Perry 1st woman in #Ireland to graduate w' engineering degree. Only woman to have been Irish County Surveyor (Engineer), but not allowed to do job permanently. Factory inspector, later published poet. Uni of Galway named building for her. d #OTD 21 Apr 1969 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_P...

So jealous of you Illinois folks today. Outlawing book bans is a hell of a step forward.

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Banning phones in schools won’t solve the problem of phones in schools. It’ll create different problems. Common sense rules on usage that are able to be policed would be preferable IMO.

Prohibiting kids from being taught novels in school will do nothing but ensure that they are more ignorant and less able to synthesize information, and unable to make the cognitive progress to be able to comprehend or communicate clearly. Whoever is making these decisions is an enemy of education.

One of the editors said it would take a few months to get through all the 10Queries mail, so don't give up hope yet.

I remember writing that paragraph at an airport between flights.

When I was a toddler I learned that the world was full of awful things that hurt me from time to time and no one would protect me from them. My complaints wouldn't be believed, or they would be treated like they weren't a big deal. Sometimes I'd even be made fun of for them. If I really complained hard, people would treat me like *I* was the problem.

Re-up ping this one. Later than I usually post because it's been a day.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky

Very much so.

Sophia gets frustrated by mistakes, but usually bounces back quickly.

Joaquín evaluates whether it's worthwhile to go back in time and fix it, and doesn't worry about it if not. There's something about knowing you can fix a problem but choose not to that makes it seem like less of a big deal.

posed photograph of Maria Skłodowska-Curie in her lab holding a volumetric flask. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

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That could help!

My most mysterious note is "Shadowy cold ketchup dragon". No idea where that came from. That doesn't even sound like something I'd write.

My writing notes would be truly incomprehensible to anyone else. Occasionally I don't get back to them in time and they're a bit incomprehensible to me as well.

The original inciting incident I thought of for it just doesn't seem like it's going to work, and I'm having a hard time trying to think of a different one that isn't trivially solvable with time travel. 2/2

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I submitted Just As Real, an #OwnVoices MG sci-fi story about what it would be like for a neurotypical to wake up autistic. Right now I'm trying hardest to work on a story about an autistic kid with time blindness that can time travel, but I'm a bit stuck. 1/2

#CRPSugarGliders

Interesting concept

Wondering how literal the Jumanji is.

If I'm truly inspired I'll write pretty much anytime, but if I'm supposed to be doing something else it will just be a quick note so that I don't forget.

My brain generally doesn't work well first thing in the morning. If I don't have to work sometimes I like to write around 10 or 11 AM. Weekdays I often don't start writing until 11 PM or so.

My kids love these books. I hear about them every day and have for months. I can follow some of what they say.

April is #ChildAbusePreventionMonth and I’d like to share my story behind ZCN & Friends.

The series, while a fun MG fantasy about super powers and an imaginary world, is also about my real life. Teen me coming to terms with realizing my hero was also my worst enemy. (Continued)

Not many MG stories talk about trauma and recovery from the POV of a kid, let alone what it means to have DID and deal with all that! So, I truly hope ZCN & Friends will someday become a best-selling series to help kids to understand these struggles and themselves

A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children should stop this country in its tracks. Instead, the Shreveport tragedy disappeared from the headlines in a day. We cannot allow this level of violence to fade into background noise. Ending America’s gun‑violence epidemic is a moral oblligation.

When it's 2050 and you get into a car crash because you forgot to pay the premium emergency brake subscription

Living under the genocidal erasure of Autistics is very stressful.