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HardBeingGreen

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Australian Greens voting, racehorse owning punter

A strange mix but I Iike most of their policies

I set this account up mostly to focus on #auspol with a scattering of international and state politics as well

Overall, politics. I'm looking for respectful debate not argument

I might not shout it out loud all the time but I'm an ally and supporter of diversity

Federal public servant and a proud member of the CPSU

#Yes23

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Susan60 , to ActuallyAutistic group
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My oldest sent me this. My head just exploded. The first draft of my first 3000 word essay in uni was 8000 words long.

My history essays at uni were labours of love. I could never understand the concept of “pulling an all-nighter” the night before the essay was due. How was such a thing even possible? You had to do hours & hours of reading, note-taking, reflection…
And then write & write & write all that stuff that begged to be said, and then cull & cull & cull & then rewrite to knit the remaining pieces together fluently… And somehow end up with a piece that sent shivers down your spine & got you an HD.

Didn’t you? Or was that just me?

When teaching narrative writing to teens, I could only teach it in a formulaic way. I could only write formulaic model texts. They were quite good, with some character development, voice, interesting vocab etc, but the structure was formulaic.

I could never imagine myself as a writing a novel. Quirky short pieces maybe, but not a novel. And yet my oldest wrote their first novella as a teen.

I need to lie down. Oh, I am. It’s 5am and my cat adoption excitement has woken me. I’m discombobulated. Again.

@actuallyautistic

https://autisticphd.com/theblog/what-is-bottom-up-thinking-in-autism/

HardBeingGreen ,
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@Susan60 @actuallyautistic interesting

I always crammed, why do something weeks before it's due if you can do it on the day or the night before? 🙂

HardBeingGreen ,
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@Susan60 @actuallyautistic I wasn't even close to being a star student but I knocked my arts degree over in 2.5 years and managed 1 high distinction, from memory

I probably would have done a lot better if I put more effort in, and spent less time at the bar lol, but it all worked out in the end

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