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rabia_elizabeth

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Aka rabia.elizabeth on Metafilter as of February 2023. Sheydem-tants is my old handle.

GenX, US citizen, now living in #Andalucia, Spain. #Muslimah, occasional writer of fiction and blog posts on #Islam, editor, translator.

Currently learning Arabic, very slowly. #ActuallyAutistic .

Expect some cat and food related posts! #AmWriting #Writing #AmQuerying #Editing #Translation #Castellano #Islam

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rabia_elizabeth , to ActuallyAutistic group
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Two unexpected benefits of giving up :

I'm no longer as sensitive to sound as I was. That's a major win.

Overall I'm much less anxious too.

Just in time for , Alhamdulillah. The noise level in Mecca during Dhul Hijjah is famously bananas.

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@pathfinder @actuallyautistic oh I am bringing two sets of Loops, Insha Allah. But it's nice to know that, if I forget to put them in when going outside, the sound probably won't decimate me as it once would have.

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I find I can't stomach most fiction anymore, especially anything written since about 1990. But Vanessa Chan's "The Storm We Made" is a powerful exception. Minutely and lovingly observed and the emotional punches it delivers are all earned and deserved.

It's set in in the 1930s during the British colonial period (when it was still called "Malaya") and the wartime occupation of the 1940s, and its principal characters are Malay and Japanese. So right away that sets it apart from anything I've ever read before.

What's more, most of the principal characters from whose points of view we see the story are women and girls.

It is so rare, in language fiction, to have a glimpse into the dynamics of when it's not practiced by a Western state.

The is beautifully narrated by Samantha Tan, a woman of ancestry.

Would love to hear thoughts on this book.

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@Gilliosa @bookstodon I have, long time ago, too lengthy for me to read more, but I very much liked Anna Karenina.

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Help me, Fediverse!

Around 2018, I read a popular (and excellent) book about cognition and many other things. It highlighted the insidious effects of GPS on the navigational capacity of the human brain.

It posited that human ability to navigate is so critical to our cognition that our gradual loss of that ability thanks to "helpful" technology could have untold effects.

Does this sound familiar to any of you bookworms?

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@deirdresm @bookstodon I think this was it. Thank you.

rabia_elizabeth , to ActuallyAutistic group
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Folks who are going on are advised to get things ready in event of their while on pilgrimage. Getting things ready this way is good practice, for any adult in any event.

So I find myself telling my emergency contact guy here in Spain about all the folks who likely would want to hear about it when I die. First time I do this particular task.

(The formal estate stuff is just about all sewn up, thank God. But there is the matter of emotional needs.)

I'm and have never been able to sustain most human relationships. Even so, there's a small number of people who I think would want to know.

@actuallyautistic @death @islam

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@ratcatcher @actuallyautistic @death @islam it's really kind of you to take an interest. God bless you.

The handover of the social media accounts is a puzzle. I don't know if I'll work out a good method prior to my departure for Hajj on May 30,, but God willing I will have done so before I actually depart for Parts Unknown.

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@ratcatcher @actuallyautistic @death @islam that sounds reasonable. And that safe place already exists, so I can simply add a new envelope.

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