Balancing social needs and chronic illness and chronic pain and chronic fatigue and neurodivergence has proved to be a task that I'm not able to currently manage. I am working on trying to build new ways to approach filling this need and I have a few observations.To start with disabled people don't stop needing social fulfillment when they become disabled or more disabled than they had been previously when a new disability is added or a existing one changes. They do however have a... more

One of the things on my list of things to do when I'm struggling with depression is sit under the sky and think about the Drake equation. It's an equation that's supposed to figure out the likelihood of finding extraterrestrial civilizations. We don't have the actual values to actually solve it and the best guess numbers we do have boil down to effectively 0.Everyone always thinks of it in relation to finding extraterrestrial life (likely because that's what it's... more