Going back in time

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling. 

Time plays games with your mind. Sometimes it distorts your memory of past experiences. Shades them in memorable hues. 

Makes you want to go back 5, 10, 15 years ago, for no real reason than to experience that life again, but with this mind. The mind you now have, which has so much more understanding than the foolish one from all those years ago. 

Anyway, been thinking about how stupid that is... right? Nothing can literally take you back to a time in the past. 

Except... maybe meeting someone after very long who's been a constant pretty much through your earlier years? 

Meeting a friend kinda has that vibe. 

Should do it more often. 

But the world seems to be moving in a direction where the chances of this happening are getting slimmer and slimmer by the day. Everything wants you to be online nowadays.... like all the pissing time. 

Maybe we'll be making these plans on the Metaverse a few years from now. 

Or so zuck wishes. 

Fuck zuck. 

THE CHATTER #2

Been a bit late on posting these. 

Here's the CHATTER #2 - Why many of us discover our Neurodivergence late in life. 

THE CHATTER (aka "much much")

We started a vlog series three weeks ago. It's our first vlog series. 

We decided to start one because it would keep our Youtube channel active. Plus it's a decent way to keep a conversation going with our audience. 

The series is (not so) imaginatively called THE CHATTER. It's a play on much much, of course, but also because it's literally just piece to camera talk. 

For now we're doing things that will demystify neurodiversity and disability for a broad based audience. Also, things that will help more of us do day to day stuff better. 

Kind of self-help plus community building, I guess. 

Anyway - seriously lots is happening on this front now, so don't know how we're going to keep it up, but I know that we will. 

Cuz we have to. 

Here is the first episode of THE CHATTER - 

It's been a while...

...and in that while, among other things we travelled to Bengaluru for the IIS. 

It's an annual disability summit where disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill people from around the world convene to discuss all things accessibility, agency and accommodation. 

We met a lot of people we'd only had online meetings with. 

It was a good two days of networking. Got lots of ideas for what we could do if we ever did something similar for autistics. 

On a seperate note, Aditi fell sick the moment we reached Bangalore. The weather there doesn't suit her. She had allergies, a high fever and weakness. We were in Marathahalli, which is also a 20-min, traffic-laden drive from the conference venue. 

Finding cabs is a nightmare in Bangalore. Even walking on the road is. Had to walk 20 minutes through pothole-riddled roads and back alleys to find a medical, which didn't have Crocin Advance (they had the 650, a slightly stronger variant without the Combiflam). 

Had some decent food. Ordered in most days, and on the last day we went to Yogisthaan in Indira Nagar, which is a yoga studio-organic restaurant. We had a fruit bowl, a quinoa salad meal, and some juice. 

Watched a LOT of Silicon Valley. Cannot believe I hadn't discovered it until a week ago. Wtf. 

Lots of work to do now that we're back.