July Blog Carnival
The July Edition of the blog Carnival Against Child Abuse is up, hopefully I’ll be able to get some time to read through some of the other entries!
Dr. Kathleen Young is hosting, and has themed this month’s edition as the Independence edition. Looks to be packed full of good stuff. If you want to do some reading this weekend, check it out!
Pin You should not feel sorry for me. This post isn’t about me. As I said, I have a condition that millions of people deal with every day. I’ll do the same. It’s about the reality that people around us are living with things that require efforts that we don’t understand. Just showing up for life every day requires effort and dedication from everyone you know. The amount of effort and challenges are different, and they are not distributed equally. You shouldn’t dismiss anyone’s struggles, especially if you’ve not been in those same circumstances yourself.Â
Some things have to be experienced to see all the details. When someone is willing to share the details of their challenges, listen and learn. Raise their voices instead of assuming you know the answers.Â
Experience is a hard teacher. We all can learn the lessons from those who’ve lived it.Â
Discovered a handful of new blogs this week that I’ve added to the side of the page. First a pair of abuse survivors DanDare, and Jennefer, and also a blog by someone dealing with MS called Thoughts from my broken brain. Thank you for sharing your stories with us!
You know what? I was eating my lunch and the screensaver came on my PC this afternoon. My screensaver in XP is set to randomly show pictures from the My Pictures folder, and I put a bunch of different pictures from different trips in there. Now normally that isn’t exactly news worthy, or even blog…
The other day I was doing some reading about “confirmation bias”, our natural tendency to process information in ways that agree with what we already believe to be true, and ignoring information that challenges those beliefs. We see this frequently when it comes to politics, for example. People who lean one way or another on…
I got an email last week from Robert Eggleton, about a novel he has written, Rarity from the Hollow: [quote]Lacy Dawn, the protagonist, is a victim of child abuse from an impoverished hollow of a rural state who overcomes by empowering others and ends up saving the universe. She is a composite character based on…
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