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@ottheorypraxis.bsky.social
Occupational Therapy, Phenomenology and Neurodiversity-affirming practice. #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD He/Him
Lava lamp / Bloom (Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers app) combo.
October 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Lava lamp / Bloom (Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers app) combo.
I walk around with Reflection, an app by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers, in my noise cancelling headphones. After years of use I find it familiar and grounding. The sound bank it draws on is not as beautiful as some of Eno’s other work (Thursday Afternoon, or Lux), but it works well. Good at home too.
October 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I walk around with Reflection, an app by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers, in my noise cancelling headphones. After years of use I find it familiar and grounding. The sound bank it draws on is not as beautiful as some of Eno’s other work (Thursday Afternoon, or Lux), but it works well. Good at home too.
Here are some light boxes in action.
October 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Here are some light boxes in action.
You can stick your nose deep into the concave bell glass and inhale deeply. I often try it in department stores. But it contains the smell too (in case it bothers others). Here’s the one I use at home (lit in this case).
October 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
You can stick your nose deep into the concave bell glass and inhale deeply. I often try it in department stores. But it contains the smell too (in case it bothers others). Here’s the one I use at home (lit in this case).
Brian Eno and Bette A.’s book What Art Does is such a pleasure to read. This page made me reflect on being autistic and my love of ambient music.
September 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Brian Eno and Bette A.’s book What Art Does is such a pleasure to read. This page made me reflect on being autistic and my love of ambient music.
I did the same years ago in the Irish version. Got five in, on five consecutive days!
September 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I did the same years ago in the Irish version. Got five in, on five consecutive days!
I rant a lot about sensory rooms, and maybe there are bigger fish to fry but, irrespective of how nice they may be to chill out in for SOME people SOMETIMES, why assume autistic people should live in an alternative reality that looks like the picture below? We are OF THIS WORLD, you know.
August 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I rant a lot about sensory rooms, and maybe there are bigger fish to fry but, irrespective of how nice they may be to chill out in for SOME people SOMETIMES, why assume autistic people should live in an alternative reality that looks like the picture below? We are OF THIS WORLD, you know.
They’re not talking about disability, they’re talking about disability as defined in the Disability Act which, as it is interpreted in wildly liberal ways, is not the same thing.
July 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
They’re not talking about disability, they’re talking about disability as defined in the Disability Act which, as it is interpreted in wildly liberal ways, is not the same thing.
As an autistic OT, working with autistic people, I often find certain terminology icky without completely knowing why: autism being treated as a “condition” is a case in point. I’m ok with idea of the “human condition”, but in autistic context it feels wrong. This book helps make sense of it.
July 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
As an autistic OT, working with autistic people, I often find certain terminology icky without completely knowing why: autism being treated as a “condition” is a case in point. I’m ok with idea of the “human condition”, but in autistic context it feels wrong. This book helps make sense of it.
Non OT post, but Pop is my defining occupation: I’m really enjoying @wadeywade.bsky.social ‘s marvellous book 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer. Never in doubt it would be good, Ian is a witty perceptive writer. It works as a nice counterpart to Jon Savage’s recent more academic history of gay pop.
May 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Non OT post, but Pop is my defining occupation: I’m really enjoying @wadeywade.bsky.social ‘s marvellous book 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer. Never in doubt it would be good, Ian is a witty perceptive writer. It works as a nice counterpart to Jon Savage’s recent more academic history of gay pop.
Love this. And here is something I’ve been saying for years…
March 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Love this. And here is something I’ve been saying for years…
I want to recommend this book to all, and of course this album. “The simplicity and completeness of Kraftwerk’s vision made it a world you could immerse yourself in as you consumed it”, writes the author. Perfectly sums up hyperfocus, and how the best art creates another possible world in this one.
March 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I want to recommend this book to all, and of course this album. “The simplicity and completeness of Kraftwerk’s vision made it a world you could immerse yourself in as you consumed it”, writes the author. Perfectly sums up hyperfocus, and how the best art creates another possible world in this one.
Some light boxes I made for the quiet room at work. People requested low lighting. I’m not allowed plug anything in. These are mini storage boxes, coloured plastic and cheap LED lights.
February 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Some light boxes I made for the quiet room at work. People requested low lighting. I’m not allowed plug anything in. These are mini storage boxes, coloured plastic and cheap LED lights.
As I read chapters I do this… tick and give a little one or two word appraisal.
February 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
As I read chapters I do this… tick and give a little one or two word appraisal.
From the quiet room I created in work.
February 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
From the quiet room I created in work.
Occupations have a form, function and meaning. I’m always trying to promote the idea that considering function - while essential - doesn’t exhaust analysis of occupations. These 2 pages from Brian Eno and Bette A.’s new book What Art Does more or less illustrates what I mean.
February 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Occupations have a form, function and meaning. I’m always trying to promote the idea that considering function - while essential - doesn’t exhaust analysis of occupations. These 2 pages from Brian Eno and Bette A.’s new book What Art Does more or less illustrates what I mean.
I’m wearing my Jenny Holtzer t-shirt today.
February 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I’m wearing my Jenny Holtzer t-shirt today.
This point is CRUCIAL for #OccupationalTherapy - Shared concerns of #existentialism and #phenomenology, as outlined in the Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism. (Text in photo reproduced as ALT text.) Suspicion of scientist and objectivism, irreducibility of embodied perspective, lived experience.
January 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This point is CRUCIAL for #OccupationalTherapy - Shared concerns of #existentialism and #phenomenology, as outlined in the Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism. (Text in photo reproduced as ALT text.) Suspicion of scientist and objectivism, irreducibility of embodied perspective, lived experience.
I’m really looking forward to reading this book, which arrived in the post for me today. #autism #neurodiversity #occupationaltherapy
January 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I’m really looking forward to reading this book, which arrived in the post for me today. #autism #neurodiversity #occupationaltherapy
I’m trying to write a one-page, at-a-glance explainer on motivation for a school teacher, it’s very much a first draft but am trying to use MOHO and to demystify the jargony sounding “personal causation”! Any tips from anyone reading this welcome! 🙂
January 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I’m trying to write a one-page, at-a-glance explainer on motivation for a school teacher, it’s very much a first draft but am trying to use MOHO and to demystify the jargony sounding “personal causation”! Any tips from anyone reading this welcome! 🙂
Very much a work in progress, this. Neurophobic red flags.
December 18, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Very much a work in progress, this. Neurophobic red flags.
Beware of fake neuroaffirmativity. Here is exhibit oh I don’t know probably zed at this point.
December 18, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Beware of fake neuroaffirmativity. Here is exhibit oh I don’t know probably zed at this point.