Disabled people in leadership roles? The dream of a cynical optimist

Hello dear future historians and contemporary readers

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Hello, I am Lotous. A disabled actor, writer, and (soon) filmmaker.

In.Difference Backstage

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My Kent Uni autism orientation day

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Thoughts on Productivity and Neurodiversity

Mephistophelian Commodities and Pathological Demand Avoidance:

Ποιηματάκι (my very ancient Greek history :-p)

Διαβάζω πριν χρόνια

Αυτά που 'χω γράψει

Στην ίδια κρυψώνα

Δεν έχω αλλάξει

 

ΟΝΕΙΡΟΠΟΛΗΣΗ Vs ΟΡΑΜΑΤΙΣΜΟΣ (my very ancient Greek history :-p)

Καλοκαίρι 2007 στον Αρμενιστή. Εγώ δουλεύω στο market του camping. Έχω ρεπό και σε λίγο θα πάμε στην παραλία. 

Psychohistory thoughts summer 2024

 In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, the Empire’s collapse is related to the decline of high-level education. Hari Seldon is one of the last experimental scientists. The generations after that had some basic training, but not

I had no words for what I am

There was no words that I knew for what I am when I was growing up. 

I grew up in the 80s in Greece. My mother was attending a Christian cult.

I knew gay people exist. But bisexual wasn't in any vocabulary I had heard.

I knew autistic people with learning disabilities exist. I didn't know I was autistic.

I was just confused.

Me, late 80s

Dissidents-Tube (short story)

 ‘Hello, Orlando. Please, confirm your DOB and your postcode, then sign here, before we can proceed.’ The 43Bot moved closer, stretched out its arm, and put a tablet right under their nose . Orlando had never seen such an old model before. Beep, pause, beep-beep.

‘Make it stop. Please, make it stop,’ Orlando said, hands pressed against their temples.

‘You are late for the interpersonal therapy meeting, and the one-to-one daily evaluation.’ Beep, pause, beep-beep.

‘Inter-what? I won’t sign anything before you stop that mental sound.’

The last thing they remembered was falling on the station’s pavement, while chasing the train. Beep, pause, beep-beep. A thought. T he marks on my leg! Orlando got flashbacks. One at a hospital, during an X-ray, and one in a dark room without any windows, and many beds around. They remembered trying to scratch their nose. They remembered their hands being tied up.

‘Female, 33 years old, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, fibromyalgia, ADHD, OCD, and PDA.’ Its voice was glitching a bit.

Thus spoke Lotous

 “Someone

somewhere, at

some point... opened a book. And

 as s/he turned, or

              scrolled, in the first

page, imagined... and

              created

                                  a book

                                  a story

                                  an entire Universe. And, the

page wrote:”

One

Once upon a time, Just a bit before the BigBang, the One felt the desire to become many. Thus, everything began.

Μια φορα κι ενα καιρο, λίγο πριν το Big Bang, το Ενα ενοιωσε την "Επιθυμια" να γίνει "πολλά" . Κι έτσι άρχησαν όλα.

'Kinder' stage play

By Lotous Michalopoulou 

Cast of Characters:

Daphne: Neurodiverse mature student (Me), early forties

Muse: Daphne’s Alter ego, uses her voice, invisible to other characters.

Thea: Daphne’s Aunt (father’s side), mid-twenties

Zoe: Thea’s girlfriend, mid-twenties, nurse

Olga: Daphne’s older half-sister (mum’s side), late fifties, director and producer of documentaries in Greek National TV

Katie: early forties, Support worker from a theatre group for disabled people that Daphne is attending.

Preferred stage: Proscenium arch stage