Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. "Language is never neutral."
Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire's education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.
Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.
Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed".
In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the "banking method" of education, wherein a teacher "deposits" knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or "bank". Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.
"Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination."
Paulo Freire
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The idea of ongoing conversations is so exciting. I'd love to be a part of a conversation that continues someday
It can be a lot but it's worth it.
Idk. I'm super hung up on past experiences. I feel like I'm stuck in spectator mode in my daily life until someone expresses interest. I don't see a point in reaching out when I don't know what to talk about, or if the person on the receiving end isn't interested.
Like those text threads where you keep messaging and the person just says "haha yeah" "oh well you know" but never explicitly tells you they aren't interested. But you feel their vibe, and even though you text, the responses get further and further apart. I kinda think that's evil..? and don't want to be in a situation where I get ghosted.
I used to be mildly better at small talk, and got really overwhelmed by big thoughts in my head. I reached a point where I didn't feel like I could make small talk, because the existential stuff is completely jamming the pipeline. Unfortunately, I think I've been waiting for a follow-up that isn't coming.
I don't really "feel their vibe" but I can tell that they're neurotypicals and disengaged from the conversation, probably because they are losers and deserve to burn. Small talk sucks.
wowee, your post made me feel things, sorry if this is too many words
100%. once they express that interest though, i am an actual fire hose. i will wrote a novel. i will not be able to stop myself. i will apologize profusely for talking a lot. while being unable to stop.
i've lurked here for a year. on a chance, i made a post, and some very very very sweet people engaged with it, and so ... i'm giving the Wired another try. but I struggle with this too. I worry so so so much about whether someone is even interested in what I'm saying. This fear is so loud sometimes that it even crowds out the very real actual signals they are giving me. Talking to autistic people helps too. My dad and I will go for hours a week, even if he does make it a bit weird sometimes and goes TMI (normally I do not have a barrier. But I do not want to hear about s3x from my dad.)
I struggle with this too.
First, I totally agree. I can 100% see through boilerplate responses like "haha yeah." I notice that (uh, most of the time I think). Sometimes I used to ignore it anyway because I am obnoxious. People didn't really like that. At work, I have reined in the Public Speaker Banging Lectern overshares because like only a couple of the people I work with are ND lol (and one of them is a turbolib copyright worshipper yuck), but sometimes people intentionally try to persuade me into talking excitedly about a thing and I go "well okay <100km/h speaking about some dumb shit that i am fixated on>"). One of my coworkers loves it when I rant about anime or video games or Linux and has learned exactly how to prompt me to get talking lol
Second, "you feel their vibe" i'm wondering if you mean this literally? If you can feel mine, I wonder what you would call it? (don't say manic lmao)
Second Second, I want to solve this so bad. Life gets in the way sometimes and so I find myself spacing my responses out too
, I think that's probably different than what you meant, though. If someone I trust is doing that to me, it doesn't really bother me, I know they'll get back to it when they have the time and mental energy, and I will try to do the same. Then again, I barely have any NT friends lol (ok I barely have any friends tbh). I hope that if people find me overwhelming, they will respect me enough to not ghost me. I want to hang with the most direct, honest people there are. Maybe they'll rub off on me too.
Sometimes I wonder if someone missed my post, too. Like maybe they didn't refresh, and clicked away or there was some bug. I've never felt comfortable enough to ask someone explicitly to respond to something I've written, but honestly I really like when people are direct when they wanted me to interact with them or read something they write, and I would 100% love it if they were even a bit annoying (by NT standards), I would find that extremely endearing (although I am but one person, and can only do so much)! I enjoy the long back-and-forths too, and I would feel awful if someone was sad because I missed their post. This probably varies person to person though.
When I was young, I had tons of online friends. I never played through entire chess matches of social norms in my head about every comment I make, the timing, the pacing, the length. I am working on getting back to that freedom I used to have to exist authentically in an online space.
Damn, I feel you. It's Iceberg City over here for me, that's just how I am. "You think I'm done? I'm not done, let's go a layer deeper." Small talk sucks, I want to talk about things that interest me (interestingly, the weather kinda interests me lol)!! "Let me rant about video games, o-or autism, or some story I liked!!" And, I feel you about "jamming the pipeline." We have needs, unfortunately at can be difficult to find people who respect that.
fuck, I feel this. i have felt this so so much in my life. having so much to say, but no one to listen enough because I have so many thoughts. writing big things, and having nobody read them.
btw: I really appreciated your Covid pods post, I meant to respond, but, you know, work :( and I couldn't find the right words either. I hope you find your pod group, and that they let you talk as much as you'd like to.
(it is okay for your immediate reaction to this post to be shock, I am shocked at how much I wrote on this)