URL: https://monotropism.org/dinah/speech-language-and-power/
Just getting halfway through, what I think, is a chapter of Dinah Murray's book, (link: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Critical-Autism-Studies/Milton-Ryan/p/book/9780367521011?srsltid=AfmBOooXnRbE4d0iVQh2BOgH4r8y5BEwepAs1PxvsklF37ZukoPZid3N text: The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Autism Studies).
It's a beautiful piece that I want to print out and highlight, there are so many interesting takeaways and learnings.
Here's the fifth paragraph:
Physically the force of speech is expelled, moist, processed air, travelling out of one person’s body and expanding and diluting, plus sound waves that have order and meaning they retain as they travel, which endure after the sounds have stopped and the waves dissipated. The written word harnesses other physical forces as it comes into being, is stable and lasts longer, and is much more detached from the particular moment it is encountered. These differences are sometimes highly significant, but for now, the key commonality of relying on a shared language will be the focus and I will use saying and speaking to refer to both spoken and written words unless I ‘say’ otherwise.
A quote, quotingly defining the word autotelic from Csikszentmihalyi (1990):
An autotelic person needs few material possessions and little entertainment, comfort, power, or fame because so much of what he or she does is already rewarding….., They are more autonomous and independent because they cannot be as easily manipulated with threats or rewards from the outside. At the same time, they are more involved with everything around them because they are fully immersed in the current of life
Related to my post on Thinking, speeds and processes
The energetic flow of processing resource goes where the boundaries and branches and gradients take it. Those can be thought of as the accessibility cascades Kahneman (2011) ascribes to his ‘System 1’. He sees those as the ‘quick and dirty’ background to more rational thought in the more conscious and time consuming ‘System 2’ which enables reflection and considered evaluation – yet also potentiates fantasy and self-delusion.
Will be getting back to reading this another time. But I left off at this point.