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Validation, recognition, and credentialing

So, I was "the reader" in question which prompted this post from my good friend Laura:

A reader pointed out that in my second assignment, I sort of waved off the question of “What does validation look like?” My protagonist was, to be fair, quite snarky in telling the professor what validation would look like. Thus, I am submitting this brief reflection for extra credit (or for full credit since I lost credit points by being dismissive of the question).

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Being complicit in creating the conditions we say we don’t want

After reading this, I realised that the way I organise my life is a bit like this. Really, it's about boundary-setting with yourself and others.

Sometimes it's about taking things away and setting limits; other times it's about adding something as a different option - for example, my analogue desk gives me a different thing to do in the morning rather than immediately go on a screen.

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