Naming things is hard. Generally just having a designated quiet room
where people can go and... have quiet is generally quite useful, though.
For all sorts of purposes.
On 15/08/18 17:01, Paulo Santos Perneta wrote:
I hope it wasn't called "introversion
room"... That sounds awful. :|
Paulo
Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il
<mailto:amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>> escreveu no dia quarta,
15/08/2018 à(s) 17:44:
Thank you for sharing this, Romaine.
Our experiences are so different, and we should acknowledge it and
cherish
it, and we need to respect all people and accommodate all people.
My experience is related and opposite at the same time. I
sometimes tell
people that Wikimania is my social life. It's an exaggeration; it's
Wikimania and other Wikimedia-related events: hackathons,
workshops, local
meetups. But that's really about it. The Wikimedia community is my
social
life. Events other than Wikimedia events —weddings, holidays,
parties, you
name it— can easily cause me to feel out of place and to experience
feelings described in this thread.
Wikimania is where I feel completely at home. But if it's not a
place where
others can feel at home, it's a problem.
I remember one Wikimedia event that had an "introversion room". I
remember
how some people cheered when the event organizer mentioned it in her
welcome speech. We need more of that: not only "introversion
rooms" (even
though they are welcome), but anything that makes people feel welcome.
We need more of this consideration and inclusion not just because
it's the
right and decent human thing to do. We need it because it's our
expressed
goal to include every single human being. Who if not us?
בתאריך יום ד׳, 15 באוג׳ 2018, 18:42, מאת Romaine Wiki <
romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com <mailto:romaine.wiki@gmail.com>>:
Hi everyone,
In our movement we have a lot of different people, including
people with a
different neurodiversity.
Then it can happen that with events organised by the Wikimedia
movement,
there are people that get sensory overloads. it
basically means
that the
input through the senses gets too much at some
point. This can
result in an
emotional outburst, an instant heavy
headache/migraine attack,
or in my
case I go (almost) completely blank.
It is really hard to complain how it is like to people who have no
experiences with it.
I think however that we need as inclusive movement to be more
aware of the
huge amount of varieties of people and there
needs. For that
reason I like
to share a thread on Twitter with you how a user
I know well has
experienced it herself.
Read at:
https://twitter.com/dodocurieux/status/1029743772584865792
Thank you!
Romaine
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