This is an incomplete & not simple guide on how to facilitate lasting change in people (others or yourself):

1. Accept them for who they are.
(This includes accepting that you might not be able to change them)
2. Find out why they are like that and connect with their story and values.
3. Find their individual incentive to make the change.

You'll always need sub- and additional steps, but these three steps are imo universial and essential.
Step one is the hardest and most important. If you can't accept the person right now, even if it's yourself, practice with someone easier to accept first.

Your abilities and your productivity have nothing to do with your worth as a person.

#acceptance : a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence

- French: acceptation

- German: die Abnahme, die Übernahme, die Annahme

- Italian: accettazione

- Portuguese: aceitação

- Spanish: aceptación

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

12:06am Acceptance by Billy Childs from Acceptance
#BillyChilds #Acceptance #JazzNetwork #KUVO

Treatment: I am proud to have found ways to keep myself warm in the dark.
Thank you for the company.

Having you here, to share the darkness, and these cave paintings with, means more than I can say.

Happy disability pride month.

https://www.illmarks.com/treatment-keeping-myself-warm-in-the-dark/

Review into over-representation of First Nations people in ACT justice system makes almost 100 recommendations https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-31/act-indigenous-justice-system-over-representation-review/105593062

On the K-Mart change room door.

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: It’s not denial. I’m just very selective about the reality I accept.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-09-28)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4110/

Married couples still excluded under #Japan's #transgender law https://japantoday.com/category/national/feature-married-couples-still-excluded-under-japan%27s-transgender-law

#Japan's Act on Special Cases in Handling Gender Status for Persons with Gender Identity Disorder required that people changing their gender be at least 18 years old, unmarried, without minor children, sterile, & have genitalia resembling those of the target gender.

Aiming for A "Good Day" Is Too Much Pressure

https://youtu.be/vXFpRswS0wY?si=X91bY3ChKaGVFOMt

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God’s sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

What's Next After Adult Autism Identification?

https://youtu.be/9LBW4gDVZDw?si=yqW3Uw0uWoldvqEI

These stickers have been popping up in toilets around my area.

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

When the torrent sweeps the man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. Shelley, chafing at the Church of England, discovered the cure of all evils in universal atheism. Generous lads irritated at the injustices of society, see nothing for it but the abolishment of everything and Kingdom Come of anarchy. Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries. But it is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

I shared a bit about my autism story in AWG Shares magazine. Read for free here:

https://autisticwomensgroup.com/issue-3-july-15-2025#kpg_263799