#UGANDAN NEWS

[kenyagist]

Latest News in Uganda: Breaking Headlines and Updates from Kampala

Stay informed about the latest happenings in Uganda with our comprehensive coverage of breaking news, travel updates, and today’s headlines. From political developments to travel insights, we bring you real-time information about Uganda’s vibrant capital city, Kampala, and beyond. Discover the most recent stories, stay up-to-date with current affairs, and delve into the heart of Ugandan news.…

[sleepymccoy]

Hey sleepy! I liked your reply about your job and the questions you need to think about wording. I saw something in your tags and wanted to provide my experience if that's ok? I don't know how valuable it is to share, and it may be the case that you already know or have considered this, so, to be taken or left at will :)

You say you see a lot of autistic people on tumblr having strong negative reactions to normal interactions, which can be a bit confusing. And it's true! They are normal and polite, and to some extent necessary. What I want to say is this : I am autistic, and growing up I struggled a lot with these subtle questions. I did get a lot better at this with practice, and conscious effort - I am 30 years old now, and my interactions are easier to navigate, even if I still regularly run into the same problems I used to. This makes me have complicated interactions with people, but complicated is just part of life, and most people are quite helpful I find.

Where I think the problem still lies for me, and where this anger might be coming from when people complain about this online, is that people quite regularly still get angry or upset with me when I don't answer properly or seem like I don't understand something easy. I mean like colleagues at work, where we range from 30 to 55 years of age.

There is a difference between your work and mine, question wise, I think : my colleagues don't know I'm autistic, while you know your patients have dementia. They think I'm a bit weird (this has been communicated to me lol), but no more. It may be that you simply don't interpret them as rude, because you know they're not trying to be, while people regularly interpret my behavior this way - rude, lazy, stupid, what have you. In my life I am finding people to not always be very patient when I don't follow the expected script. Many people are!! Most people are. And we go back and forth asking more questions to figure out what we're talking about, and sometimes I can feel that they are finding this a bit funny, but it works out in the end. But the angry and upset ones weigh heavy, and when I was a child many more people felt comfortable, I think, being angry with me. It took a lot of time to unlearn that I could get punished for asking follow up or clarifying questions for simple conversations.

I think, in short, that the autistic people you see complain about this have learned to be afraid. If they are young, or surrounded by less patient people, people might be getting angry at them often, or it may be recent in their life that they did get angry.

(It may also be that they have been trying to learn how to navigate these for a while, and it just won't work! It can be very hard to tell what went wrong in a given interaction and it's easy to leave it with the wrong conclusion. Working on this was a very frustrating process. But this is, I think, another subject.)

Thank you for your patience with my many many words, and please have a good day :)

Hey thank you!!

Especially thank you cos I was a bit nervous rambling like that cos I definitely don't want to try and take away from autistic people's experiences, or put myself in a place where I shouldn't be. I fully get that a lot of tumblr stuff is people not looking for solutions and just venting about their life (that's healthy! You need a space for that!) so I don't wanna step in all defensive and explanatory when someone's just had a particularly shit day. I'm very pleased you read it (long as it was) and didn't come away offended ❤️

I expect I do have quite different experiences, one (obviously) because I'm not autistic. The other being I work in a place that pretty much requires abnormal patience to be able to do the job. This job also is hugely culturally diverse and the style of communication in the break room is plain and simple English and trying to reword sentences quickly and blamelessly because confusion is presumed to be a cultural mishmash or struggle with english. There are definitely neurodiverse staff who I work with (some have told me, some just struggle beyond a language barrier) but it isn't much of an issue cos of the culture we've built. This probably puts me on a back foot cos it seems so easy to me to chat to everyone I meet, just by code switching slightly as needed. That's basic politeness

So yeah, if there's fucking adult professionals in the world not approaching colleagues with politeness and generosity, you'll have some bad times. I've had them at prior workplaces, bullies are cunts

There are of course a lot of differences between people living with dementia and autistic people, but I admit I hadn't thought of my awareness of their diagnosis! You're totally right, and being aware of someone's needs does change my behaviour.

I agree with you that it seems like people have learnt to be afraid of conversations. I think that's very sad, cos most conversations are harmless and fun.

The bit I see on tumblr that bothers me most really is the grouping of "all autistics think like this whereas all neurotypicals think like that" which just cannot help anyone actually chat. It's not always as a neurotypical = bad (although that is most often the tone), but I don't like how it removes uniqueness from people. And I think it's more of a situation where people are applying their personal trauma responses to a whole group of people and assuming it's correct cos it's true for them, individually.

Like, I see my staff room with three Nepalese (one of whom is on the spectrum), a Ugandan with brain damage, the most beautiful Ethiopian woman you'll ever see, the country guy with ADHD, and little me and we're all laughing at the same joke and I just am not seeing the neurotypical people in the room with the same cruelty and dismissiveness as what autistic people describe on tumblr

I can fully empathise how hard it is to shake childhood and lifelong damage from insidious stuff like what you're describing. I'm just not sure the tone I see on most autistic-centric posts are working on shaking it, I think they're wallowing. And it bothers me cos it's fucking sad, most people are fantastic!

I'm glad you mentioned that you do enjoy/don't struggle with most conversations you have these days! I also have some dud interactions throughout the week, but that's just personality clashes. Or the occasional racist 🙄. But most of it should be easy or fun, that's why we've culturally built polite interest small talk and referential shorthand jokes to show intimacy without invasiveness.

I guess it's a bit hard for me to hear that my attempts at being cheerful and causal and friendly might cause just stress in someone, and then I'd never know cos they go away to blog about it in anger. But I suppose I should get over that, if someone chooses not to talk to me about how I unknowingly make life difficult for them that's their choice and not my problem until I'm told

Cos I'm not gonna stop being cheerful and friendly just in case i confuse the odd someone, I'll be miserable and I'll feel cruel. But I am very sorry to think this sort of carry on could be unpleasant to anyone. I dunno, no fixes here of course ❤️❤️

[nutelea]

dude: when you look at me sometimes you have this really intense look about you

me, internally: I am heat fixing you to a glass slide with heat vision I am pouring iodine on you and gram staining you like a bacterium

me: really?

dude: yeah. turns me on

[rainbowgod666]

do you ever have one of those days where you wake up as a pokemon? 😔 Mystery Dungeon will always be one of my favorite games, even if the plot doesn’t always make the most sense xD

[untilthenexttee]

Global Golf Box Initiative: A Game-Changing Partnership Empowering Ugandan Youth

Members of Earl Grey Golf Club in Calgary, Alberta Canada (Host of the 2024 CPKC Women’s Open), in partnership with TaylorMade Golf Company, have launched an inspiring initiative to support underprivileged youth golfers at the AFRIYEA Golf Academy in Uganda.  The Global Golf Box Initiative is designed to empower the present and future generation of golfers from underserved communities, providing…

[doubleca5t]

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[mafia1tornado]

Bakwagala Olina, Mafia1Tornado_Audio! 2024

[heritage-harmony-records]

NEW SINGLE OUT NOW!!!

Nkwata Mpola is now available on the HHR YouTube channel. This is the new single from Ugandan afrobeats artist The Carlos Mendy and was released on September 8th. His debut album Feelings will be released on HHR in the future.

[phoneheadedtrans]

"...most politicians, bless them, aren't that cool."

[glassprism]

New photos from the Ugandan production of The Phantom of the Opera! x and x

[trilzmedia]

Swangz Avenue signs singer Elijah Kitaka as first male artist

Swangz Avenue signs singer Elijah Kitaka as first male artist

Singer Elijah Kitaka  has put pen to paper on a long term contract to become the first male artist signed by   Swangz Avenue, the record label has announced. Being one of the top recognised stakeholders in the music industry in the country,  the Industrial Area- based  record label has been able to produce, nature and mentor several brands of talents with high-quality records of music and to…

[rapnationent-africanews]

#ripaka #SouthAfrica

[djedukenya]

Photos Of Ugandan MP Patrick Okabe Of Serere County Who Died In Road Accident With His Wife

Photos Of Ugandan MP Patrick Okabe Of Serere County Who Died In Road Accident With His Wife

Serere County Legislator Patrick Okabe and his wife have perished in a deadly car crash along Tirinyi Road after his vehicle was rammed into by a speeding Fuso truck, registration number KCX 017K from Kenya.  

[untilthenexttee]

"The Pearl of Africa" is Opening its Doors to the Golf World

Visit Uganda Golf Launched Kampala, Uganda -The East African nation affectionately known as the Pearl of Africa is making waves in the world of sports tourism by positioning itself as a premier golf destination. With a collection of 18 golf courses located in some of the country’s most picturesque regions, Uganda is set to become Golf’s Golden Sanctuary, combining stunning natural beauty with…

[makingqueerhistory]

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

Mark Gevisser

More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide--and describe--the world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. No social movement has brought change so quickly and with such dramatically mixed results. While same-sex marriage and gender transition are celebrated in some parts of the world, laws are being strengthened to criminalize homosexuality and gender nonconformity in others. As new globalized queer identities are adopted by people across the world--thanks to the digital revolution--fresh culture wars have emerged. A new Pink Line, Gevisser argues, has been drawn across the globe, and he takes readers to its frontiers. Between sensitive and sometimes startling profiles of the queer folk he's encountered along the Pink Line, Gevisser offers sharp analytical chapters exploring identity politics, religion, gender ideology, capitalism, human rights, moral panics, geopolitics, and what he calls "the new transgender culture wars." His subjects include a Ugandan refugee in flight to Canada, a trans woman fighting for custody of her child in Moscow, a lesbian couple campaigning for marriage equality in Mexico, genderqueer high schoolers coming of age in Michigan, a gay Israeli-Palestinian couple searching for common ground, and a community of kothis--"women's hearts in men's bodies"--who run a temple in an Indian fishing village. What results is a moving and multifaceted picture of the world today, and the queer people defining it.

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