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In particular I’m interested in portrayals of intellectual disability more than physical, but open to all suggestions!

Why I’m asking: I have a new baby family member who was born with Down syndrome and a heart defect. Part of how I understand the world is through literature. I would like to feel I understand HER place in the world as well. I do expect not all representation in classic literature will be forward-thinking or equal to current support for people with disabilities, but I’d be thrilled to find some new works I haven’t come across.

TIA

I’ve attended three baby showers in the last year for three people completely unrelated and not in the same social circles and their baby registries have the most eye-popping expensive items.

High chairs are minimum $250. One had a stroller for $750. 😳 Baby swings and bouncers for $200. One had a whole solid wood crib for $1000 on their registry.

I checked because I was curious and you still can buy a $40-50 Greco high chair from Walmart.

Everything is aesthetic and clean lines and beige and natural wood—beautiful, really. I can’t imagine asking for that high-end an item for a GIFT.

These aren’t rich people and they aren’t inviting rich people to the baby shower.

I’m almost 50 and have kids of my own and a gaggle of nieces and nephews. My family members and I got buy sharing those cheaper high chairs and strollers and cribs. I understand needing them initially if you don’t have any source for hand-me-downs, but asking for the highest price bespoke options is absolutely wild.

Are people that brainwashed into thinking they should be buying ultra-high-end items regardless of income??

Just a quick vent.

I’m almost 50. I have 20 years experience in my field.

When my boss needs me to do something, instead of saying “can you re-organize that column of values this way”, he stands behind me and tells me what cell or row to click and where to paste it. He does not communicate this way to a young, male just-out-of-college colleague he interacts with as often as me.

Click by click instead of stringing a few words together into coherent communication.

I think I’m actually losing my mind. I’m better at excel than he is and I often have to help him. I suspect this is my punishment for knowing more.

At some point I’m going to be blunt and tell him to stop telling me where to click. It’s so insulting and frustrating.

Anyway. I wish I worked with more women.

How do you get information/l and verification of content from SMEs who are poorly engaged, skim content reviews, don’t reply to emails, give final approval too easily, etc.

I work in a manufacturing environment. I recently spend a year doing a deep review and update of one of our main product manuals. Sixty pages and highly technical. I got it approved through our mechanical engineering department and published in January.

We just got customer feedback that a critical measurement is wrong. While looking into that another segment of instruction was identified as missing.

This will cost us considerable time and money to correct. I don’t like how it reflects on my effectiveness.

These aren’t things I can verify on my own without getting the information from our engineers.

Im thinking of requiring a review from a customer who may be willing to support us and also making the approval process much more formal—signatures and explicit endorsement of the material.

Anyone else struggle with this and find a better solution?