@garethsouthwell Ahh, this is great! Thank you -- I certainly will share. Love that it's anti-AI.

The shift to LLMs was pretty devastating indeed.

@Oscii

Oh, I'm so sorry -- that is tricky. One thing that I've found interesting and beneficial is Internal Family Systems/parts work. Very briefly, the idea is that we all have internal parts that want to help us, but sometimes they work against us. For example, anxious parts may be trying to protect us, and once we show them they don't have to fill that role anymore, they can relax. Of course, parts work should be done with a knowledgeable practitioner, and it may not work for everyone, but it could be one option worth checking out.

The book No Bad Parts by Richard C. Schwartz describes it, though I think it's more beneficial to have it explained/demonstrated before reading the book.

@KatyElphinstone

@garethsouthwell Ah, yes, they don't consider editing and proofreading to be separate tasks, and I end up filling multiple roles for the same job (even though I'm no proofreader, either, and don't like proofreading).

I'm in Lithuania, and I think it's similar throughout the Baltics and probably beyond. So I've done everything from creating style guides/making significant style decisions to substantive/developmental editing to copy editing to layout checking. One thing I will not do is "check" end notes/footnotes.

But the freelance work is drying up -- for my translator colleagues, too. So generally, we take what we can get and do what we're asked.

@garethsouthwell Interesting and beautiful. I do English-language editing typically for translated work, and the culture in my country of residence is that the language editor also checks PDF layouts. I've told clients before that doing so is not a part of my skill set, but your illustration only drives the point home.

@KatyElphinstone I think neurodivergent people are often gaslighted. They may be pointing out red flags, and everyone is telling them that they're imagining things or what they're experiencing is "normal."

Especially if it's something that would go undetected by someone with different brain wiring -- someone who doesn't notice patterns or detect signs as sensitively.

Even if they feel a situation isn't right, other people continue to tell them that it's fine, and they believe it because everything they've done or said has always been considered "wrong" by others.

@3TomatoesShort I love them, too

@Krazov Silence is the way to go

Just saw a toot boosted to my feed that said, "A quiet person is either planning success or in unthinkable pain. Silence doesn’t mean nothing—it means everything."

This kind of either/or thinking is one reason "quiet" people (people who do not conform in an extroverted society) are alienated and even considered suspect by some people.

Quiet people may be:
*Just observing situations or the environment
*Listening for something in particular
*Wrapped up in their own (non-success-related/non-pain-related) thoughts
* Not paying attention to you
* Tired -- and tired of all humanity's collective noise
* Uninterested
* Unwilling to participate because of tone, energy, or something else
* Non-speaking for whatever reason
* Deaf
* Neurodivergent
* In a state of absolute calm that does not require outward expression
* In the wrong group, and they know it
* Giving up because they've tried to speak too many times and were ignored or interrupted

The list goes on. Quiet people are quiet because of diverse reasons. And they contain multitudes, just like everyone else.

We don't have to be shouting all of the time, nor even talking all of the time, nor even making noise in another way all of the time to neither be plotting something nor in the depths of despair.

And I leave you with Neruda's poem, "Keeping Quiet."
https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=2298