OggCamp 2024
12 - 13 Oct 2024
at The Manchester Conference Centre
Talk comments
This was an excellent talk! Thank you!
Unfortunately a bit short which made it hard to fully get involved. Would have been good to see how this would work in a school more than just saying "this is what I do" and doing it.
Parul's talk was incredible - her humour and reflection on her experiences of life as a neurodivergent person, through the lense of "what if neurotypicals were the weird ones" was really quite powerful.
I spent the talk very eagerly nodding along and laughing - a little distractedly - at her incredibly relatable take on the role reversal, and bangers like "Norman received feedback [that his colleagues felt weird about him because] he couldn't fidget".
I'm biased as someone who is neurodivergent myself, so related much more heavily to the talk, but feel that non-neurodivergent people in the audience could also understand the parallels.
I was very strongly reminded - in a great way - of Rachel Morgan-Trimmer's talk from OggCamp 2019 (https://joind.in/event/oggcamp-19/the-power-of-change---learning-to-live-as-a-weirdo) which was also a really powerful insight into life as a neurodivergent person, and I really enjoyed Parul's empathy-driven talk.
I especially loved the ending call to action, asking us all to consider what steps we could take to understand others in our life better.
My only complaint was that I wish the talk was recorded!
Ken, Great talk. Thanks
Very interesting and relatable.
This is amazing! Thanks!
Clever stuff, with added sparkly jacket!
An excellent talk, thank you!
Really good film. Kept Charlie enthralled!
A really useful intro to this laptop for me, much appreciated by the fact that the presenter has been using it as their "daily driver". A packed out room showed the level of interest in this.