About Gitau's Giftlist Gift List

Hi, my name is Gitau but I mostly go by Tau for short. I am an artist, whose current favourite medium is paper and fabric specifically to make zines. I dream of a world where our productivity is not determinant of our worthiness of access to safety, our needs and our desires, and the world being set up like that now puts neurodivergent, trans and queer bodies essentially predisposed to death because being oneself, fully, goes against the expectations one must meet to deserve bare minimum access. I currently make work centred around releasing ourselves from those expectations even in the littlest of ways. I have worked in theatre and film for a while but only recently got to try out being the sound guy on set. [This is a segue into my special gift] I am neurodivergent with a fun cocktail of adhd, autism and ocd. This looks like having alot of auditory processing issues, the worst of which being that I hear my mouth and body from inside my head so loudly sometimes and it really affects my quality of life, and I have moments when I can't tell when I'm shouting or whispering which affects people around me[specifically my other neurodivergent friends]. On a more positive note, singing is my most comforting vocal stim and trying out operating a boom mic connected to the handheld recorder and headphones was probably one of the best things to happen to me in my adult life! The headphones cancel out external noise!, and I also can't hear my own body sounds from inside!, and I can hear myself sing!, and record music!, and having constant access to that would greatly improve my quality of life[and make me really happy]. That's me:)