Sonny Hallett

@scrappapertiger

Therapist, supervisor, trainer & consultant. Autistic, trans, mixed race. Woodland creature. They/them

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Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· 21d

Garden grass-veneer. I get like a bajillion of these tiny moths every time I put out the moth box. I always enjoy looking at them super close up though - the slightly startled-looking eyes, the little fairy snoot that waves about… #NationalMothWeek

A common grass-veneer moth sitting on my hand. It’s got thin antennae that are swooped back. Its wings are folded and sort of brown, with lighter brown longs running down then. It’s large eye (the only one visible in this angle) looks blueish with what looks like a little black pupil, giving it an overwhelmed expression. It’s also got a long hairy snout.

A common grass-veneer mothl it’s wings are folded and sort of brown, with lighter brown longs running down then. Its large eye (the only one visible in this angle) looks blueish with what looks like a little black pupil, giving it an overwhelmed expression. It’s also got a long hairy snout.

A common grass-veneer moth. It’s got thin antennae that are swooped back. Its wings are folded and sort of brown, with lighter brown longs running down then. Its large eye (the only one visible in this angle) looks blueish with what looks like a little black pupil, giving it an overwhelmed expression. It’s also got a long hairy snout.

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· 21d

Yellow tail. Probably one of my favourites so far. It kept flying off to stare through a glass door into the building I was at, until I had to take out somewhere with more foliage so it wouldn’t get accidentally squished by through-traffic #NationalMothWeek

Front view of a yellow tail moth. Bright white, extremely hairy, huge rabbit-ear like antennae with yellow fronds. Very hairy legs are splayed out and it looks like it’s staring down between its front feet all the time

Underside view of a yellow tail moth, looking through glass. Bright white, extremely hairy, huge rabbit-ear like antennae with yellow fronds. Very hairy legs are splayed out and it looks like it’s staring down between its front feet out through the glass with huge black eyes. From this angle the wings are fringed with a black line and the tail tip is bright golden yellow.

Top/side view of a yellow tail moth. Bright white, extremely hairy, white wings with a few small black spots. Very hairy legs are splayed out and it looks like it’s staring down between its front feet all the time

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· 21d

Peppered moth - famous for being a demonstration of natural selection during the Industrial Revolution, when peppered moths in polluted towns and cities increasingly became black for better camouflage, while countryside moths remained white with black spots. #NationalMothWeek

Front view of a peppered moth sitting on my thumb. It has large feather-like antenna, a very hairy face and body made up of white hairs with black patches. Its legs and wings are also white with black peppery spots. It has big black eyes and a little grey face.

Top view of a peppered moth sitting on my hand. Its wings and abdomen are white with many peppery black patches and spots.

Side view of a peppered moth sitting on my thumb. It has large feather-like antenna, a very hairy face and body made up of white hairs with black patches. Its legs and wings are also white with black peppery spots. It has big black eyes and a little grey face.

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· 21d

It’s #NationalMothWeek! I’ve been meeting some really really good moths lately with the help of my light box. Here is a thread of them. @mothweek.bsky.social Buff ermine

Front view of a buff ermine moth standing on my knuckle, feathery antenna aloft. It has a very hairy cream coloured mane and yellowy-cream wings, black and yellow legs, and big black eyes.

Side view of a buff ermine moth standing on my knuckle, feathery antenna aloft. It has a very hairy cream coloured mane and yellowy-cream wings, black and yellow legs, and big black eyes. There’s black spots along its large cream coloured abdomen.

Top view of a buff ermine moth standing on my palm, feathery antenna out to either side. It has a very hairy cream coloured mane, yellowy-cream wings with symmetrical black spots, and big black eyes.

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· 21d

@oolong.co.uk and I just fired our first load of ceramics. This morning I took out of the kiln one of my favourite things I think I’ve made: a dragon for our pond. We also set up a new insta for things we make: www.instagram.com/fernycrafts

A curved red terracotta tile hooked over the edge of a pond. The tile has a white fossil sgraffito design at the bottom, and blue-green glaze at the top. On top of the tile is a small terracotta house, surrounded protectively by a glazed green dragon. Duckweed is visible in the water below the tile.

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Jun 9

I’m not sure if this is accurate for NHS at all but my mental image of easy chew food is puréed stuff presented like this:

Photo from Google image search of a plate with pureed foods of different colours, piped to look like a carrot, a long green stick, and some white and brown blobs

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· May 12

Enjoying new podcast What to Carry, What to Burn. This first two-parter is about Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiaq woman who accompanied an Arctic exhibition, and her survival on Wrangel Island. It’s really well told by @blairbraverman.bsky.social & Sarah Marshall of @yourewrongabout.bsky.social 1/2

Black and white photograph of Ada Blackjack

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Mar 26

What do you mean I’ve been playing too much Pokopia this is a perfectly normal sketch of @fergus.oolong.co.uk in a cafe

Ink sketch of Fergus at a table with a coffee, a cinnamon roll, and a bottle of water. They’re looking up from their phone and their face looks like a ditto’s - with dot eyes and a big wobbly mouth.

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Mar 22

I’ve added to it!

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Mar 22

Also I like when I load my game and wake up to this:

The protagonist ditto-shaped-like-a-human wakes up on a couch in their house. Right in the foreground a cramorant (cormorant like pokemon) is staring directly out of the screen

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Mar 21

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Mar 21

Our protagonist ditto relaxes in an azumarill themed bath tub

Ditto in human-ish form sits on a pikachu sofa in the middle of a town with construction happening in the background

Upstairs in my house, with patterned bedspread, many bookshelves, plants, and a slowpoke rug

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Mar 21

I’ve been playing a lot of #Pokopia lately. It’s excellent & very hard to put down (think Minecraft + Animal Crossing set in a Pokemon world where humans have disappeared and all traces of humanity lie in ruin) Here are some highlights (no story spoilers but shows a couple of abilities you can get)

Glimmet, a toxic cave plant pokemon, says “I am cute. It is the truth. But you should not touch me.”

Volbeat, a bug pokemon with an admittedly shiny butt says “And it’s a pretty nice butt, don’t you think? So shiny!”

At a small construction site, magikarp flops about going “happy to help!”

Machoke asks what’s on my mind, “it’s gotta be…muscles! Am I right?”
My dialogue choice: “I’m thinkin’ about bread”

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Nov 23

Finally home from Glasgow after four long days of conferencing at the PCE Europe Symposium. So tired no more words. It’s been a lot. I did these doodles while listening to talks:

A tiny square concertina-style sketchbook, opened out next to the ink pen I used. The long strip of paper is covered in pen line drawings of animals, plants, mushrooms, etc.

A tiny square concertina-style sketchbook, opened out next to the ink pen I used. This is the reverse side to the previous image. The paper strip on this side is shown vertically, with pen and ink drawings of outer space with planets, stars, a satellite and a space while, fading down into clouds and sky with birds, waves, the sea and fish, a hammerhead shark, and deep ocean with a whale, a gulper eel and an angler fish.

A conference lanyard and badge. The badge has my name Sonny Hallett on it and my pronouns, they/them. Surrounding that is loads of ink doodles of animals and plants, including a tapir, a bat, a dolphin, butterfly, lemur, owl…

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Nov 20

A sunny day to be travelling through to Glasgow! Feeling nervously excited for my keynote at the PCE Europe symposium this afternoon. My talk is titled: Be yourself. No, not like that - Normativity in therapy training and its impact on all of us. More info: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/p...

Me - selfie of a brown haired human with mixed Asian and European features and glasses, smiling at the camera as the sun shines through a coach window. They are wearing a hand knitted rainbow jumper and rainbow coloured shirt.

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Nov 13

A morning blep to all who celebrate

A small black and white schnauzer and westie cross terrier, lying on a white faux wool blanket, partly rolling over to expose her chest for rubbing. She’s looking up at a human out of frame (apart from a hand), and her tongue is sticking out in a tiny blep.

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Nov 6

I have a chapter in a book! I feel really excited and honoured to be alongside a whole bunch of great chapters and authors writing on the Person Centred Approach. Ebook also available. You can get a 20% discount until the end of December using code 25ESA3 www.routledge.com/Applying-the...

Kifl the small terrier sitting with the book Applying the Person-Centred Approach to Global, Social and Personal Crises in front of her

First page of my chapter: 6. Neurodiversity and the Person-Centred Approach: Am I doing this right?
Sonny Hallett
“My counsellor and I meet out in the woods every week; we walk and sit on mats on the ground, notice the changing seasons in the plants, fungi and wildlife, talk or walk in silence. This time I’ve asked him to show me how to make a fire without a lighter. He shows me how to use the striker against the kindling, bundling twigs and strips of cloth along with a piece of King Alfred’s cake, a fungus that burns very slowly. He passes the pieces over to me. ‘Just have a play with it’.

I feel a familiar anxious turning-over in my stomach as I fumble the handful. I’m used to being uncoordinated, misunderstanding instructions. I often try to study how to do something on my own and practice obsessively before I let anyone watch me. It feels newly bold of me to ask someone to show me something when I haven't prepared by trying to study on my own. By practicing a skill alone, I can get a feel for it, make mistakes, and try things out. I find that there is something very soothing and satisfying about this, but the process of being observed in learning and exploring can feel very vulnerable.

I realised I am autistic almost ten years ago, when in my late twenties, though I always felt that something was different. Academically I did okay because I could go away and study alone, carefully and intensively, making the most of my tendency and ability to be sucked monotropically1 into intense interests and passions. I also did okay with art because I spent a lot of time drawing on my own, when I was anxious or to express and process my feelings. Over time I got a lot of positive encouragement so I mostly felt confident to be seen making art. But with sports, music, learning another language or anything that required practice with other people, I felt dread. Everyone got things wrong, but I seemed to get things wrong in weird ways - somehow I felt I was even getting it…”

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Aug 16

Another photo because the video quality was terrible

Wasp clinging to outside of train window as greenery rushes past

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Aug 16

On a trip to Denmark, saw this wasp outside the train window as the train picked up speed. It held on for an impressively long time before being flung off. Those little antenna 🥺 I hope it’s ok

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Aug 11

Visited the Lego House recently and can’t stop thinking about this early Lego product

A large wooden toy - body shaped like a black bird, wearing brown boots, head shaped like a bald man with glasses, moustache and a reddish nose

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Jul 9

Came home exhausted, flopped on sofa, but:

Small dog pawing at my leg insistently on the sofa as I try to rest

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Jun 30

Just look at her though (We really ought to post some photos of her that are not on this sofa from time to time…)

Small dog lounging cutely on her back on a blue sofa

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Jun 30

Hrnf.

Kifl the the terrier, since her haircut she has even more splendid moustaches and eyebrows. Here her head is tucked against the side of my thigh on the sofa, one ear resting on my leg.

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Jun 21

Kifl listening to speakers at @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social Pride in Our Community

Photo of Kifl the terrier, wearing a rainbow bandana, lying in the grass, looking up, people with pride flags in the background

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Jun 16

Thank you yesterday’s me. This is the kind of reminder I like to see as I’m waking up in the morning 🥰

A notification from the reminders app on my phone, at 8.30 this morning, with the text “Pastry in raincoat pocket”

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Jun 9

@fergus.oolong.co.uk made Kifl kipferl 🥰

An Austrian kipferl-style shortbread biscuit shaped like our terrier Kifl, dusted with icing sugar on a cherry blossom saucer. A green mug of black coffee sits next to it on a wooden table.

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· Jun 3

The important thing, I think, is questioning sameness and normative ideas, why some ways of practicing feel reassuring, while others feel worrisome - whether those feelings come from a helpful place or one that is a reaction to difference: medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

“When everything is a monoculture, diversity can look scary, wild, out of control. It’s understandable, but it’s unsustainable. To reconnect with diversity, we need to expand and rewild our thinking, and change our practices on a fundamental level. We need to notice and challenge the things that we take for granted.”

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· May 28

I’ve been quiet on the crochet and weaving front because I’ve been mostly crocheting things in secret. Now I can finally reveal the dragon I made for @fergus.oolong.co.uk ‘s birthday! It’s wired and fully poseable and very goofy 😁

An Asian-style long dragon with four feet, crocheted from different shades of green, yellow, and orange yarn. It has big bulgy eyes, lots of teeth, whiskers, and coral-like horns. And a pompom tail.

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· May 21

Now my left foot is a bit squished and I have to move soon for work but 🥹

My dog is still between my feet but has now rolled slightly on to my left foot. She has more weight on my toes than may be obvious from the photo

Sonny Hallett@scrappapertiger· May 21

Snuggle