Movie Review: Chocolate (2011/12/08)
Chocolate is a Thai film about an autistic girl. It’s a martial arts movie; the premise is that this particular autistic girl can imitate martial arts moves that she’s seen.
[read more...]Autism and diagnostics (2011/12/05)
Apparently I have asthma. No, not adult-onset asthma. The thing where, if I run or breathe cold air, I have horrible coughing fits? Asthma.
[read more...]I want my spoons back. (2011/11/22)
(Spoons, you ask? Yes, spoons.)
[read more...]Goblins ate us. (2011/10/31)
So, I’m autistic. My spouse is autistic. Our housemate is autistic. And this means that sometimes, all three of us are socialed out and cannot handle social interactions. Least of all social interactions with strangers, which are not on a clearly defined schedule.
[read more...]You don't look sick (2011/09/20)
So, my spouse got diagnosed with autism recently, which explains one of our recurring problems: I’m the only one who can usually handle talking to strangers on the phone.
[read more...]Aspie twin powers, ACTIVATE! (2011/08/23)
Turns out that, yes, Beloved Spouse is autistic. We had been suspicious on and off, but had been thrown because most autistic people do not find other peoples’ emotional states overwhelming… But apparently some do.
[read more...]It made sense at the time. (2011/08/22)
Today, I bought a six-pack of fluorescent highlighters.
[read more...]Some of my best friends are crazy. (2011/08/10)
No, I don’t mean eccentric. I don’t mean “differently abled”. No, I mean crazy. This is a distinction I learned about a long time ago, when a nice man in a wheelchair explained it quite succinctly:
[read more...]Gifted child syndrome (2011/08/09)
A lot of “gifted” kids end up pretty messed up. There’s a lot of reasons for this, but one of them sorta came into focus for me recently. A friend refers to it as “the entity theory of intelligence”.
[read more...]So you think I'm wrong...? (2011/06/04)
Okay, this keeps coming up. People think other people are wrong. Then… they do things that cannot possibly help.
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