Good days, bad days (2011/06/01)
So, I have my good days and my bad days. This is true of both autism issues and ADHD issues… and they are not on the same cycles. This means that the variance between my good days and my bad days is huge. No, huger than that. I run the range from “I can’t feed myself” to “I just put in six hours and did something that was expected to take three to four weeks”.
[read more...]Autism vs. Poetry (2011/05/31)
I am not great with poetry. Some of this, I think, is from people misexplaining it. See, when you use the phrase “the meaning of the poem”, you communicate, to me anyway, that the poem has exactly one meaning. Which you propose to identify and explain.
[read more...]Am I people? I tend to think so... (2011/05/30)
So, someone wrote recently to thank me for the blog postings, reminding me that I was doing them. My correspondant commented about people seeing the diagnosis, but not seeing that there’s a person in there.
[read more...]Eating candy. FOR SCIENCE (2011/05/29)
Unsorted M&Ms taste the same.
[read more...]I sorta wonder whether I could hold down a job... (2011/05/22)
Yeah, I know. I have one. It works out, they seem happy, I’m happy.
[read more...]An open letter to my psychologist of Way Back When (2011/05/21)
Hello, David. Long time no see. I got to thinking about our conversations some years ago, and something’s bugging me.
[read more...]But what if wire mother let you stay up an hour later? (2011/05/18)
There was some fairly famous (and extremely disturbing) research on non-human primate babies raised by various substitutes for a mother, such as a wire frame shapped roughly like a monkey, one covered with cheap fake fur, and so on.
[read more...]ADHD: More on exactly what's going on. (2011/01/09)
My mom wrote about recent research on ADHD. This is of interest to me in part because I was the one who pointed her at the articles. But it’s also of interest to me because it’s such a very good description of what goes wrong with my brain. It also, I think, explains why fidgets work so well for helping me focus; if I’m fidgeting, the default mode network can busy itself fidgeting while I go pay attention to something else.
[read more...]More thoughts about autism... (2010/12/01)
My friend Dave commented on my post about autism, using his own blog… madness!
[read more...]Identity and attributes (2010/11/27)
In many fields of discussion, you eventually run into the fundamental question: How do you distinguish between identity and attributes? This might seem a bit abstract, so lemme give a few examples.
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