Do parents have the right to blog about their kids? I’ll go out on a limb here and suggest that it’s a question many bloggers in the Aspergersphere don’t want to ask. Sure, some parents blog under false names. So then maybe that’s okay. But a lot of us blog under our real names, or [...]
September 5, 2011
School is just starting up here in Canada. Labour Day Monday marks the end of the summer. It’s the day to find the lunchbag, backpack, lock (and combination!), do one last set of neurofeedback training, and then rehearse how the day is going to go. Rehearsing is funny. I mean, if you’ve never done it. [...]
August 14, 2011
The UK riots seem to be over (yay). Now we’re left with figuring out what in the bloody hell happened. Why did thousands of young people suddenly decide to try to burn their world down? The politicians look for ideological causes. Because they’re funny that way. The lefties claim the cause is social problems, poverty, [...]
July 25, 2011
Stimming is a thing Asperger people do. What does stimming do? It pokes the senses a little. That helps keep them awake. (Think of crossing and uncrossing your legs when you’re sitting in a boring lecture.) It feels good. It seems to tickle them inside. Even verbal stimming (playing with words and sounds). It soothes. [...]
July 18, 2011
I could have written this post. But someone has said it better than me. This video is Bill Cosby addressing graduation at Carnegie Mellon. But he could have been talking to Asperger young people. “Don’t talk yourself into not being you.”
July 4, 2011
One thing you notice about many (but not all) Asperger people is the monotone voice and lack of body language. They don’t show their emotion in their voice and face the way NT people do. At the same time, they have a hard time reading voice and body language signals from others. So why is [...]
September 8, 2011
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