Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory is an Aspie. Anyone want to argue with me on that? And what a wonderful, uber-Aspie he is! Sure , his whole cadre of friends are nerds, geeks, and social misfits — including the customers at the comic store and the speech-impedimented bully at the cafeteria. But Sheldon [...]
November 20, 2011
If you’re reading this post, then you probably have a teen Aspie. You’re looking ahead to college and thinking: How is this kid going to survive? He can’t cook! For many, many Aspies, food is one of the Big Issues. Too many sensory issues are involved. Not surprisingly, most don’t learn how to prepare their [...]
September 8, 2011
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 [...]
June 27, 2011
To understand how video games impact the Asperger brain, you have to know a little bit about the frontal lobe. It’s the part of the brain that’s at the front. And it’s a lobe. Hence the name. The frontal lobe is the most evolved part of our brain. It manages all of these tasks: organization, [...]
June 21, 2011
Yesterday I posted about the anterior cingulate gyrus. And no, I’m not an expert, I’m just a blogger. But if you want to read from an expert, go to Wikipedia. Trust me, my version’s easier. Today, we roll up our sleeves and explore the posterior cingulate gyrus. Ahem. Let me rephrase that. Some of my [...]
January 17, 2012
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