stemming is meditating for those of us who CAN'T FIND GOD in our brain OR out of it a cynic is someone who sees the world with a level of accuracy that makes others uncomfortable people who say God is near those his people are drawing away from are lying interactions...
One of the issues with those on the spectrum (including myself) is taking society's noble lies at face value. This has been a cause of consternation in my life. One of the noble lies I believed was that friendships would last forever (in some capacity) if both...
Great post on fight or flight from The Realistic Autistic: This reminded me of a theory I read years ago regarding deer, humans, and human society. Deer have two modes: calm and upset. They mainly live in calm, unless predators or some kind of threat occurs. At which...
People tell you to improve your life you need to take on a new thing be it a job, a medication, volunteering, or something else. What they fail to tell you is if you are on the bottom it is very difficult to impossible to actually quit that new thing you tried. This...
Following up on my Forgiveness and Indra's Net post, I think a lot of times forgiveness just makes things more difficult. I know this is not an opinion that is going to be popular with religion or modern psychology but my experience has been it's been true. Wrongs...
Often the the DIS in disability grows larger as you get older. For me it was obvious because by 16 my vision was too bad to drive so I was suddenly different from everyone else. At 24 when I was too mentally ill to live on my own I was again different than everyone...
Some of the NT things that just don't work for me: I'll Sleep On It Most people generally get clarity on a subject after sleeping on it. With me it's just the opposite. I had a decision I had to make and I slept on it and I was less sure the next day. I generally...
One of the things in the NT world is there is blow back for pointing out the obvious. For example: "Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is...
Pretend intelligence is smartphone quality. The better quality the smart phone the faster frames per second it can record. So for example you can do super slow motion shots of people jumping off the diving board with the most expensive phones. Now bring it back to...
If Trump were on the spectrum behaving the exact same way he is now he wouldn't have lasted a week.