Skimming this article on tech diversity, something that has always bothered me as an aspie is how opaque people are. How they'll use a whole ton of words to say nothing. I think by and large conservatives are less opaque than liberals. This isn't necessarily a good...
Great post on The Realistic Autistic, A Hostile World on the way the senses are often affected in people on the spectrum: I wish more people would be that thoughtful about their interactions with others. Most people have no way of knowing these difficulties I've...
The creator of Pokémon is on the autistic spectrum. He really liked insects as a child and didn't like all the violence in video games. I have noticed a lot of my friends on the spectrum love Pokémon, the video game and the card game.
Racism is Real: Trump Helps Show It [nytimes.com]: Tomás Jiménez, an associate professor of sociology and comparative studies in race and ethnicity at Stanford University, uses what he calls the “ghost metaphor” to describe the quandary of people who personally...
Article on employing people on the spectrum: This can be of great value. After all, the majority may get it wrong, as was the case with the mortgage crisis in 2008. Many experts were blindsided by the sudden collapse of the subprime market. However, hedge fund manager...
A thing as common as dirt that those in power do is getting people to believe there is something wrong with them (instead of there being something wrong with the system) when things don't go the way they're supposed to. In religion when people don't experience God at...
So I found out today it's $800-$1,200 to get tested to see whether I'm on the spectrum (they don't take any of the insurance I have). I've been told I have some traits of people on the spectrum by psychiatrists but never got formal testing done. Part of the reason I...
Sometimes people on the spectrum's mannerisms mimic shoplifters. Follow these tips to be safer. These tips apply for anyone, especially anyone who is not clean cut, neurotypical and white. If possible don't bring a backpack into a store. It raises suspicion. Never...
March is International Ideas Month and I couldn't help but toot my horn. I did the quote on the masthead in memory board. Memory Board is mainly an alternative communication tool for people on the spectrum but can also be used for learning languages and remembering...
In order for me to feel safe I need to have fail safes in place which is pretty much the opposite of how God works. God promises he will never fail you and then sets the rhetorical stage so that no matter what he does it’s impossible for him to do so. Any situation...