I have been unfortunate in life in that the two closest friends I have had became uncommunicative in the end. The first friend from junior high I had a falling out with and the second one from college I became too low status for. These people aren't stupid, they did...
Pretend you are a creating a character for some kind of RPG video game. You have a fixed amount to spend on a set of character attributes (for example, speed, attack, shields). At this first level you don't have too much to spend so you have to make sacrifices, your...
You are at a beautiful beach at high tide. Then the tide recedes and you see a ton of garbage that has sunk to the bottom. That's the way I feel about the interplay of my pathologies, The negative symptoms of my bipolar have made my autism spectrum symptoms more...
I am really far from Evangelical Christianity but still really appreciate this Billy Graham evangelistic video. Of particular interest to me was the part about the single mother who was thinking of suicide and someone in the church detected it, finding a "suicidal...
A lot of disability accommodations (specifically for those on the spectrum) are seen by society as power grabs. This is largely because people with disabilities are generally on the bottom of the totem pole and thus expected to put up with crap. The problem with...
Amazing Reddit comment on what being on the spectrum is like.
From an early age I always associated the concept of God with pitch black. I know this was the opposite of what you were supposed to associate God with. Also when I was seven or eight I couldn't think about people (or at least I wasn't aware that I could hold someone...
Maybe I'd get along in the world if programming were more like interacting with people. Some interpreter errors: ERROR: You missed a curly bracket somewhere but I don't want to lower your self-esteem so I ran the code anyway. ERROR: I'm just going to give you a white...
One of the many reasons society isn't comfortable around those with aspergers syndrome is we tend to believe like kings. Believing like a king involves seeing the world to the closest approximation that it really is. Believing like a king involves knowing that most...
With a visible disability your every interaction with the world is an incursion. Your disability makes others in the room uncomfortable and it is incumbent upon you to put them at ease. My little brother actually brought this to my attention when he hurt his hand a...