Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Campus Speech Codes Target the Neurodiverse

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There is a fantastic piece by Geoffrey Miller on The Neurodiversity Case for Free Speech in which he makes the argument that Isaac Newton ...
Friday, June 23, 2017

On Anxiety

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If you are anywhere at all on the autism spectrum, you have anxiety. It seems to come with the territory. It's easy to find things about...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

More Support for the Intense World Theory; Or, Why We Hear Better Than You

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We may start looking at auditory signs of autism based on two recent discoveries. One is that autistic people hear more sounds than do neur...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

On the Double-Mindedness Developed Among the Different

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In The Souls of Black Folk , W.E.B. Du Bois says that blacks have a sort of doubleness in them not found among whites. Blacks cannot just ...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Sensory-Friendly Performance

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Last night my entire family attended a special concert for families with autistic children put on by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. This sen...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Neurodiversity and Group Selection

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Humans are hypersocial, but hypersociality doesn't necessarily mean acceptance of diversity. And yet, humans do manage to be both hypers...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Shakespeare and Autism

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There is a new autism therapy based on the works of Shakespeare called the Hunter Heartbeat Method . The initial results seem extremely prom...
Monday, September 5, 2016

Literary Interests on the Spectrum -- Fantasy, Comics, and Perhaps SciFi

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Of course, reading NeuroTribes means recognizing patterns repeated in me. There's something I share with practically every case study me...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

We Meritocrats

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I am currently reading Neurotribes , which I am sure I will continue to comment on as I continue to read it. Today, however, I want to bring...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

More on the Positive Side of Autism

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I really do not think that enough attention can be given to the positive side of autism . There are jobs and situations out there where ...