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lunchtimes he’d spend walking by himself

I made the first move in regaining an online social community today. I’ve missed them. I hope they take me back.

what does it take to stop getting carried away?

Fair warning: there’s a lot of links in this post, and they’re not there to be pretty.
There’s been some discussion on ScienceBlogs of Jonah Lehrer’s recent piece for the NYTimes, a review of depression and rumination and some mildly interesting thoughts on why rumination may confer an evolutionary advantage, thus preserving depression through evolution. [...]

screaming, shouting in your ear

High on the list of reasons why I am awesome:
Steampunk headphones. Yes, they work. Yes, they ARE badass, thank you.

lots of froth, please, for the photo

Prosper is sick of travelling. However, he came home with a lovely consolation prize.
At the start of February, I escaped the second of back-to-back snowstorms with a meandering trip down to Atlanta to see Dad and Ron. The cat came along and stayed with Mik, which Prosper was less than enthused about.
This is [...]

young and caught in the crowd

The DSM-5 is due out in 2013, and it’s official: Asperger’s is no longer going to exist. It will be merged with autism and PDD-NOS into a broad category of Autism Spectrum Disorder, with a “severity” numeric scale to help indicate what services are a good starting point. You can read more about [...]

been lying there for weeks

There’s more at my photo stream on flickr.

between the dust and the debris

I’ll update later today (it’s after midnight, it’s today!) with hair and cat photos, if I don’t completely forget. As you do. It’s snowy snow snowing outside again. Another 4″ on top of the 8″ we had (that, to be fair, had melted down by half at least) over the weekend, with [...]

if you cry

First, SAD. My glasses were sold out when I went to order them. It’s been a long and crappy couple of weeks–the internet was cancelled, my debit card was cancelled (both without warning), so I have only just got it together to purchase them. NOT PLEASED. SHOUTING.
I’ve had a lot [...]

wrap me up against the cold

Alright, first of all, I would like to whine because it is COLD DEATH HORRIBLE COLD and has been for weeks.
Look, I know that by choosing to live in the mountains of Virginia, I run the risk of both boiling in summers and getting at least one good snow a year in the winters. [...]

and I notice these things

I really like the Aspie Teacher, and need to add her to my blogroll. I usually re-discover her blog when I’m playing on the autism hub and a new post comes up, and it’s always insightful and very helpful.
I’ve been thinking about perseveration since New Year’s Eve, when I read this post [...]