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. [...]
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Tag Archives: asperger’s
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 [...]
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 [...]
speeches are all spoken
So, I don’t think it’s news that Autism Speaks doesn’t speak for actual autistic people, nor their families, nor anyone who gives more than half a shit about things like equality, disability rights, neurodiversity, or the rights of children. You know, real trivial stuff.
And yet, they can surprise me. ABFH reports on a [...]
I could not replace
My ability to quote Kate lyrics for titles remains unfettered and, probably, unimpressive.
I was reading a blog I quite enjoy just now, and gladly read her breakdown of a new study reporting Copy Number Variations (CNVs) in relation to autism.
I love science. That is all. Head on over there to read why this [...]
we’ll work it out
First of all, I think that this expresses my current mood best. There is a box of sugar cookies behind me, taunting.
True story: I once made Dylan a sugar cookie fiend out of fleece and it plays the sugar cookies rampage. I am aware that you are stunned at my awesome.
I’m also currently [...]
long enough for me to string two words together
So I’ve been working in my head on a tentative, unified theory of autism, giftedness, and extraneous diagnoses like NVLD (that’s nonverbal learning disorder, plebes) and hyperlexia. I’m working on writing it up–there’s a lot, and a lot to reference. I’m certainly not the first person to notice the overlap between these things, [...]
she’ll never reach her wit’s end
Two important things:
1. My very good friend Stina is 25 as of today. I have made her an awesome present of awesomeness, which I’ll discuss after her party as she reads this blog.
2. I love anagrams. I especially love challenging anagrams. And I am here to tell you that there are at [...]