I made the first move in regaining an online social community today. I’ve missed them. I hope they take me back.
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Tag Archives: frustrations
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 [...]
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 [...]
I was dumb and I was proud
And I’m sorry.
After months of thinking about it, I emailed Craig, my dissertation supervisor. I admitted I have completely stalled on my topic and can no longer write it. I explained about Asperger’s and how I’ve lost my passion for IR–the linguistics of politics were a rather obsessive passion at the time I [...]