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: therapy
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 [...]
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, [...]
hear a pin drop
Insights I have had in the past few days:
1. I really can’t skip the iron pills.
I thought I was in the clear because the month that Kitty was here was like some unending meat-fest, in terms of the relative level of meat in my diet. I normally don’t get a lot of meat because [...]
gonna listen to what my mother said
So, I’ve had this here blog thing less than a week, and my mom found it. I’m not sure if she’s still reading it, or if it was a one-time read-through, revlusion/horror/sadness sort of deal, because I haven’t posted since she told me–for fuck’s sake, I’d barely had a chance to make a dent [...]
the toys are broken
To start, it is Prosper’s 3 month birthday according to my totally arbitrary date I gave him by counting down from how old the shelter thought he was when I adopted him and then fudging the number a bit so his birthday coincides with the date most commonly celebrated as Shakespeare’s birthday. The kitten [...]