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: utter pedantry
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 [...]
I like talking – when it’s a healthy back and forth exchange
I am so sick of doctors refusing to listen to what I say that I think I’m going to give up on visiting them. Clearly what I say has little to no bearing on their assumptions, so I might as well not go.
In September, my GP told me he wanted me to get an [...]
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 [...]
organized
With skills beyond my usual expectations, I woke myself at the godawful hour of noon today (I had been asleep since around 8:30, because Prosper was a little beast and ended up being Bathroom Cat (1)) and made it over to work eleven hours before I was due. There was a presentation scheduled on [...]
doubt and din
So, I went to the doctor for my 2 week follow up after discontinuing topamax last Friday (the 2nd).
He was still pretty skeptical of my claims of possible seizure activity. I haven’t had another event with the nystagmus and all of that, but I’m still having daily rounds of hiccups (fun) and [...]
you don’t even know my name
DM CORNISH FRIENDED ME ON FACEBOOK AND I AM STILL ALL CAPSING ABOUT IT DAYS LATER.
Now I must coerce him onto my blog where he can read my fanfiction, see the art, and see my most awesome work of fannish glee: the complete and utter pedantic destruction of his map. Ha HA! (Oh, [...]
you are a mystery
Look, it is exceedingly unwise to engage in a battle of pedantry with me. I will even engage those who don’t know they’re playing!
Spoilers for the end of Lamplighter, kind of.
Page 394, US hardcover edition: “Her Grace, the Branden Rose, Europa of Fontrevault, Duchess-in-waiting of Naimes; the Lady Threnody of Herbroulesse and a guest!” [...]