I've been thinking about this for a few days now, but I'm really not getting anywhere with it, so I figured I'd write it out and get it out of my head. Feel free to comment (or not) as you like ( Read more... )

Okay so that title probably isn't too helpful sorry about that. I have a question for you since this happens to me occasionally. If someone says something negative about your favorite piece of clothing or any other obJect you really love and the person is rather close to you would that obJect be ruined forever ( Read more... )

I'm reading Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World, published in 2009 by Tyler Cowen, an autistic economics professor. Cowen talks a lot, in this book, about the value of the ways that many autistic minds organize information. Of course, in order to talk about such a thing to a predominantly neurotypical audience, ( Read more... )

#1: Bad thing: Michele Bachmann's voice ( Read more... )

Hi, this is Erika Hammerschmidt, author, speaker and longtime lurker. Why have I been so inactive, in all forms of internet social interaction, for so long? Well, many reasons... but one is that I have been busy collaborating with my husband John Ricker on a new book. A science fiction novel ( Read more... )

he's going to start flying. ;-)

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(twitter posting from a fellow that follows the stock market)

I went to a dinner party with a couple Boyfriend knows. Somewhere in the conversation the woman mentioned science-mad engineer types trying to get into teaching and not doing very well at class control &c, and I made a passing jokey remark about 'science geeks with undiagnosed Asperger's ( Read more... )

Does anyone else ever experience this ( Read more... )

I was sorting through my icons because I wanted to put new ones up and had to decide what to delete. As I re-read this one, which I've had up for a long time,  (BE WHO YOU ARE and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind) a quote from Dr. Seuss, I just noticed that it says "feel" not "think". I find ( Read more... )