I just found the best site ever: the Institute for the Study of the Neurotypical.  Obviously, autistic people have no sense of humor whatsoever.   ::rolls eyes::

It's somewhat a fad among researchers (thank you, Simon Baron-Cohen) to claim that people with ASD lack a "theory of mind."  More or less broadly construed, this means the ability to ( Read more... )

This is how the NIH describes people with Asperger's syndrome:

• "The most distinguishing symptom of AS is a child’s obsessive interest in a single object or topic to the exclusion of any other."
• "Children with AS want to know everything about their topic of interest and their conversations with others will be ( Read more... )

This entry inspired by a friend telling me for the umpteenth time, "You need to be more persistent ( Read more... )

An interesting new study just came out of a lab at Northwestern.  I don't know the professor in question, but I know a graduate student who has done a rotation in her lab.

www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2009/07/ReadingNoise.html

( Educational implications )

My brother has trouble reading peoples' faces, figuring out social cues, how close or how far away to stand, and that sort of thing, and this has been giving him trouble at school and at home. (Which also makes it hard for people to know what to do with him, because he's incredibly smart in just about all areas, wants to learn constantly, but is ( Read more... )