http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/07/autistic_robot Pay particular attention to the opening sentence: "Children with autism are often described as robotic: They are emotionless. They engage in obsessive, repetitive behavior and have trouble communicating and socializing." There is a long-standing stereotype, particularly amongst non-autistic people with limited ...Read More
Many non-autistic people speak from a position of privilege where autistics are concerned. In their minds, autistics consist of Rainman stereotypes, and forms of autism in which the autistic is capable of speech, has an above-average IQ, or is capable ...Read More
http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/drinkgame.html This is awesome and hilarious and funny and you should look at it. This was a joint project between Amorpha, the Rhymers and us, and Astraea decided to put it up on their site. :D Read More
akinokure.blogspot.com This blog is full of needless quantifying of human characteristics, mixed in with a creepy dose of how Hot Young Girls Are. Read it and weep. Read More
Recent events, including a potentially life-threatening accident, overwhelming demands on our time, inability to express ourselves as separate people offline, inability to 'act significantly autistic' -- we can't stim or anything, lack of privacy at 'home' and people's continued disregard ...Read More
Seeing if ScribeFire will publish to Believelands. (Not to mention that it's fun to play with new toys.) Read More
Denying someone’s selfhood is incredibly easy for some people, and we have never been able to understand it intuitively. It is extremely hard for us — even when we are extremely angry at someone — to utterly disregard aspects of ...Read More