Ugh. Maybe connecting is overrated ( Read more... )

Hmph ( Read more... )

I really have no tolerance for people who claim there is something malignant about ABA. It's untrue, and those who buy into it are making some serious errors in judgment about ( Read more... )

Humans are mean ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot about the differences between cognitive empathy and affective empathy today. It appears that most people with ASD have pretty adequate feelings of compassion towards their fellow human beings, but have a much more difficult time actually putting themselves in the shoes of others ( Read more... )

Heh heh. English class. I have never had so much damn trouble with English class. I was. Ridiculously tweeked out on speed during my first attempt at a higher education. My freshman English class was a breeze, and the only class I made an A in. My high school teachers loved my work, and I usually broke a curve on the hardest research papers. That I ( Read more... )

Ugh. Younger me. It's funny how symbollic everything is to me, here. Livejournal feels ancient. I feel like I have returned somewhere. I was just in a bar with Bruce the other day and... maybe a month or so ago... and. Well. I guess I don't remember it all, I think I got quite drunk. I was having my own crisis at the time. Despite my assertion a ( Read more... )

I don't know how I feel about the whole eye contact thing. It seems kinda. Uh. Okay I'm not the expert and I'm biased here. Of course making eye contact can be very functional. But I don't readily make it, myself, so I get where Wylie's coming from ( Read more... )

... I don't know if I like this thing. I don't know what I'm doing up in the middle of the night. I don't know how I feel about my rants from 700 years ago on here. It's so funny cuz I look at them now in sheer honesty cuz it's so obvious I was so. Hmm. Not sad, just avoidant. It was weird, I mean, I've always kept journals. I fancy myself as a bit ( Read more... )

Okay, 4 years ago, I was 21. What the fuck. I just read like 3 or 4 entries from this thing, from like 2006, and I'm special. Haha ( Read more... )