is something that might someday appear in all its parts and might not. Right now I'm primarily interested in writing about staff infecti...

My dad told me that most parents wouldn't understand my "visceral reaction" when I see indistinguishability held up as an idea...

I'm sorry to mix metaphors because I often compare zombies to people like me (unusual gait, does the same things a lot, often judged to ...

Thinking of trying to post here more. So I'll just say the social skills conversation makes me CRAZY*? It's become yet another of t...

what is an indistinguishable when it’s at home? that is, what do indistinguishables look like when they stand in empty rooms? who could love...

me: I don't know I just think my life is a lot better since I stopped thinking of myself as being "socially impaired" or wha...

I worked on this post for...um...well, a long time. Probably like 2 or 3 hours today without stopping for anything, and that's probably ...

The reason I'm titling these posts this way is that they both are anecdotes that I think are really funny--and in this case, really cute...

Tonight in line at the dining hall I was having a conversation with someone I kind of know. He was strikingly knowledgeable about when, in t...

Passing as Ethics So, passing as ethics is a term I invented and I use it a lot. It’s at the core of a lot of the stuff I write. In retr...

So I've read the piece Hell-Bent on Helping: Benevolence, Friendship, and the Politics of Help (which is a really great piece about how...

and I'm going to use it in this post so be warned. I'm not actually going to use it in the story I turn in to my workshop, because...

Playing Cards at Boston Children's Hospital by Lisa Blumberg was linked in a blog I was looking at and it's a really good and impor...

[the video hasn't processed yet, if it doesn't make it onto youtube I'm going to plotz though. FUCK YEAH SEAKING IT'S PROCE...

An exploration of the concept of social skills, particularly (but not exclusively) as it relates to people with autism, victim-blaming, and ...

The other day my mom showed me some articles in the newspaper about autism. Midway through one article ( http://www.thestamfordtimes.com/st...

after I made that post and didn't do my homework, because I was thinking how cool it would be to do a project collecting writing/talking...

(I used to be joking when I said that and now I'm not, which is an exciting change.) of course more of an effort needs to be made to i...

in other news, I continue to hate the term "high-functioning" so much that I want to start some sort of google-bombing project or ...

I know these posts are probably boring to everyone but me, especially because I never come to any real conclusion. I just like thinking abou...