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Mark Stairwalt on 12/13/10 | No Comments | Read More
Art/Play/Myth
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Mark Stairwalt on 12/6/10 | No Comments | Read More
As I’ve often noted, humans are a storytelling species. We grow and evolve as a society by developing new cultural narratives to explain our surroundings and the events of our lives. As we gai... [Read More]
Gwen McKay on 12/1/10 | 2 Comments | Read More
Who are they? Where did they come from? Where did they go? Was there something not quite right about that level of involvement of siblings with each other’s lives? Did they find whatever it was that... [Read More]
Lili Marlene on 11/29/10 | No Comments | Read More
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Mark Stairwalt on 11/29/10 | No Comments | Read More
… come back and look at your autistic child again, and say to yourself: “This is not my child that I expected and planned for. This is an alien child who landed in my life by accident. I don’t k... [Read More]
Sarah Schneider on 11/26/10 | 2 Comments | Read More
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Mark Stairwalt on 11/22/10 | No Comments | Read More
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Mark Stairwalt on 11/15/10 | No Comments | Read More
Call for Submissions: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose by Autistics in Mid-Life
Statement of Purpose I plan to publish an anthology of poetry and prose by people on the autism spectrum, aged 35 and over. I welcome all pieces of writing about your feelings about being autistic, yo... [Read More]
Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg on 11/12/10 | No Comments | Read More
Although blogs have become very popular in the past few years, most blogs currently online are no longer active. Sometimes that’s because a person starts a blog and then gets too busy to keep i... [Read More]
Gwen McKay on 11/10/10 | 4 Comments | Read More
I’ve done some more work on my old list of autistic fictional characters, giving it a spruce-up and adding stuff. I hope it now looks a little bit less ancient and neglected. This list of mine fea... [Read More]
Lili Marlene on 11/9/10 | No Comments | Read More
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Mark Stairwalt on 11/8/10 | No Comments | Read More
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Mark Stairwalt on 11/1/10 | No Comments | Read More
I’m Right Here: Rudy Simone on Life as an “Aspergirl”
Rudy Simone is a writer, jazz singer, and stand-up comedian in San Francisco. She’s also a proud member of an often-misunderstood minority-within-a-minority: a woman on the autism spectrum — or as... [Read More]
Rudy Simone on 10/29/10 | 2 Comments | Read More
From the Pro-Neurodiversity Trenches
Early intervention and treatment is important! If caught early enough, negative attitudes toward autism and other disabilities can be minimized and even reversed! Read more below to see what happens ... [Read More]
Guest on 10/28/10 | 7 Comments | Read More
When a Line of Toys Is Just Playtime
There’s lots about this parenting gig that I find delightful. Toys, and watching the kids playing with them, has to be one of the more fun bits. My kids line things up. Even when I knew it was on... [Read More]
KWombles on 10/28/10 | 4 Comments | Read More
For all its charms, the weblog platform does also bury older content for no better reason than that newer material has come along. While we all like to feel we’re improving, whether you are writing... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 10/25/10 | 1 Comment | Read More
In her article Grieving the Dream and Living What Is, Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg described her feelings about realizing that there are some things she cannot do because of auditory processing issues and ... [Read More]
Gwen McKay on 10/20/10 | 3 Comments | Read More
For all its charms, the weblog platform does also bury older content for no better reason than that newer material has come along. While we all like to feel we’re improving, whether you are writing... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 10/18/10 | No Comments | Read More
For all its charms, the weblog platform does also bury older content for no better reason than that newer material has come along. While we all like to feel we’re improving, whether you are writing... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 10/11/10 | No Comments | Read More
Sometimes, when life gets difficult it takes focusing on the simplest pleasures to help you take a step back and see progress. Really, think about that word for a moment. Progress. We live our live... [Read More]
Stephanie Allen Crist on 10/7/10 | No Comments | Read More
For all its charms, the weblog platform does also bury older content for no better reason than that newer material has come along. While we all like to feel we’re improving, whether you are writing... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 10/4/10 | No Comments | Read More
I recently watched A Wrinkle in Time, a movie based on Madeleine L’Engle’s book of the same name. Watching this movie brought back memories of my childhood, when I fell in love with L’Engle’s ... [Read More]
Stephanie Allen Crist on 10/1/10 | 9 Comments | Read More
Wearing Masks, or, Thoughts on Foxes
Last October I wrote a short little blurb on passing, using the mythos of the kitsune as an allegory. Mark e-mailed me back in April about his newest essay on the Uncanny Valley. Long e-mail now sho... [Read More]
Guest on 09/28/10 | No Comments | Read More
For all its charms, the weblog platform does also bury older content for no better reason than that newer material has come along. While we all like to feel we’re improving, whether you are writing... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 09/27/10 | 2 Comments | Read More
For all its charms, the weblog platform does also bury older content for no better reason than that newer material has come along. While we all like to feel we’re improving, whether you are writing... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 09/20/10 | No Comments | Read More
For all its charms, the weblog platform does also bury older content for no better reason than that newer material has come along. While we all like to feel we’re improving, whether you are writing... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 09/13/10 | No Comments | Read More
Modern medical science, despite having some areas in which it could stand considerable improvement, is still quite amazing when contrasted with how little our ancestors knew about the workings of the ... [Read More]
Gwen McKay on 09/1/10 | 3 Comments | Read More
“Then she led Psyche into a great chamber heaped high with mingled grain, beans, and lintels (the food of her doves), and bade her separate them all and have them ready in seemly fashion by night. ... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 08/20/10 | No Comments | Read More
The Value of Ideas and the Willingness to Let Go of Certainty
I’ve been thinking about the value of ideas today. I’ve been thinking about how we parse language, how we see the world in ways that confirm our belief systems. We look for connections, f... [Read More]
KWombles on 07/27/10 | No Comments | Read More
