Over the course of our pandemic year, neurotypicals kept running into thingsāsuch as zoom fatigue and a need for cognitive transitionsātheyād do well to remember the next time they encounter an autistic person just trying to get through their day-to-day lives.
Continue reading...Month: May 2021
Iām On A Boat
On my fourth day on antibiotics for my fourth urinary tract infection of the year, the world started to move even when I was standing still.
Continue reading...I Wish You Were More Predictable
Gone from social media since last year, I nonetheless keep an eye out for concepts which help me explain why.
Continue reading...Six More And I Get One Free
It took a long-distance hail and a jogging trot across the street, but I just barely managed to catch the most convenient bus to my destinationāimportant, because I didnāt want to waste any more time than already had been wasted that morning.
Continue reading...Pre-Pandemic Achievement Unlocked
Today at midday, failing in the energy required to do yesterdayās dishes, I set foot inside a neighborhood bar to have what in pre-pandemic days was my weekly excursion for a cheap bar breakfast, for the first time since the first week of March of last year.
Continue reading...Opening A Support Ticket
Iāve long been in agreement that functioning labels need to go but Iām not sure about replacing them with internalized versus externalized presentations.
Continue reading...Pathologies And Pendulums
The trouble with being a mediocre autistic is that you canāt have a purely positive response to something like Spectrumās pair of surprisingly forward-thinking articles on autistic strengths and special interests.
Continue reading...That Inevitable Snap
It eventually came in over the Arabian Peninsula and crashed near the Maldives, but I failed to take Marina Korenās advice not to āfall to pieces just because Chinaās rocket isā.
Continue reading...Did I Have Covid?
Very early on in the pandemic, in February 2020, James Hamblin of The Atlantic passed along Harvard epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitchās view of what was to come, in a piece entitled āYouāre Likely to Get the Coronavirusā.
Continue reading...Begin The Begin
Last year during the height of the pandemic, I quit social media. The long and the short of it being that Iād come to realize that the feed is a cognitively terrible way to present information, even setting aside the way in which itās gamified to trigger dopamine responses.
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