From the Link Cellar This Week
Fresh, resurrected, or newly discovered links from across the internet and the dusty reaches of Shift Journal’s archives. • • • • • • ... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 03/28/11 | No Comments | Read More
Art/Play/Myth
From the Link Cellar This Week
Fresh, resurrected, or newly discovered links from across the internet and the dusty reaches of Shift Journal’s archives. • • • • • • ... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 03/21/11 | No Comments | Read More
From the Link Cellar This Week
Fresh, resurrected, or newly discovered links from across the internet and the dusty reaches of Shift Journal’s archives. • • • • • • ... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 03/14/11 | 1 Comment | Read More
Friendship, Intimacy, the Autistic Cohort, and The Social Network
There is a stemwinder of a review of Aaron Sorkin’s film The Social Network that surfaced this week at Hacker News, one which manages to weave in many of the themes treated here at Shift by various ... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 03/11/11 | 4 Comments | Read More
From the Link Cellar This Week
Fresh, resurrected, or newly discovered links from across the internet and the dusty reaches of Shift Journal’s archives. • • • • • • ... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 03/7/11 | No Comments | Read More
Last week I stunk up my kitchen and house by letting the oven go too long without being cleaned. I had noticed in December that it was starting to get dirty, but I thought it could wait for a day war... [Read More]
Gwen McKay on 03/2/11 | 5 Comments | Read More
Call for Submissions: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose by Autistics in Mid-Life (final call)
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 02/28/11 | No Comments | Read More
From the Link Cellar This Week (plenty)
Fresh, resurrected, or newly discovered links from across the internet and the dusty reaches of Shift Journal’s archives. • • • • • • ... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 02/28/11 | No Comments | Read More
From the Link Cellar This Week
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Mark Stairwalt on 02/21/11 | 1 Comment | Read More
It is with great relief that I remind myself it is not my job to convince others that I am right. If I’ve not changed any minds though, his past couple weeks on the site have been rewarding in other... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 02/18/11 | 9 Comments | Read More
New Thread (If Not Us, Then Who?)
[continued from previous] I’ve said that I see a lot of thoughtful attention here; I’d like to also say that everyone (hi Diane, welcome; thanks for coming by) seems to be making sound arguments, ... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 02/15/11 | 6 Comments | Read More
From the Link Cellar This Week
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Mark Stairwalt on 02/14/11 | No Comments | Read More
When I first started studying how to be a parent, I read a lot of claims regarding the importance of monitoring, limiting, or disallowing television and video watching. However, when Willy first star... [Read More]
Stephanie Allen Crist on 02/8/11 | 3 Comments | Read More
From the Link Cellar This Week
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Mark Stairwalt on 02/7/11 | No Comments | Read More
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Mark Stairwalt on 01/31/11 | No Comments | Read More
Once upon a time—in the far distant past, or perhaps in a future yet to come—a herd of mountain goats dwelt atop a high plain. Steep jagged cliffs fell away from this isolated mesa on all sides. ... [Read More]
Gwen McKay on 01/26/11 | 2 Comments | Read More
Music Preference in Introverts and Extroverts
For the majority of people in the industrialized West, music is primarily a means of social identity and unity. Millions listen to the same top 25 songs that everyone else is listening to. Of those t... [Read More]
Zygmunt on 01/24/11 | 2 Comments | Read More
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Mark Stairwalt on 01/24/11 | No Comments | Read More
After sitting in an idle moment watching one of those terribly popular cooking shows on TV, because someone else wanted to watch it, I have become convinced of my explanation as to why there are so fe... [Read More]
Lili Marlene on 01/18/11 | No Comments | Read More
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Mark Stairwalt on 01/17/11 | No Comments | Read More
The Role of Reading for Introverts and Extroverts
To extroverts an activity such as sitting alone for extended periods reading books seems like torture. Certainly, plenty of extroverts read books, but it’s mainly filler for odd moments when there�... [Read More]
Zygmunt on 01/10/11 | No Comments | Read More
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Mark Stairwalt on 01/10/11 | No Comments | Read More
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Mark Stairwalt on 01/3/11 | No Comments | Read More
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Mark Stairwalt on 12/27/10 | No Comments | Read More
Did the Autistic Cohort Beget Wikileaks?
It’s been said that analogy is the weakest form of logic, to which I’ve always wanted to reply, “And Hallelujah for it.” If analogy is the red-headed stepchild of logicians it finds its true ... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 12/24/10 | 14 Comments | Read More
Introverts: Creatures of the Night
“You’re looking tired.” “You look like you just got up.” “Why don’t you go to bed earlier.” These are frequent comments an introvert hears in the morning at work/school/whatever place ... [Read More]
Zygmunt on 12/21/10 | 2 Comments | Read More
For one who begins life beneath the surface of the Main Stream of social conventions, there is the constant problem of Human Interaction Deficiency, a chronic source of pain that makes functioning in ... [Read More]
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Mark Stairwalt on 12/20/10 | No Comments | Read More
I am reading through the parent handbook provided by our son’s speech therapist and I reach the section that begins, “Autistic children do not know how to play.” Although I cringe when I read st... [Read More]
Sarah Schneider on 12/16/10 | 2 Comments | Read More
There was once a story by H.P. Lovecraft that particularly stirred me. It was about a man who ruled over a fantastic kingdom in his mind yet seemed a half-mad beggar to all those who saw him fumbling ... [Read More]
Zygmunt on 12/14/10 | No Comments | Read More
