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 04/4/11 | No Comments | Read More
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When I speak of Autism, please know I love your support and understanding. When I speak of my Autistic children, please know I understand them very well because I’ve been diagnosed myself. When I sp... [Read More]
Guest on 04/1/11 | No Comments | Read More
When Objects Resonate with Memory
Over at Kitaiska Sandwich, Sarah has a great post about the upset that her autistic son feels when things get broken or spilled. In reflecting upon the reasons for M’s upset, she finds that his res... [Read More]
Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg on 03/31/11 | 1 Comment | Read More
All of a sudden everyone’s talking about the issue of employment and Asperger Syndrome, a subject which I wrote about last year in my book, Asperger’s on the Job. People on the spectrum make great... [Read More]
Rudy Simone on 03/31/11 | No Comments | Read More
Review: All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome
Both my children are on the autism spectrum. Since my son Nicholas is almost twelve and higher functioning professionals who meet him for the first time always assume he has Asperger Syndrome. This ... [Read More]
Guest on 03/31/11 | No Comments | Read More
How To Have A Successful Relationship When One Or Both Partners Has Aspergers
Of course it is possible to be on the autism spectrum, or to be in love with someone on the spectrum and have a happy, successful love life. However, while all relationships are complex, there are uni... [Read More]
Rudy Simone on 03/31/11 | 1 Comment | Read More
Popular actress Kate Winslet has announced that she is writing a book to promote autism awareness and to raise money for an autism charity she founded, the Golden Hat Foundation. The book will feature... [Read More]
Gwen McKay on 03/30/11 | No Comments | Read More
While introverts do not like to constantly interact with people they strongly gravitate towards observing others. Watching intently what people do in crowds or social situations demands no input from ... [Read More]
Zygmunt on 03/28/11 | 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 03/28/11 | No Comments | Read More
Theories of Autism: Lessons from Dr. House
I’ve just been watching House. I say watching. To be honest, the details of this week’s plot passed me by as I was trying to follow it whilst simultaneously eating my dinner and having a convers... [Read More]
Guest on 03/25/11 | 3 Comments | Read More
We’ve all seen it happen many times on the Internet. People with similar interests get together and form a community, sharing their ideas on how to change the world. They find solidarity, friendship... [Read More]
Gwen McKay on 03/23/11 | 3 Comments | Read More
One might recall how multiple choice tests were graded back in school. The teacher would take a card with holes punched in the appropriate places and lay it over each test sheet. Then each test would ... [Read More]
Zygmunt 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 03/21/11 | No Comments | Read More
It turns out that last Friday’s post on Dan Haggard’s in-depth movie review The Social Network, the End of Intimacy, and the Birth of Hacker Sensibility went up one day shy of a year since... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 03/18/11 | 3 Comments | Read More
When M was two, a spilled glass of water could send him into a meltdown. We didn’t have a diagnosis yet, and this behavior was one of the early red flags. His response to a spill (or an object acc... [Read More]
Sarah Schneider on 03/17/11 | 1 Comment | Read More
My daughter went back to college on Sunday at the end of her spring break, after complaining at great length—both on her Facebook page and to anyone who would listen in real life—that it had been ... [Read More]
Gwen McKay on 03/16/11 | 2 Comments | Read More
Wandering: A Dangerous New Proposal
Last week, the ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee met to discuss the future of medical coding in the United States. The ICD-9-CM stands for the International Classification of Diseases, N... [Read More]
Guest on 03/14/11 | 4 Comments | Read More
“I hate to say it but my 11 year old nephew is a real nerd. He had NO Friends at all and really does not talk to anyone other than his teachers. He used to be a friendly little boy but liked to ta... [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
The news about my oven is not all stinky, I’m glad to report. I bought a new pair of cloth oven mitts, which arrived in the mail last week. While this may seem a trivial everyday purchase, it wasn... [Read More]
Gwen McKay on 03/9/11 | No Comments | Read More
One cannot read Walden and be in doubt that its author is a true introvert. Alone much of the time in his small, secluded cottage, Henry David Thoreau used his distance from society to engage in conte... [Read More]
Zygmunt on 03/7/11 | 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 03/7/11 | No Comments | Read More
The Misleading Nature of the Deficit Model
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. —Angela Monet I’ve never been shy about my feelings concerning the deficit model of autism. I object to its ... [Read More]
Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg on 03/4/11 | 2 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
In the previous post ‘Rulers of Celephais,’ a Ms. Hanna J. has asked me some questions about this blog which I will address in post length for the benefit of all readers. Here is her original pos... [Read More]
Zygmunt on 02/28/11 | No 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
The Ghosts That Haunt the Human Mind
Alright then, I got plenty more; I’ll just keep tossing ‘em out, and you all catch the ones you like. It is, I think, a pretty standard practice among those who take the social model of disability... [Read More]
Mark Stairwalt on 02/25/11 | 2 Comments | Read More
The Autism Gene: Maybe Not So Scary
The eugenic annihilation scenario has been giving the autistic community nightmares for the past six years, ever since Dr. Joseph Buxbaum predicted in a notorious article that genetic research would l... [Read More]
Gwen McKay on 02/23/11 | 4 Comments | Read More
