Tag: autism
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1 Michael didn’t like this. He was watching out the car window and rocking gently. This was not like the streets of home. His city was small, and he knew most of the streets, and this was a big road that wasn’t like that. His father was driving the car. His father looked very nervous,…
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Had they come in through the window? Veronica was certain that she’d locked it last night, but this morning it was open, just a crack. Had she forgotten to lock it? Had a memory lapse allowed them in? Or maybe they had already been in the closet. Veronica’s eldest, Jase, had warned her about that.…
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“My favorite movie? Well, that’s a difficult question. My favorite genre is sci-fi fantasy, so the easy answer would be Star Wars. The first one, which was only renamed ‘A New Hope’ in later releases. But if we’re honest, despite the way that it was a cultural phenomenon and a special fx powerhouse, it was…
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Jessamyn sat on a bench in the middle of the city park, having counted the cement blocks it had taken to get from the curb next to the lot where she’d parked the car to the bench she was on now (twelve). The path was curved, bordered on either side by neatly manicured grass that…
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I was reminded today of the belief that Autistic people don’t do sarcasm. This is completely, utterly, and totally true. Yeah, right. While it’s true that many Autistic people do in fact enjoy being sarcastic, there are some reasons why someone, especially a Neurotypical person, might wish to be careful. One: It depends on the…
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This is about a stress event that happened last week at work. It’ll take a detour first, though. It is a half million years ago. Protohumans are actively evolving, living in small groups. The world is full of dangers: Toxins in the environment, cliffs and rocks that can break bones, predators that can eat us,…
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I teach mathematics. In mathematics, we have a thing called “literal equations”. When I first met this term, and indeed for a long time afterward, it confused me. Isn’t every equation literally an equation? What makes some equations more equation-y than other equations? The issue here is that “literal” means something different in mathematical argot…
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Imagine you speak French as your first language. In your case, this is strange because nobody you knew growing up spoke French. You are surrounded by people who speak English. Your family speaks English and only English. You’ve never been exposed to any language other than English. Certainly not French. So you don’t know how…
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Once upon a time in one of my transgender groups, someone asked: If you’d been born in a body of the other sex, would you still be transgender? On its face, I’d assume that binary transgender people would generally say no, they’d be cisgender, they’d be happy with the anatomy they had, and that nonbinary…
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April is Autism Acceptance Month. Because our understanding of Autism is rapidly evolving, so too is the language we use. In this article, I’ll discuss current best practices for language and address some of the common misunderstandings around Autism. Autism is a neurological status (“neurotype”) characterized by differences from Neurotypical brains. To qualify for a…