This is more or less what I said in my 'mother of the bride speech' at Kendra and Adam's wedding.
[Greetings]
I get to do this speech because I was lucky enough to have Kendra to myself for the first 4 years of her life.
Having Kendra was the most life changing event of my life. There have...
I recently heard about a video entitled 'How to be autistic' that won an art prize. The video is very moving to people who are moved by that sort of thing, and this young artist has really put herself out there, so if it's your sort of thing, or if you're just curious, as I was, you can support he...
We usually consider inertia to be both a problem getting started and a problem with stopping. My research needs to be a bit narrower, so I'm focusing mainly on difficulties getting started, which I've taken to calling initiation impairments, at least for now. Even that is quite broad, and I'm actu...
If only NTs would answer a simple question with a straight answer. Oh, and it would help if they communicated with each other a bit as well. Here is a paraphrasing of a recent exchange between me and the DASS (disability services office) at the university where I am a PhD student.
- DASS:
- We nee...
I've started on my PhD, and the first item on the agenda was to write a literature review. I thought that would be quite straightforward as there is virtually no research literature on autistic inertia so far. It has turned out to be a little more complicated.
Because of the lack of research speci...
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This relates to an earlier post Why I don't want to be part of the 'autistic activism' scene and the fallout from it.