My in-depth study of Christianity 18 years ago showed me just how far religion has veered from its original founder. I am now discovering a similar thing happening in the psychiatric community surrounding neurodiversity. That is what this post is all about. Continue reading Diversity – Convoluted Paths & A Way Forward…
Being a person with some strong Aspie traits, I just don’t handle stressful situations well. Fortunately, I don’t totally lose it as the word meltdown infers, but I quit acting like an adult and instead am a panicked kid. In autism studies, these episodes are called meltdowns, so I will call them that for the purposes of this post. Continue reading Aspie Meltdowns
All my life I have known that my brain must work differently than most around me. By age 6 or so I made it a regular thing to lie out in the dewy grass at night and just take in all the stars above me. There just seemed to be many more stars back then, but I guess it was because we hadn’t lit up the nighttime sky as much as we do now. Continue reading My Christmas Tree Brain
Self-doubt has always been an issue in my life, and I expect it is in many of you. From an early age I just didn’t think I was capable of doing anything worthwhile. I know now, that was a problem because of my much later discovery of my Autism. I basically saw the world as a different place than most around me. Continue reading About Self-Doubt…
Those who supposedly know more than the rest of us, think that everything can be explained by the Bell shaped curve. Just to prove that, to the right, I give you a small sampling of its use. If the bell … Continue reading The Ubiquitous Bell Shaped Curve…
One of the first “big boy” books I read at the age of 12 was a biography of Albert Einstein. That book has lived with me ever since. In my focus on Autism and Asperger’s, I have seen it frequently … Continue reading Be Focused & Persistent
It looks like it is time for another Autism quote here on RJsCorner. One of my jobs in life is to help you understand the width and breadth of Autism. The more you know, the better you will understand and … Continue reading Over Stimulation…
I have been thinking about Autism lately, particularly my acceptance of that label. Plainly speaking, I just don’t usually see myself as autistic. Many of my best traits are described by the term Aspie, or Aspergers syndrome. I am proud … Continue reading Autism, It’s Not A Black/White Issue
Welcome to the Boomer to AfterBoomers Club. Since this is the first official post for this new series, I want to tell you about what the B2AB project is all about and why you should come back often to this … Continue reading Welcome To The New “Boomer To AfterBoomer” (B2AB) Series
I have been on the fence about folding Asperger’s into the Autism Spectrum as I see only disadvantages to us Aspies by doing that. Especially since, to the public, Autism is seen as a young person crouching in the corner twitching and babbling. Many Aspies are in fact are in the upper echelons of IQ and can do many things better than most others (called NT for neurotypicals). Maybe some day Autism will finally be understood as a spectrum as wide as humanity itself, eliminating the Aspie label would not have the negative consequences it does now. But, I don’t … Continue reading I’m Willing To Admit The Link Between Autism &Asperger’s, But…
As far as I am concerned, everyone wears a mask. It is just the way we cope in the world. I have read so many articles in the last few months from those who have autism about wanting to tear … Continue reading Unmasked vs Unhinged.
You came on the world scene at the age of 11 when you started school strikes to do what you could to make people pay attention to climate change. You stopped eating and talking and fell into depression that scared … Continue reading Here’s To You Greta…
It takes a certain type of person to appreciate goats. Let’s face it, for some of us, all they do is eat, poop, and are generally nasty. But some others just love them despite, or maybe because of these characteristics. … Continue reading Goats & Aspies…
I have done a lot of reading about Asperger’s Syndrome and convinced that I have had many of those typical traits throughout my life, but only in the last decade found that they had a name. Now, the experts have … Continue reading I’m Still On The Fence With This Autism Thing…
For the next few Sundays I am going to be looking back at the 10+ years of RJsCorner to resurrect some of my favorite posts from the past. I mean those posts where I swell up when I read them again. The first of those favorites is what this post is all about.
Continue reading ““Favorites” Sunday”
I know the title above is rather ambitious for a single blog post, but I do want to give you an idea of how it came about and how some of the statistics might be deceiving. I have been studying … Continue reading The History of Autism
I saw an article in the New York Times recently about how a new orthopedic clinic contacted Amazon to find out who bought knee-braces in their area. After paying a fee Amazon sent that info along with names and addresses of the customers. The new clinic then sent mail to just that select group instead of flooding the area with their advertisements. I guess some would consider that an invasion of privacy but I kind of see it as smart advertising and saving a forest of trees. What do you think? Is Amazon abusing their customers? I’m a car guy, … Continue reading This N’ That Sunday- About Amazon (and other such things)
When I got a recent comment from one of my regular viewers I realized it was time for another post about Autism. This one is about senior citizens who are autistic but are generally undiagnosed. A recognized statistics is that there are over a million of us that are autistic in the Baby Boomer generation alone. Even if those million were suddenly officially diagnosed to be autistic it is very doubtful that any but a small percentage of them would even accept that fact. It is kind of like another area that I am familiar with and that is hearing … Continue reading Autism In The Elderly?
Being a person with some strong Aspie traits, I just don’t handle stressful situations well. Fortunately, I don’t totally lose it as the word meltdown infers but I quit acting like an adult and instead am a panicked kid. In autism studies, these episodes are called meltdowns so I will call them that for the purposes of this post. One of my most prominent stressors is criticism. I am plainly oversensitive. I often perceive my wife’s criticism as calling me a complete idiot. When those situations occur I frequently go into at least some level of meltdown. I start shouting … Continue reading Autism and Meltdown
It has been a while since I put out a post about Autism concentrating primarily on Aspbergers’ Syndrome. This post will be about sensory sensitivity. Of course, that means being sensitive to sight, touch, taste, sound, and smell and is often a symptom of Autism. I continue to discover new traits in my life that point me to Aspbergers. This one came from a billboard that I saw several times a month while traveling back and forth from my small town to a larger one with more services and medical options. Let’s go through the list with my stories: Sight … Continue reading Autism & Sensory Sensitivity
I have previously discovered that I have some characteristics that are identified with Asperger’s Syndrome which is part of the Autism spectrum. As a result, I have been more deeply studying the topic. I don’t call myself an Aspie as I have not been formally diagnosed with that … Continue reading A Touch of Austism…
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