Showing posts with label Ableism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ableism. Show all posts
Friday, September 6, 2019

Dimensionality Reduction

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Dimensionality reduction is something I deal with in math, statistics, and engineering. It comes up in my research. The idea is that when da...
Friday, August 30, 2019

That AAC on a plane story

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I want to talk about a thread that's going viral. I just had such an affirming experience. On my 8hr intl flight back from a conferen...
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Saturday, November 10, 2018

"But that won't fly in [high school/college/the working world/etc...]!"

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When people have somewhat unusual methods of ... doing anything, really, there are often authority figures who will try to stop it with the ...
Monday, December 4, 2017

What if they're stimming with the device?

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In response to the fact that it is not OK to take someone's communication device away, ever , apparently it is common to ask, what if t...
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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Self-regulation, AAC access, and arguments that should not need to be

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One of the big things with augmentative and alternative communication devices is that you're not supposed to take the device away from...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Let's talk about fidget spinners and patterns.

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Fidget spinners are a fad. Thinkpieces about fidget spinners, therefore, are also a fad. That's how it works, right? On one side, ther...
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Monday, May 1, 2017

Jobs for autistic strengths and "autistic strengths"

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Full disclosure: Real Social Skills got me thinking about this with some tweets ( first tweet , second tweet , third tweet ), and then a bl...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

What do you mean by severity?

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A question I found on Quora (then answered, but the answer here is longer): Do people with autism have an understanding of their own cond...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Please, autism researchers, study these.

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Quite a bit of autism research is what I would call, to put it delicately (as in, I am neither screaming nor swearing at it), abled nonsens...
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Sunday, February 19, 2017

Divergent, Gattaca, and limitations "for your own good"

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Last night I participated in the #FilmDis chat about human gene editing and GATTACA. Which, even though it's been a while since I saw...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Not everything is possible (And I get a lot more done when I admit this)

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There are, in fact, things I can't do, no matter what mindset I am in. There are, in fact, things where it is not worth my time to try ...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

The absent minded professor

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It wasn't exactly a secret to me that some professors are autistic. First off ... professors are a subset of humans, and therefore I wo...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

#Pokémon Go and #Autism

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Like most games that get super popular, Pokémon Go has a lot of autistic people interested and playing. We play games, you know. And enjoy ...
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Friday, July 22, 2016

Dear Neurotypicals: What if you use your words?

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If we don't use our words, we won't be indistinguishable. (What's wrong with saying, "use your words"? Many, many th...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Wrap-Up

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I read Uniquely Human , and I went through it chapter by chapter, plus all that material that's not in a chapter. At the end of it all,...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 9

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Still reading Uniquely Human . Please let it be over soon. (This is chapter 8. There are 12 chapters. I get to The Real Experts chapter aft...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 8

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Still reading Uniquely Human . Still going blarglefeh at behaviorizing descriptions of autistic folks , even when the stuff we're doing...
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Friday, June 10, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 7

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I'm still reading Uniquely Human . I am getting very tired of running into the Exact. Same. Problems. every chapter. Can I just at this...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 5

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I'm reading Uniquely Human . The start of the series is here , and the previous part here . I've been loving the comments so far --...
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