June 17th, 2006 at 9:23am |
Fellow author, Temple Grandin, wrote and lectured much on ‘thinking in pictures’, imagining that, because a majority of high functioning people with Asperger’s did think in pictures (though many were auditory thinkers who thought in words) that, therefore, this was indicative of how ALL people with autism thought. On this basis she claimed […]
Read the rest of Common Modes of Thought; its broader than thinking in pictures
June 8th, 2006 at 1:17pm |
Thoroughly addicted to videos, one autistic child after another will go without eating, sleeping, washing, dressing, schooling, even the toilet to reply, just one more millionth time their favorite Disney, Thomas The Tank or Bob The Builder video. Like addicts
Read the rest of Addiction unplugged - the TV and computer as babysitter.
June 7th, 2006 at 1:40pm |
I have had lucid dreaming for years. When I was a child I had night terrors which are basically like lucid dreaming whilst also sleep walking.
Read the rest of Lucid Dreaming. Who needs drugs?
June 4th, 2006 at 1:30pm |
From art deco to Victoriana, from 80s functionality and cost cutting brashness, to 1930s accomodation of the depression, Singapore has many faces. We went to Sentosa and experienced true kitch in its unbearable glory then to the botanical gardens with its space and floral beauty to restore our faith that all was […]
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