The social majority of humans, in fact around 60-65% of people, can think predominantly in pictures. They’re visual thinkers. Another 30% of people can think predominantly in words or mental chatter. They’re verbal thinkers. These mechanisms allow people to INTERNALLY mentalise. They can think INSIDE of their heads.
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We passed her on the train platform, tall, mid 20s, sporting a stylish winter coat, hair well kept. She was probably reasonably well educated, reasonably financial. And she sucked on a cancer stick. I thought, another sucker for the billionaire multinationals and their rat experiments.
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After doing a lecture called The Dietary Wheelchair about the role of dietary interventions in my own journey with autism, I was contacted by Cassie Wells from ORGRAN Natural Foods . She asked if I’d mind being interviewed for their magazine and I agreed and she generously accepted the additional publication of […]
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A student in Singapore, Asvin Kaur, asked me 5 questions and has agreed you can all benefit from their answers. Here they are:
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Each month I send out a challenge for people to send me a 1-2 word topic they’d like me to write a poem to and I must write all the poems in the challenge within 48 hours.
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Yesterday I decided to be helpful and it almost killed me.
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Another GF/CF low salicylate recipe this time from my fab husband Chris Samuel!
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Barbara Smith M.S., OTR/L ( http://www.barbarasmithoccupationaltherapist.com ) works with many children on the autism spectrum in the area of hippotherapy (not hippos, but horses). This involves occupational therapy through interaction with horses and horse riding to help children achieve goals such as improved balance, coordination or communication skills to tell the horse to […]
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Our TV here in Australia has just had advertisements urging everyone to go vegetarian. That may not sound so strange but we, like the US, are a meat producing nation.
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Paul Swann is a Commissioning & Planning Officer with Department of Adult Social Care at Wrexham County Borough Council in Wales, UK. In the run up to an evening lecture I’m doing in Wrexham on Tuesday 9th Sept 2008, I offered Paul to set me 5 questions for an email interview. […]
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