A large percentage of adults with Aspergers Syndrome (considered a form of ‘high functioning autism’) are employable, even if only able to manage part time work or minor self employment. Chronic underoccupation and unemployment is way too common for adults on the autism spectrum with around 80% being without paid work and most of those living on disability benefits even though a significant percentage of those people also do not identify as being ‘disabled’. Read the rest of this entry »

“In his first Christmas message in the top job, Mr Abbott urged Australians to live up to their good nature and lend a hand to those doing it tough during the holiday season. ‘We are a good and generous people,’ he said in a statement on Tuesday. He also thanked those working for charities looking after the less fortunate on Christmas Day.

So what’s wrong with that? Read the rest of this entry »

As a Taoist, I find the positives in otherwise negative experiences. Read the rest of this entry »

I went through breast cancer treatment in 2011 at the age of 47. As a person with autism the process was probably a bit different for me. Read the rest of this entry »

This month’s artwork is titled ‘Starman’. Read the rest of this entry »

When I have posted information about the right to a dignified, self-determined death, I find healthy young people with Asperger’s comment from a fear of Nazi like euthanasia. Read the rest of this entry »

Wondering in your screaming functionally non verbal child is in severe pain? Remember that a simple blood test will rule out pain if the inflammatory markers are low… it is simply fact, pain=inflammation, except in non-inflammatory peripheral neuropathy – neuropathic pain associated with nerve damage. Read the rest of this entry »

My abuser claimed in a letter to me as an adult that she’s only ever ‘smacked me when I was bad’. Read the rest of this entry »

I was the doorbell… wind, wind, wind, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, wind, wind, ring…. oh shit, they’ve replaced it with a battery one… Read the rest of this entry »

All humans, ALL humans, have combinations of around 4-6 of these 16 personality traits.
All humans process information differently among these very different learning and information processing styles

… so what about the myth of neuro typicality? Read the rest of this entry »