In a recent (June 2013) short and informative interview published in The Atlantic, James Fallows (JF) asks Linda Stone (LS) to explain what she means by such phrases as “continuous partial attention” and “attention strategy.” Many of us who are autistic have given much thought to the concepts outlined in the interview. For me, it …
July 2013 archive
Jul 24
Slides from a Workshop on Neuroexceptional Couples
Eva Mendes and I led a workshop at AANE’s Annual Conference for Adults. The theme of the Conference was Advocacy, and the keynote address was a 2-hour tour de force by our beloved Ari Ne’eman of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN). Our workshop was focused on relationships. Any relationship (romantic or otherwise) is a …
Jul 17
Autism Acceptance: My Thoughts Captured in an Interview
Paula Durbin-Westby has been publishing a series of interviews with autistic people on the subject of Acceptance. Mine is the latest one that she has posted on her Autism Acceptance Day blog. Please take a look and tell me what you think. Also, poke around her site for many useful links and lots of good …
Jul 02
Caveat Emptor: TMS as Snake Oil
On the eve of my next visit to the TMS Lab at Beth Israel in Boston*, I came upon this blog post: TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION FOR AUTISM I’ve added a comment to that post, so won’t repeat myself here, but I did want to point out the very valid caveats they list. They talk …