Monthly Archives: November 2011
Networking for Aspies
I just spent two hours at an alumni event hosted by my law school, to see an old professor and partly to network. It should not come as a surprise that I hate traditional “networking,” particularly in the context of … Continue reading
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Fixating
I know that the ability to get really absorbed in a topic of interest can be adaptive and that non-Autistic people tend to exaggerate how problematic our interests are, but… I actually kinda hate my episodes of hyperfocus. I don’t … Continue reading
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People-First Language
This is my first entry using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. My apologies for any dictation errors that I don’t catch – if you catch any, please alert me in the comments. Since I’ve started reading Autistic blogs, I’ve been surprised by how … Continue reading
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More on Misinterpretation of Social Psychology
I sort of briefly mentioned in my last post how people (including the researchers themselves) tend to misinterpret social psychology. Here’s a pretty good (and only tangentially autism-related) example: Researchers at the University of Nebraska recruited seventy-two undergrads to participate … Continue reading
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Social Psychologist Admits Faking Results
Diederik Stapel, a prominent Dutch social psychologist, has admitted to fabricating data for dozens of published studies, as has been reported by New Scientist and Nature. The full report on the extent of Stapel’s fraud is in Dutch, so I … Continue reading
Sleep
This week has been very busy. I’ve been meaning to post something about the ASAN 5-year celebration, which was awesome, or my thoughts on hanging out with the neat Autistic people that I met there. But right now, all I … Continue reading
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Why I say I have Asperger’s
As I’ve noted before, I’ve found it far more difficult to come out to people as having Asperger’s than as having any of the other diagnoses I’ve received, and many other people have encountered similar issues. I think this is … Continue reading
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The Psychology of Cover-Ups
Time Magazine has a great article on the psychology of cover-ups in the context of the recent events at Penn State (trigger warning for discussions of sexual abuse). Here is a choice snippet: When the actions of a group are … Continue reading
Laws and principles: not the same thing
I’m pretty pleased that the Mississippi’s Proposition 26 (also known as the “personhood amendment”) did not pass. Not just because I’m pro-choice (although I am), but because it was exactly the sort of law that tends to be really horrible … Continue reading
Going incognito
I was raised on weird Czech fairytales. One of them – which is also prominent in Russia – goes something like this: A king sent his three sons on a mission to obtain the beautiful Firebird. The youngest son befriended … Continue reading
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