Special interest

The benefits of special interests for autistic & hyperlexic learners & why it's so important to encourage them

School at its best creates an environment to mold young minds, however some of the more creative minds have other ideas about what school should be. Not everyone has the focus required for traditional educational settings and this can lead to some more out-of-the-box thinking. Thomas Edison, one of the most famous, inventors of all time dropped out of school due to his “wandering mind” and luckily for him and us that story turned out just fine.

ESFJ

In trying to make sense of the world around us, our brains have evolved to do some very odd things. The more we learn about our cognitive processes, the more it seems we have inherited a very weird wetware set, filled with bizarre and misleading foibles. While most of the cognitive errors I reference here…Read More

Neurotypical people often misunderstand autistic people and attach hidden social meaning to our traits where there is none.

When I first read about Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria I was like "Wow. That's exactly what I experienced." There's still a lot of research being done about RSD* and while it is not something that you can be diagnosed with, it is a way to describe symptoms and it resonates with a lot of people -