Neurodiversity

I read this book yesterday that had an interesting idea. (It was interesting all over, but I wanna talk about this one thing.) NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, by Steve Silberman. Concept: Neurodiversity. Idea is basically everybody has different brains and that is good because we are good at different things. The author wants us to think about this in terms of Autistic people (everyone else too, but he was writing about Autistic people. And also history.). Continue reading

Another Walk

It was one in the afternoon. I’d been on video chat, GMing Pokemon, since eight thirty.

My computer was just shut down, my face washed, the sunlight blinked at, blearily. My brain was in fifteen places, and none of them were in the real world. And there were things to be accomplished, things that normally would have been done in the morning. Continue reading