New beginnings and focus for a new year. Recapping what I learned last year.
Tag Archives: mental health
How to Break and Remake a Person
An outline of my book for those interested.
Interest is required for memory encoding – it can be positive or negative
Hyperfocus brain is not always our friend when we feed it with bad information.
The limits of empathy – on compassion
Compassion is a logical, intuitive, or logically intuitive willingness to act with kindness toward someone else.
A brain that auto-solves
I have a black box brain a lot of the time, you throw random data in, it gives you a solution when doing something else. Passive problem solving.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names are trauma too
Social pain and physical pain aren’t that different. They hurt just as much to those who feel shame.
To Parents Who Home-School their ADHD or Autistic Children, and those that cannot.
The most important thing is you love your kid and try your best – that is the best you can do.
On the loss of autonomy and the danger of ABA, my family ‘ABA’ & my Father
Autonomy is the most vital thing for Autistic people’s safety. Respect it.
Rebuilding the citadel
Sometimes you can get yourself back – even after nearly three decades of forgetting who you are underneath.
What can happen when you eliminate stims
The dangers of elimination of stimming behaviour – be careful what you “wish” for.