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The tipping point! Just enough coffee to go from a shambling mass of grey matter to a functioning individual.
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Today had all the makings of a bad day, but I managed to get through having just sort of a blah day. That’s a win. I’ll take it.
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I did get to play some Minecraft with Carl this afternoon, and it was a fun. We got a hopper working with a chicken, and played around with an automatic piston harvester. A great way to unwind after a long day.
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I don’t know which executive at either Sony or Microsoft is responsible for it, but they need to get on the stick and enable Realms for the PS4. I’d love to be able to work on this in VR. It’s frustrating to be unable to work on
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Muddlin’ through. Thinking about Minecraft helps. We have a realm, and I’ve slowly been building a palace complex since the pandemic started. It’s a little overwhelming, actually, and hard to get started on sometimes, but once I find a little section to work on, I’ll happily tinker
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The happy sounds of the boys playing together, loud, high-pitched yawlps of joy, clashing with the tinny voice from my wife’s FaceTime call with her best friend, and I’m pacing in the kitchen, unable to find an eye of calm between two sensory storms.
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Today's Super Mario Odyssey infodump clocked in at 80 minutes. 😳 All of it information that he has gleaned about a game he has never played.
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Uncertainty drives anxiety, sensory issues in autism | Spectrum | Autism Research News
“Autistic children want to have control over their environment, to make it more predictable,” says lead researcher Elizabeth Pellicano, professor of psychology and human development at the University of London. Helping children learn to draw from past experiences to better predict the outcome of future situations may quell their anxiety
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Autistic Twitter
I posted something about my Autism to Twitter the other morning. I’ve been really amazed by the autistic community on Twitter, and it is getting me more into using Twitter as my social media. I’d already been getting into it more by switching from Tweetbot to the official
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Autistic in the Pandemic: A Call to Action
What I’d like you to consider doing: write a poem, letter, essay, paragraph, sentence, bullet list or record a video or audio statement or create a work of art or music or photography—in some way express yourself to others on this theme: how I have learned to take
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Alexithymia & autism guide | Embrace ASD
Have you heard about Alexithymia? Primary alexithymia is a lifelong condition, caused by childhood trauma or negative primary caregivers interactions. So primary alexithymia develops early, and becomes molded during childhood and early adult years as personality traits. Hence primary
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30 years after Prozac arrived, we still buy the lie that chemical imbalances cause depression
Some 2,000 years ago, the Ancient Greek scholar Hippocrates argued that all ailments, including mental illnesses such as melancholia, could be explained by imbalances in the four bodily fluids, or “humors.” Today, most of us like to think we know better: Depression—our term for melancholia—is caused by