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[Kerry] Maths, Systems Thinking and Pedagogy
Many people here, including me, are holistic, nonlinear thinkers who see things as conceptual wholes, rather than as sequential, step-by-step processes. It’s not about hierarchies; it’s about ‘soups’,...
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[Em] Invisible and Visible Effort
Sorry we haven’t been blogging much; we’ve been incredibly busy with school-related stuff. For a lot of autistic folks, their effort is “invisible”—that is, even though someone is trying their very...
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[Kerry] Autism and the Ideal Student™ Construct
A lot of teachers, educational staff and university admissions officers have this image of what an ‘ideal student’ should be. I think you all know the type? Perfect or near-perfect GPAs, dozens of...
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[Kerry, James and Darwin] Articles that you should probably read.
‘I Was One of the Scary Kids‘ at Cracked Mirror in Shalott (content warning: abuse, violence, Newtown shootings) ‘Autism, Empathy and the “R-Word“‘, at Thirty Days of Autism ‘Change Only Comes to...
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[Kerry and James] Thoughts on language-learning.
People who know us well know that studying foreign languages is one of our favourite hobbies. We’ve studied, or attempted to study, about seven or eight languages (Spanish, French, German, Romanian,...
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[Kerry] About writing, and direction, and labels, and other sorts of things.
So, we’ve got a paper due this week. The introduction’s in place, but the rest of it isn’t. I don’t think we’re quite at the point where we need an extension, but we’ve had a harder time writing stuff...
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[Kerry] Autistic Ability Stereotypes
There is just one stereotype about autistic people that will not die: the idea that we’re all geniuses at maths, technology and science. I think some of this comes from the stereotyped, sexist ideas...
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