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prillalar ([personal profile] prillalar) wrote2005-03-15 09:20 pm
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A bear of very little brain.

Some days, it's easier to write fic than to think of something interesting to say. And some days I can't even do that.

The plan for the evening was to work on some Whistle! fic. That turned into a few hours of trying to get inside the head of Fuwa. To that end, I'm listening to Tool (usually reserved for debugging code and reading about QM) and reading up on Asperger's Syndrome.

I took the Autism-Spectrum Quotient test and scored 33. According to Wired: eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. Hmm.

When I was on my iMac earlier, I googled "Fuwa Daichi" and the second result was my own LJ userinfo page. I just did the same search from the iBook and my page isn't anywhere in the first six pages. Bizarre.

Last night we watched The Corbomite Maneuver. It was noteworthy for the number of times Kirk took his shirt off and then called Spock on the videophone. Also, Clint Howard.

In conclusion, if I could draw, I would draw a picture of Momoshiro and Kaidoh in tuxedos, with white ties and cummerbunds. Kaidoh would be grabbing Momo by the lapel and scowling at him. Momo would be leaning in with a mischievous look on his face and we would know that one second later, they would be kissing, but we weren't going to get to see it ourselves.

Maybe I'll just think about that for a while.
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[identity profile] neeteeus.livejournal.com 2005-03-16 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
I have several students on my caseload who have Asperger's, and many of them have a father who has Asperger's also. It's been fascinating getting to know that particularly part of the population. Most of them are incredibly good with language and mathematics, but have difficulties with gross motor or fine motor skills, and all the students can tell that there's just something a little bit off about them. For the most part they're really great to work with, because they interact on a more mature level than most kids their age. I can use the same language with my three Grade 2 boys who have Asperger's as I would with an adult. And I better not change the schedule around, because they know and I get heck for it. =D

Autism as a whole is fascinating. I have some kids who are completely non-verbal, almost catatonic, and then the Asperger's kids who are more like geniuses with bad social skills, and everything in between. You never know what you're going to find.
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[personal profile] prillalar 2005-03-16 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
The Wired article was about how there's a higher incidence of autism and Asperger's in Silicon Valley, which is quite interesting. Whenever I read about Asperger's, I find things that I recognise in myself -- not to the same extent, I don't think, but enough that it makes me wonder. From what I read, a lot of IT geeks feel the same.

[identity profile] neeteeus.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
*nods* I totally read the article, or one similar to it. They were making the point that having two parents who were techno geeks seemed to increase the incidence of autism, implying that IT geeks have a higher incidence of Asperger's.

It's quite fascinating. In today's world people with Asperger's can really thrive because there is a demand for people to work isolated from others, who are good with detail. Techology has made leaps and bounds. I also head an Assistive Tech program to recommend specialized computer equipment for kids who just can't meet the demands of the class with regular intervention. One of our greatest discoveries was Microsoft Powerpoint. =D A lot of the kids with Asperger's just /dreaded/ making presentations in front of the class. It was a real challenge for them. But give them a laptop, a projector, and Powerpoint? No problem. And because they usually are great with detail, they take to the technology like a fish to water.

Another thing which always blows my mind about autism is the way in which it seems to appear in waves. Current thinking has it that you need a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental stimulus for the condition to develop. So we have, like, a bunch of kids in grade 2 with autism. Then a bunch of kids in grade 5. And a bunch of kids in grade 11. And nothing in between; or if there are, they're from out of town. They used to think that one of the stimulus might be a bad batch of vaccines, for example...although I think that theory has been proven wrong.

Anyway, I have to get to work. =D
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