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12:42am January 24, 2012

➸ "You don't need this junk. You need a cat.": Yay my doctor is a geek!

theskinofourteeth:

youneedacat:

chavisory:

youneedacat:

I’ve been telling people for ages that autism is, at core, about  perception, thinking, and movement (and the interplay of all that), not  socialization, communication, and repetitive behavior.

To me, if I had to pick three, it’s about perception (including all sensory varieties), information processing, and language usage and language/emotion interplay.

I tell people all the time, if they ask me to tell them something about what it’s like, that the main thing to know is that it’s not primarily a disorder of socialization—that all of the social issues are only superficial consequences of the much more basic sensory and information processing issues.

Does anybody else think or feel that aside from inhabiting our bodies differently, we experience and inhabit time and memory differently?

Yeah I actually consider those things part of thinking and perception, or I’d have named them as well. (Plus there’s no clear boundaries between even the things I mentioned.)  About time and memory — definitely very different than usual for me at any rate.

Oh and the people who wrote the article use the term movement in an unusual way, that actually encompasses memory. Two of them wrote a book where they made a chart talking about what they did mean. I’ll try to find a copy and post it to my Tumblr in a minute. 

I have a half-finished draft somewhere in my head about liminal spaces and autism.

I am interested in hearing people talk about this.

What are liminal spaces?