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9:50pm April 30, 2013

➸ Trying to find the right words: That autism survey.

am-i-autistic:

josiahd:

am-i-autistic:

josiahd:

youneedacat:

I also have a strong interest in something that doesn’t have a word. Or at least, I don’t like most of the words people usually use for it. Ethics, maybe. But not as a field of academic study. More like…

What I’m doing has no name. If it has a name, a tidy definition, a scholarly following of any kind, it’s not even remotely the same thing. My ex has a girlfriend who studied ethics and he told me another name for it but I don’t trust kinds of ethics with names. Things with names mess up reality.

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  1. karalianne reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I think people try to give words to this sort of thing because they’re used to using words to explain things and to...
  2. quixylvre reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  3. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    I know that at the core it’s outside words. At least what I’m doing is. And that’s not a function of how my brain works....
  4. bands-ruined-my-life-k reblogged this from madeofpatterns
  5. twocentsormore reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    I just kind of spontaneously got the thought of, “If you can name what you think I’m doing with some term that someone...
  6. clatterbane reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    /ETA I think I (at least partly) understand what you and josiahd have been talking about, and it’s somewhat similar to...
  7. autisticbisexualsokka reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I’m probably just wrong about everything. I’m sorry for interrupting.
  8. adelened reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    I think what people are getting at is that they’re not totally different things - they’re both asking the same question,...