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4:36pm August 13, 2014

➸ Someone sent me a copy of "Thinking In Numbers".

madeofpatterns:

youneedacat:

I did not expect to like it. I am not a numerical thinker, I do share some synaesthesia with Daniel Tammet but he’s always struck me as someone whose basic thought processes are really hard for me to keep up with.

I am now three chapters in and totally enthralled.

One thing I love about this…

That reminds me how some people keep thinking my blog is an autism blog. It’s not. It’s a thoroughly autistic blog and it’s about my special interest in human interaction.

Similar for me, except not exactly the same special interest.  But it’s not an autism blog.  Even when it talks about autism, it’s not an autism blog.  It’s a blog by an autistic person about things of interest to that autistic person, whether those things happen to involve autism or not.  It’s not an autism blog, I’m an autistic blogger, and that’s all the difference in the world.

Notes:
  1. madeofpatterns reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Yes, exactly. I think there significant overlap in special interests that we blog about. From my perspective, more than...
  2. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    Similar for me, except not exactly the same special interest. But it’s not an autism blog. Even when it talks about...
  3. nicocoer said: Yes. I wish I could be as succinct. I did spot one or two factual errors but more in places that touched on my own interests in anthropology and history and stuff.
  4. chavisory said: Huh! I’ll check it out. “Born on a Blue Day” made me like him as a person even though I wasn’t crazy about his writing in that one.