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Blog entries by Geordie
I feel that everyone knows autism. Just type on your smartphone and you'll get a definition of autism. But people use this awareness of autism for their purposes, for better or for worse. I also feel that there are some things some people cannot adapt - this is also why I know many others don't...
The challenges of people I personally perceive include one or some of the following:
?I am superior to other people so I have the responsibility to do what I had been instructed to do?.
?I know what I am doing is definitely right. I do not think that certain ideas here work.?
?I...
Do you set a personal target for yourself?
While some (the top three people on the list especially) choose to challenge a certain level of artistic mastery, some choose to challenge a perceived unbreakable record (the four-minute mile). Some, though, want to win others.
The first, Tracy...
http://www.aspiescentral.com/blogs/spinning-compass/92-outliers-why-some-people-succeed-others-dont.html
I think we should focus on the ability of the autistic individuals, instead of the can't.
We are living in unprecedented tough times. Never before did unemployment rate soar up so high...
What the people want: No increase in the burden of living. No increases to living costs. Increases in standard of living.
What the top 1% does: Controlling wealth. Monopolizing industries. Cooped in their bureaucratic fantasies.
What 99% of the population get: Higher costs of living...
I always ask this question to organizations, where do you get your funding from?
School-based organisations will always say, the school granted me the money!
Then one of the autism groups I joined said they are funded by another autism group, which has a different strategic direction from...
That's what some thing my life is.
No, far from the truth.
Despite my family having one of the mere 10 Nissan GT-R R35 in both Singapore and Malaysia, and that most of my family members are doctors or working in lucrative healthcare professions, I have zero interest in nice cars, medicine...
What do you call the person of Chinese descent who actually feels like 'White'?
My grandmother, like many Singaporeans of Chinese descent, decided to use this description to me. Specifically, she called me 'Hin Jiu Lang', which just literally means, 'banana man'. Unlike her sons, I...
Used to be the case when I was an Apple fan. We owned every Apple stuff as soon as they were out. I am always happy whenever I got the freshest Apple gear.
However, after a few years using Apple, I always feel disappointed with the products I am using. I forgot that I paid tons of money...
My username suggests I live in North-east England.
My mannerisms suggest I am really into Japanese stuff, despite me not posting much about it.
I have the fantasies to visit the Rockies every night.
But I am still in Singapore.
Why do I feel slightly out of place in...
Recently, I spoke to a family friend, who is a Badger and Cardinal fan (he graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford Medical School).
We talked about some Big Ten football - how Michigan State and Wisconsin are cruising in their respective divisions (Legends and Leaders...
I thought Tuesday is even a sadder day than Monday.
Monday has already been a chore. It?s like lessons after lessons, work after work, and mindless thing after another mindless thing. I don?t know what?s next, other than maybe writing my pathetic situation to everyone.
My head is...
We can't stop autism genes from being identified, so that we can be extinct if people think having them is having too much of a risk to take...
But one thing we can do - now, while we are still alive, let's rediscover humanity...
And we now have a lack of it.
Because we choose to...
I do not belong to where I am today.
Singapore reminds me of Washington D.C - except that it's too uncomfortable to be considered as a 'home'. It can be quite intellectual for those who want to scratch beyond the surface, it can also be vibrant that is on par with the usual Asian cities. And...
I think poverty is the greatest deterrent to personal success. But after poverty, the biggest obstacle is the desire to have a coordinate effort for self-improvement in the Aspies.
With wealth, Bob Wright decided to try to cure his autistic grandchild. This is why we have (censored). What a...
I have unrealistically high expectations of autistic people functioning in the world and with their family, society, etc.
I wish for all members to optimize their performance, regardless of their stims and mannerisms and whatever, just to do what they can do to the world.
Even my parents...
(1) Focus on ability to do what society wants from us
(2) Having the ability to remain sane enough to have a few thoughts of our own
(3) Persist in having these thoughts when conditions are against us
(4) Have the ability to transcend
Many of us will not realise this...
An unnamed person diagnosed with autism (also my personal friend) in Singapore commented that Singaporeans are complacent, and keep blaming others (NTs) for their misfortune.
If Singaporean parents migrate to other overseas countries for better autism services regardless of their child's...
And so, personally as an admin of an autism forum, I will open all my reasons of disagreeing with some members on having attitudes that is detrimental for the good of our forum.
In the past and presently, I keep a black list of members who are not allowed to join the forum, based on past and...
I had this debate with a pro-Establishment Facebook user, True Blue Singaporean: Has Singaporean universities admitted too few students?
Consider the facts:
In Hong Kong, one-third of the high school level students do not get into university. In Singapore, the rate is half (if we include...