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The Autumn Wind
- Author Geordie
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I think my mental model is still limited to the East, despite much exposure to other cultures here on AC. We still have implicit gender discrimination in Asia, though we try to empower ladies. Men go on to become politicians, Court-appointed judges and Directors of hospital departments, all at...
Looks un-Aspie?
Since fashion is a social construct, and Asperger's is a disorder that seems to affect social functioning, we're going to take a dig at society. After all, they seem more interested to exclude us Aspies just because of what we consistently do that society does not seem to...
SMRT claims its purpose is 'moving people, enhancing lives'. Given that SMRT began to experience the effects of ageing infrastructure and train breakdowns, I start to doubt SMRT's ability to do well in the current monopolistic business environment it operates in.
Enhancing lives in the...
I am still 'lost' because I am not sure where to go, especially that my portfolio mainly consists of volunteering in school-based settings for special needs people, or disparate interests from board games, economics to music. But so far, they'd all been good.
My own mostly positive...
Recently, I attended a seminar on the purpose of life.
I always wanted to do things what others around me cannot do.
In my society, there are a few tiers of talent. One tier is made up of those who can't even get into technical institutes, another tier is made up of those in technical...
I feel sad when 4 of my friends, all Aspies, left me in the past 2 years for 'greener pastures'.
I have a few friends who gave me good vibes. I feel sad that they left.
Tom is an American-born classmate who studied in Singapore for 8 years. He decided to return to the States to study...
I realised I am a result of my circumstances. I can only be as good as what I am, as well as how I deal with expectations in changing environments.
Since I am living in an Eastern society, where family and clan are important, we are benchmarked against a clan, no?
In my clan, made up of my...
Working Twice As Hard To Be Seen As Half Normal - Blogs - Aspies Central - Asperger's Syndrome and Autism Forums
I do not agree that I should work to be half normal.
If normalcy is our goal, and we know when we did our best, we'll only achieve half normalcy, then it's really something to...
I dare to say:
If we ASDs choose to be ignorant, then we'll be at the mercy of ignorance.
Inconsistent, incoherent and inept. These are the three adjectives I'd use to describe some ignorant Aspies on our common issue.
We do not see the bigger picture. Can't blame us, we're all Aspies...
An issue I face in Pathlight School is the issue of names.
I don't like to be called by my real name. When people do a Google search on my name, we get a statement stating I have Autism. My parents are not really willing to expose my conditions to the world. I know the limits autism pose on...
After 2 years of joining AC, some things still don't change, there are a few issues that our country's (Singapore's) special needs community as a whole may still not resolve at the moment, so that we can contribute to our country better:
1. Higher education
Singapore's universities...
I feel that where awareness fails, not saying about our conditions will gain us a higher probability of acceptance, assuming our achievements come first before. And don't we need acceptance for the good we do?
Eventually, our aim is to create enough societal acceptance for us to live - and...
I fell out with Megatron, my arch-rival. He says when one is not great, he cannot bring acceptance for his being as a person. He doesn't accept substandard work, even if they're the best the person can give.
Doesn't he know that some people are just struggling to survive? Try being unemployed...
The world seems to need division of labour and specialisation, though they are incomplete, without a basic core of values to guide them along, in order to survive.
DPM Tharman commented on a speech that in Singapore and in many industrialized countries, a general degree is ''less highly...
Before I attend my PSE (my term for Aspie, representing People with special experiences) support group meets, I almost always ask myself a few questions:
1. Why do we have the need to form an adult PSE group?
2. What are our goals, as individual PSEs?
3. What stops us from our goals...
I made a lot of new friends in Pathlight. Due to confidentiality issues, I cannot give their real names, but they are all great people.
There is a student called Bob, who designs websites and loves politics. It has been great fun and pleasure listening to his interests. His intellect level...
I also think Aspies and Auties should be allowed to lead extraordinary lives, regardless of their current and eventual outcomes.
I do see this every day in Pathlight School, a school for people with ASDs, where I currently volunteer.
Pathlight School students have their share of daily...
I enjoy reading this quote.
'I'd rather be hated for what I am, than to be loved for what I am not'
- This is a classic quote by my favourite singer, Kurt Cobain. His style of angry grunge music expressed the frustrations of Generation X (those growing up in the early 1990's) and later...
Written by Keng Ann Yap, Tigris and another contributor in a forum, but I have to share these views here because it's simply too controversial to be put on a thread.
A friend of mine asked me for my views about this article which offers an insight into the challenges faced by young people...
I confess:
I believe some of my friends are leading lives that they don't examine much. And they think it is still worthwhile.
Sometimes you have to ask yourself, why live life the way you do. Why do we do this, why do we do that, what do we want to achieve in our lives.
So I ask...