Labels don’t modify a situation, they might just clarify it, so is the whole ASD thingy that recently emerged – note that this is after ten months of being at training home -, something about changing paradigms, or is it about conflicting paradigms? I must say I begin to think it’s the latter, in that [...]
Archive for November, 2006
My Reality in the ASD Issue
Posted in Autism, Personal on November 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Comments on a Recently Emergent ASD Paradigm and My Family’s Views
Posted in Autism, Personal on November 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Spoke my parents and sister this evening. My mother was the first to call me and was really vague about how I was doing at training home, why I was behaving badly and all. She said Renee had called, and I wondered what she’d said. On Friday, I agreed to a recent plan to contact [...]
Helping vs. Just Being Nice and Confused Thoughts about Yesterday’s Discussion at School
Posted in Blindness, College / University, Personal on November 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, I was having a very difficult discussion with Elma, Dannie and Arda. It started out with the usual studying stuff and that not being too difficult and blahblahblah. Well, tell me something I didn’t know yet. Then it got down to the social side of it all. For some reason, I’ve been thinking forever [...]
Different Approaches to “Realism”
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Memories on November 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday as I found myself thinking about college/university programmes, living arrangements (not written about that but I thought about it) and the actual situation with my social/behavioural problems, ie. “realism”, I realized that “realism” can be looked upon in several ways:
Collecting every little detail about my situation, from my high school GPA calculated to three [...]
College Planning Updates
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, College / University, Personal on November 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Requested journalism flyers from Windesheim (Zwolle) and Utrecht’s School of Journalism. The former turns out to have a less strict selection procedure than I thought: it is something called a “numerus fixus” programme, which means students will be selected based on lot, but the website says mostly all students will be enrolled and I might [...]
Political Quizzes and Comments
Posted in Memes, Politics and Current Events on November 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
You Are 40% Politically Radical
You’ve got a few unusual political ideas, but overall you’re a pretty mainstream person. Chances are that you’re turned off by both the radical right and
looney left.
Are You a Political Radical?
The Socialist Party is considered radical left in the Netherlands – at least, now that it has 25 seats (probably lost [...]
How Do You Live Your Life? (Quiz)
Posted in Memes on November 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Scarily accurate. Except the thing about a best friend – I have no friends, but quizzes never ever get it that there *are* people out there who really are too unsociable for that, so I always pretend I have friends when it’s needed to fill out questionnaires.
How You Live Your Life
You seem to be straight [...]
Social/Behavioural Problems and College Planning: “Realism” vs. Making Decisions
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, College / University, Personal on November 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Went to Saxion’s open house today and read info flyers with Jutta. I feel kind of confused about this, cause, even though I was doing alright today, I know that in general I’m not functioning all that fine and this is not completely a new thing. Really, is college/university going to be about “realism” [...]
Thoughts on Theories about My Behaviour and Confusion about My Situation
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Personal, Training Home on November 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This week has been rather confusing on the personal front. Of course, I’ve been confused for months and that’s what I keep highlighting when people react only to my angry outbursts – that have been rather frequent and serious this week -, but this whole thing can’t be separated into so many different pieces: my [...]
Post-Election Comments
Posted in Politics and Current Events on November 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
So, the elections are over and the votes have almost been counted. The SP got 26 seats!!! I’m not sure how they’re going to do this, as the members number 25-29 were different for each region, but at least, we now have 26 people in the Lower House. Isn’t this great?
Unfortunately, Labour lost ten seats [...]
