Of course, I’ll have to do a report on the year once again. I’ve doubted for a long time, and still doubt, whether to call it a “progress report”, like last year’s was or just a review, like the one from 2004. The distinction lies mostly in whether I considered the year successful or not. [...]
Archive for December, 2006
(Progress?) Report on 2006
Posted in Memories on December 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Confused and Frustrated Rants on the Mental Health Thing
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Personal, Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare, Training Home on December 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Today is a very confusing day and I’m dreading having to spend the whole week-end till Tuesday completely alone. I may go to my parents on Sunday, but I’m not quite looking forward to it as I’m so confused. Freaked out extremely majorly today. Broke seven objects – all mine. Broke the entire collection of [...]
School Rants
Posted in College / University, Personal on December 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I have nothing to do except for studying which I’ve been doing some but don’t feel like cause I was unable to sign up for the exams (first couldn’t, then forgot, then tried again but couldn’t and now the sign up period has expired) so may not be able to take them. I personally [...]
Is Anxiety Significant in the “Locked up Inside” Issue?
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties on December 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Is anxiety not something “significant” in the “locked up inside” issue? I seemed to imply something to that effect, but I didn’t mean it. Anxiety used to be an overemphasized factor – recently it’s been underemphasized -, but that is not synonymous with the seriousness being minimized. That happened, too, and I participated actively in [...]
Thoughts on Communicative Difficulties and Self-Expression
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties on December 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Today was a reasonably good day, though I am feeling kind of sad and am pretty tired cause I’m still experiencing significant insomnia – though, in Renee’s view, that seems to be my choice cause I refuse to ask the family doctor for sleep meds again. I don’t see it as any more than logical [...]
More Thoughts on the Contradiction between My Intelligence and Behaviour Problems
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Personal on December 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Has this contradiction, that I wrote about this afternoon, always been there, and has it always been to the same extent? The first question can simply be answered affirmatively. Well, no, it can’t, since I can’t remember all of my life, but for so far as I remember, it’s always been this way. That’s exactly [...]
Initial Thoughts on Cal Montgomery’s Critic of the Dawn
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Disability Advocacy, Personal on December 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There are a lot of things I want to write about today. Mostly, they are concerned with the strange dichotomy that Cal Montgomery discusses in her article Critic of the Dawn, where there is some line in cognitive or behavioural functioning, above which people are supposed to be good enough to have a voice that [...]
Family Doctor Appointment
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Health, Personal on December 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Well, just because I say it doesn’t take 100% clarity to clarify something, doesn’t mean I can practically clarify what I have clear, let alone that I can take the steps to communicating this – or the part of it that my family doctor needs to know. It didn’t work out at all today – [...]
Thoughts on a Seminar
Posted in Blindness, Personal on December 16, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Went to a seminar on social and emotional experiences of blind and visually impaired adolescents and young adults today. I was a participant in the research project in 2004 so was invited to the seminar. The results, as I’d already expected, were pretty positive: in most areas, blind and visually impaired adolescents and young adults [...]
“Realism” Meets Critical Psychiatry
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare on December 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I read this article from a very critical former mental health patient. I’ve always had strong opinions on this and am still an active advocate for the rights of people with psychiatric and developmental differences, so it shouldn’t be surprising, in this light, that I cannot do much but agree with this so-called “bad [...]
