Where is the line with you? At what point do you feel free enough to unleash internet rage unto others? Does your aggression on the internet lead to an increased sense of inhibition in the real world? An old study out of the University of Illinois asserts that there is no link between video … Continue reading »
Tag Archives: Autism
Six Hundred-odd Words
What I am presenting to you contains six-hundred, sixty-six words. As this is pure evil at its most relevant and distressing, take heed therein. Lift smoking bans. The cigarette kind. Make it obvious the effects on longterm exposure to secondhand smoke. Deviate from present location if smoke found to be too uncomfortable. Again. We get … Continue reading »
Gaining the Confidence to Proceed Without Instruction
In the hospital, your mother parted her legs and squeezed with great might. A sound started to be heard, not just her screaming, but you. It was your voice. That is of course after the mucus plug was pulled from your mouth and you began to breathe on your own. For the first time, she … Continue reading »
Helping Out
Today I watched a man get struck by a truck. Hey, that has a nice rhyme to it… Anyway, my wife gave me the go-ahead to pull over and race to the patient. He was on his back, barely breathing. His eyes were open and fixed in a point out in space. The patient was … Continue reading »
Publishing a Book and Accepting Imperfection
In early 2012, I published my first book. I wanted to write about it because of the lingering feeling it is not completed, hopefully conveying to authors (or those aspiring to authorship) to know nothing like a book is ever really done or perfect the way we want it. I need to start off by … Continue reading »
Autistic Internet
My last article infuriated a lot of people. I gathered this from information given to me via an Internet connection, an electron flow narrowed to a very specific area – my eye. Each letter of the critical paragraphs singed my neurons, creating new connections in me. But I also realized I also affected others in … Continue reading »
Musicianship and Mastery – You Don’t Know ‘Jazz’ Sh*t
For over twenty years I’ve been a defiant musician in the sense I know how to keep practicing despite the dry spells of gigs, those paying well I mean. Jazz isn’t a term everyone uses when describing music, but I’ve come to a certain humility about the genre that begs the question of all American … Continue reading »
Autism and Hoarding – A Connection?
To the left is a desk stacked with books. Look right, and witness a pile of backpacks. There are instruments in the other room – a lot of them. It paints an awfully big picture of disorganization. But there’s a catch… It all gets used. This is at least true in my house, where objects … Continue reading »
Confessions: A Brief but Autistic Life
I take for granted the days that pass by with the least amount of stress. It’s easy to do since they feel so decent, even if there is nothing particularly eventful that has happened. But I’ll tell you the lesson I’ve learned about my life at the age of 26 that reminds me how young … Continue reading »
How to Start, Join, and Maintain Your (my) Cult
Say we have a great idea for a company and that it should involve other people buying our product. We look about only to find we haven’t much material available to us formable into a thing to give them. Thus, we find our first roadblock. Yet we are smart and charismatic enough to be the … Continue reading »
