Category: Autism
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Object-thinkers vs. Relation-thinkers
Recently I published my in-depth article on kinship. Shortly afterward I began reading Nelson Goodman’s Ways of Worldmaking (1978). Goodman’s hypothesis is that people create their own worlds through the use of language, and we verify these worlds through language. It recalled a discussion I had recently with a friend who’s an avid reader of…
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An Autistic Message to RFK
I have an intuition that RFK is wrong about Autism. For now, it’s mostly an intuition. But it’s a strong one. I know ‘intuition’ isn’t an the autistic brain’s specialty, but anyway… (For context, RFK thinks Autism is due to vaccines and is an unnecessary disability hampering many families. For the purpose of this post,…