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Monday, August 27, 2012

Cat

Here's a picture of Magic that I took recently:

Posted by Lindsay at 3:19 PM

Labels: cats, photos

1 comment:

Unknown said...: What a cute kitty!; August 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM

A Portrait of the Autist

Lindsay: Kansas, United States; I'm a recent KU graduate with degrees in biochemistry and English lit. I'm also on the autism spectrum, having been diagnosed with PDD-NOS at age 5. It's quite likely that, were I to be seen now, I'd be diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. I write about a lot of things, which include but are not limited to: autism research, psychology, neuroscience, feminism, autism advocacy/neurodiversity, autism in literature, and broad, sweeping cultural critique. I also draw, paint and take the occasional random picture. Spam and abusive comments meet the icy-cold fury of my deleting finger.

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Books I've Reviewed

Austin Grossman - Soon I Will Be Invincible
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland
Cordelia Fine - Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Daniel Tammet - Born on a Blue Day
Dawn Prince-Hughes - Songs of the Gorilla Nation
Elizabeth Moon - The Speed of Dark
John V. Fleming - The Dark Side of the Enlightment: Wizards, Alchemists and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason
Keiko Tobe - With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child (Vol. 1)
Larry Niven - The Integral Trees
Lisa Appignanesi - Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors
Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
Marilyn French - The Women's Room
Marti Leimbach - Daniel Isn't Talking
Nancy Kress - Beggars in Spain
Robert Minor - Scared Straight: Why It's So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It's So Hard to Be Human
Roy Richard Grinker - Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism
Temple Grandin - Animals in Translation
Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (1)
Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (2)

Serial Posts

Sometimes I have so much to say about a given topic that I'll do a series of posts on it. I've gathered those serial posts here, and listed them in order.

Employment Issues in Autism

Employment Issues in Autism: Executive Summary
Employment Issues in Autism I: Finding and Holding a Job
Employment Issues in Autism II: A Look at the Literature
Employment Issues in Autism III: Trends
Employment Issues in Autism IV: Recommendations

Disagreeing by Diagnosing

Criticism by Armchair Diagnosis
More on Disagreeing by Diagnosing
Conservautism, Revisited
More Disagreeing by Diagnosing: the Aspie-in-Chief

Neurodiversity and Feminist Theory

Executive Summary
Part I
Part II
Part III

The Autist's Picks

100 Fires
A Photon in the Darkness
Abnormaldiversity
Alice Miller
American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT)
Amy's Tiny Corner of Existence
Andrea Dworkin Online Library
Andrea's Buzzing About
Anne Taintor, Inc.
Archive of the Biting Beaver
Asperger Square 8
Aspie Rhetor
Aspitude!
Astrid's Journal
Autism Crisis
autistics.org
Ballastexistenz
Biodiverse Resistance
Body Impolitic
British Psychological Society Research Digest Blog
Casaubon's Book
Child Psychology Research Blog (formerly Translating Autism)
Clarissa's Blog
Comet's Corner (Clay Adams)
Context and Variation
Cracked Mirror in Shalott
Cracking the Enigma
Daisy's Dead Air
Derrick Jensen
Diary of a Goldfish
Disability Scoop
dkmnow
Donna Williams's 'Blog
Echidne of the Snakes
Existence Is Wonderful
Fannie's Room
Fat-Fu
Feminist Reprise Library
Feminist SF
Feministe
First, Do No Harm
flip flopping joy
FRIDA
FWD/Forward
Green Is the New Red
Green Party Watch
HandiCAPEable
Here Be Dragons
Hexpletive
I Blame the Patriarchy
I Still Find It So Hard ...
I'm Somewhere Else
Incorrect Pleasures
Interverbal
JournalWatch
Journeys with Autism
Junkfood Science
Just Stimming
Katy Doesn't Live in Smithton
Left Brain/Right Brain
Life with Asperger's
LOVE-NOS
Matt's Corner
Modus Dopens
Molecular Autism
Morton Gernsbacher's Lab
Mosaic of Minds
Natural Variation - Autism Blog
neurodiversity.com
Neuroskeptic
No Autistics Allowed
No Stereotypes Here - Neurodiversity Activist Blog
On SFARI
Once Upon a Time...
Pandagon
Perpetually Myself
Poetic Propaganda (cripchick)
Professor, What If?
Project Gutenberg
Psychiatry and History
QuackWatch
Radical Divergence Speaking
Reports from a Resident Alien
Research Blogging
Respectful Insolence
RH Reality Check
Sasha Said
Shakesville
Skeptifem
The Alternate Lexicon
The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN)
The Biology Files
The Bitch Who Roared (Linda Radfem)
The Neurocritic
The Quixotic Autistic
The Standard Review
The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
The Vibrating Square
The View from Hell
The Voyage: Life with autism in Northern Ireland
this ain't livin'
Urocyon's Meanderings
What Sorts of People
Who Is IOZ?
Whose Planet Is It Anyway?
Womanist Musings
wrtAUTISM
XX Blaze

Autism - Nonfiction

Daniel Tammet - Born on a Blue Day
Dawn Prince-Hughes - Songs of the Gorilla Nation
Donna Williams - Nobody Nowhere
Jean Kearns Miller - Women from Another Planet?
Roy Richard Grinker: Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism
Temple Grandin - Animals in Translation
Temple Grandin - Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

Autism in Fiction

Austin Grossman - Soon I Will Be Invincible
Elizabeth Moon - The Speed of Dark
Keiko Tobe - With the Light (series)
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Feminist Literature

Alice Walker - Possessing the Secret of Joy
Andrea Dworkin - Intercourse
Andrea Dworkin - Pornography: Men Possessing Women
Ariel Levy - Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Infidel
Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English - For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
Carol Tavris - The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex or the Opposite Sex
Carolyn Jessop - Escape
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland
Cordelia Fine - Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference
Germaine Greer - The Female Eunuch
Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, eds. - Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape
Jessica Valenti - The Purity Myth
Kate Millett - The Loony-Bin Trip
Marilyn French - The Women's Room
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth
Natalie Angier - Woman: An Intimate Geography
Nawal El Saadawi - The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World
Nawal El Saadawi - Woman at Point Zero
Phyllis Chesler - Women and Madness
Shulamith Firestone - The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
Susan Bordo - Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body
Susan Brownmiller - Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Susan Brownmiller - Femininity
Susan Faludi - Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Historical Interest and Social Commentary

Andrew Goliszek - In The Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research and Human Experimentation
Ann Fessler - The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Barbara Ehrenreich - Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America
bell hooks - killing rage: Ending Racism
Bernard Lefkowitz - Our Guys
Dan Agin - Junk Science: How Politicians, Corporations, and Other Hucksters Betray Us
Daniel Quinn - Ishmael
David Hadju - The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
Derrick Jensen - The Culture of Make Believe
Dmitry Orlov - Reinventing Collapse
Edwin Black - War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
Jared Diamond - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jerry Mander - Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Jerry Mander - In The Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations
Kevin Phillips - American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
Lisa Appignanesi - Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors
Michael Kimmel - Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
Michael Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Philip Slater - The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point
Richard Heinberg - Peak Everything
Robert Whitaker - Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Stephen Jay Gould - The Mismeasure of Man
Susan Faludi - The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
William H. Whyte Jr. - The Organization Man

Socially Conscious Sci-Fi

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
George Orwell - 1984
Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood - The Year of the Flood
Nancy Kress - Beggars and Choosers
Nancy Kress - Beggars in Spain
Nancy Kress - Beggars Ride
Neal Stephenson - Zodiac
Octavia Butler - Kindred
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Sheri S. Tepper - Gibbon's Decline and Fall
Sheri S. Tepper - The Gate to Women's Country
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Word for World Is Forest
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We

Important Documents (Available Online)

Amanda Baggs - "Help! I Seem to be Getting More Autistic!"
Amy Nelson - Declaration From the Autism Community That They Are a Minority Group
Autobiography of Anonymous
Auton v. British Columbia
Jim Sinclair - Why I Dislike "Person First" Language
John McEachin, Tristram Smith and Ivar Lovaas - Long-Term Outcome for Children With Autism Who Received Early Intensive Behavioral Treatment
Laura Tisoncik - Why I Am Angry
Leo Kanner - Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact
Mark P. Mostert - Useless Eaters: Disability as Genocidal Marker in Nazi Germany
Michelle Dawson - The Misbehavior of Behaviorists
Michelle Dawson v. Canada Post Corporation
O. Ivar Lovaas (1987) - Behavioral Treatment and Normal Educational and Intellectual Functioning in Young Autistic Children
Oryx Cohen - Psychiatric Survivor Oral Histories: Implications for Contemporary Mental Health Policy
Robert Altemeyer - The Authoritarians
Simon Baron-Cohen - The Extreme-Male-Brain Theory of Autism
TASH - Resolution on the Right to Communicate
Temple Grandin - Choosing the Right Job for People with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome