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Blog entries by Ylva
Rowling has said that werewolves are her metaphors for HIV-positive people. They are shunned and the condition can be transferred to someone else and that's pretty much it, because HIV-positive people don't turn into monsters in the moonlight, and Rowling really doesn't seem to be trying to...
I tend to live one day at a time. It makes a lot of things more manageable. (It also means I don't end up laying many plans, although there's no logical reason why, so I probably could just start planning.)
I don't live completely in the Now, as it is often overwhelming and requires meticulous...
Another way to render my bullies insignificant in my perspective, is to evaluate their intelligence. Based on their behaviour. Yes, this is a good thing.
Obviously, someone who can only make themselves feel good about themselves by putting someone else down has the intellectual capacity of...
?are bad people, and I'm going to forgive myself for being so unforgiving that I don't give mine the benefit of having been young and stupid (with emphasis on stupid) at the time.
I was no saint, but I don't think I should have had to be. When your whole class gangs up on you and you defend...
Shelving empathy for the time being, let me talk about languages.
I want to learn all of them. ALL of them. I want to be able to read and write and listen to them, in that order. Speaking may or may not be a by-product of understanding.
Focusing primarily on vocabulary, since it is...
No, I'm not done dissecting this.
I was just reading a few more chapters of Aspergirls, and more or less realised there were two ways to handle the social parts ? that I hadn't seriously considered yet, anyway. I have already tried behaving NT-ish, doing what is expected of me and just being...
"People rarely say what they mean, but they do."
And I envy people who can read non-verbal, those who have body language literacy ? those who pay attention to it, I mean, not those who merely take a lucky guess based on their gut-feeling. I wish I could do what they do. And, I think, there...
How does one feel what another person feels? I feel like I do, but it doesn't make any sense. It's not my nervous system, it is someone else's, and I don't see how their nerves can send signals to my brain.
The answer is quite obviously that they can't; that's me sending signals to my brain...
One question that turned out to work in the desired way: "Where is that book about reading people that I saw here not two weeks ago?" Before long, I had sorted through the piles of books on my bedroom floor and put them in the bookcase.
I can eat new food if I ask myself what it will taste...
Sometimes, I think that my problem with getting motivated is my focus on getting motivated. I will concentrate on generating motivation to do something, rather than actually doing that thing. I know it seems obviously counter-productive and I should stop doing that and start doing something that...