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Harry Potter on Disablity
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...- Ylva
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Living in the Now
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... -
Bullies II
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... -
Bullies
?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... -
Languages
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... -
Empathy 2: Dealing
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... -
Truth
"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... -
Empathy
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... -
Motivation: update
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... -
Motivation, and how it is difficult.
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...