“Hey, is that….is that Ol’ Scarecrow? Nah, I never recognize anybody I’m supposed to, especially without hearing their voice. I’m just misrecognizing some extra or something. There’s no reason for Ol’ Scarecrow to even be in this movie.
“And now he’s gone. See? I was wrong.”
Archive for the ‘mistakes i've made’ Category
Dark Knight Thoughts
Posted in mistakes i've made, movies, tagged batman, cillian murphy, nonverbal learning disability, the dark knight on August 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Language Snafu: “Tantrum”
Posted in disabilities, mistakes i've made, tagged autism spectrum, meltdowns, toddlers on August 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Recently, abfh posted about the potential problems of using the word “meltdown” to describe responses to sensory overload:
Instead of using such negative and inaccurate language to describe our own behaviors and those of our children…we should take a proactive and non-stigmatizing approach and recognize that these problems are situational, rather than specifically autistic. When stress [...]
Options, Not Answers
Posted in books, disabilities, mistakes i've made, tagged community, nonverbal learning disability on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I was 17, I made a website I did it because, at the time, a lot of information about my diagnosis was in jargon-filled textbooks for neuropsychologists. Parsing it all really sucks–especially when you’re, like, 14 years old–and I wanted to explain some of this information in clearer language. I also wanted to explain [...]
Hard Parts
Posted in disabilities, mistakes i've made, words that annoy me, tagged autism spectrum, cognitive disability, intellectual disability, motor impairment, power, wheelchair use on April 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
[Image Description: A faceless person with brown hair parted cleanly down the middle. The back of the office chair she's sitting in is visible, and behind her you can see a white wall and a wooden door flung open with a plastic bag on the doorknob. In the lower left corner, you can see some [...]
Super Smash Bros. Adventure
Posted in disabilities, mistakes i've made, video games, tagged adventures, nonverbal learning disability, silliness, super smash bros on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Hey, do y’all have the new Super Smash Bros.?”
I can’t believe I’m asking this question. Fighting games aren’t exactly my favorite videogame genre. Sure, I fiddle with them sometimes—at 12, I rented Mortal Kombat II at the video store because “Hey! It’s the game Congress hates!”—but they aren’t much fun to play if you don’t [...]
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- RT @codeman38: It says something about society when "AS wives" is headline-ese for "wives of men with AS". 6 days ago
- Woot! #Transcript of @GameCritics podcast 25 is done. Go, me! #a11y 6 days ago
- Music break in the #transcript of @GameCritics podcast 25. (30 mins. left!) #a11y 1 week ago
