Butterfly feet Warm Fuzzies In first grade, our class took a field trip to the local health center to learn about feelings. They called them “warm fuzzies” and “cold pricklies.” The other kids seemed to know exactly what the teacher meant. They talked about love, jealousy, fear, anger. They had words for everything. I didn’t….
Category: Neurodiversity
Quiet Mind: Aphantasia, Anendophasia, and What Do You Mean You Hear Voices?
Turns out my brain’s a minimalist; while others visualize, I just see a blank canvas—great for art, terrible for teleporting!
Autism, Approval, and Impostor Syndrome
Hans the Mathematical Horse In turn of the 1900s a German horse named Hans became famous for solving mathmatical problems. People could test his skills verbally or in writing. Hans could add, subtract, multiply, tell you what day of the week so many days in the future would be, all sorts of savant feats. In 1904, a…