What Good Representation of Autistic Characters Looks Like, Part I: Interiority and Neurology

Elizabeth Bartmesselizabethbartmess.comThis is a three-part series. Part II explores Diversity in Autistic Characteristics and Demographics. Part III explores Setting, Plot, and Character Growth. "A lot of writers and actors seem to be able to get their...

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Why Is the Autistic Unemployment Rate So High?

Photo © Terry Chay | Flickr/Creative Commons[image: A colorful office workstation with two large computer monitors.]Maxfield Sparrowunstrangemind.comIn the United States, thirty-five percent of Autistic eighteen-year-olds go to college. Of those American...

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Autism, Transmasculine Identity, and Invisibility

The Transgender Pride FlagBy SVG file Dlloyd based on Monica Helms design [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons[image: A flag with five horizontal stripes. The center stripe is white, flanked by two pink stripes,then a light blue stripe at the top and...

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Character Development:: Some perfectionists have a dark side

kurtbubna.comA "control-freak" perfectionist, a.k.a., the other-directed perfectionist as described in this research.Link: How to handle the control freakWe all know someone who is a perfectionist.  In fact, it may be someone who drives you crazy,...

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Stone Age Iberians Send Culture But Not Genes Across Europe

Source:  NatureAncient-genome study finds Bronze Age ‘Beaker culture’invaded Britain.  (Click to read Nature article)Copper Age Iberians 'exported' their culture -- but not their genes -- all over Europe"The Neolithic people who built...

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People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened

Credit: © jedi-master / Fotolia"Our findings show that false memories of committing crime with police contactcan be surprisingly easy to generate, and can have all the same kinds of complexdetails as real memories," says psychological scientist and...

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Being Weird is Normal, Psychologically Speaking.

behappyWhen it comes to our brains,there's no such thing as normalThere's nothing wrong with being a little weird. Because we think of psychological disorders on a continuum, we may worry when our own ways of thinking and behaving don't match up with...

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How the brain listens to literature

Whole-brain analysis results for the action localizer scan in yellow(hand action execution versus rest), and for the mentalizing localizerin blue (false belief stories versus false photograph stories). The actionlocalizer activated the cortical motor...

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