tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post5494402407923178821..comments2024-01-24T11:20:46.055+00:00Comments on in regione caecorum rex est luscus: But do I exist?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-55724824966977643482008-03-07T01:21:00.000+00:002008-03-07T01:21:00.000+00:00And for as scholarly a definition of the origins o...And for as scholarly a definition of the origins of the concepts of normality that you are ever likely to find:<BR/><BR/>http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/excerpts/DFTDtwo.html<BR/><BR/>And this was written before Nadesan, and Grinker waltzed in and colonised our landscape with there sociological theories. Yep there is no new thing under the sun.Larry Arnold PhD FRSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05074432718592268750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-65874770428848753052008-03-07T01:07:00.000+00:002008-03-07T01:07:00.000+00:00Well Sarah you are persistent, I will grant you th...Well Sarah you are persistent, I will grant you that.<BR/><BR/>I think I defined human some time ago in another blog as something which is neither chimpanzee, robot nor Stephen Pinker :)<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/yrxnhjLarry Arnold PhD FRSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05074432718592268750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-27043987542218702132008-03-07T00:48:00.000+00:002008-03-07T00:48:00.000+00:00Greetings!My name is Sarah Edwards, and I am an As...Greetings!<BR/>My name is Sarah Edwards, and I am an Aspie (a.k.a. I have Asperger’s Syndrome) and I am a medical student.<BR/><BR/>I am working with another medical student, Sara Dungavell, on an ethics project about the meaning of words. We are working under the supervision of an ethicist named Dr. Jeff Nisker. Sara and I noticed that the common meanings of the words, “human”, “fully-functionalHedgehogMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13975593907088672780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-24612944747807029422008-03-06T11:53:00.000+00:002008-03-06T11:53:00.000+00:00Not read that one, I will have to, but I am famili...Not read that one, I will have to, but I am familiar with the construction of disability identities and of course recognise the role that the media play in this.<BR/><BR/>The thing is I do not believe that all identities that can be constructed are beneficial ones, particularly the kind of reaction to an exogenously imposed and societally constructed disability identity that manifests itself in aLarry Arnold PhD FRSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05074432718592268750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-86121494396865911582008-03-06T09:32:00.000+00:002008-03-06T09:32:00.000+00:00I'm with narrative psychologists such as Michael L...I'm with narrative psychologists such as Michael L. Crossley who argue that people can take an active role in constructing their own identities...<BR/><BR/>Crossley, M. L. (2000) 'Introducing Narrative Psychology: self, trauma and the construction of meaning' (Buckingham: Open University Press)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-88018648691963552772008-03-05T06:06:00.000+00:002008-03-05T06:06:00.000+00:00"I am sick of diagnostic schedules that pathologis..."I am sick of diagnostic schedules that pathologise a propensity toward non social pastime and characterise us as passionless automata."<BR/><BR/>Me too. It's especially crappy when the <I>criteria</I> become the means by which services are given (as opposed to the actually needs of the person concerned). This seems to be how Autismisäätiö have operated in my case: they don't seem to get it David N. Andrews M. Ed., C. P. S. E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10361832306977383560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-2275327366748658322008-03-05T03:50:00.000+00:002008-03-05T03:50:00.000+00:00Very deep poem. I like it.Very deep poem. I like it.Marla https://www.blogger.com/profile/03926898159751613267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-31976875820356035802008-03-04T06:19:00.000+00:002008-03-04T06:19:00.000+00:00The progress on the doctorate is slow and hampered...The progress on the doctorate is slow and hampered by lack of finance to reimburse volunteers, meaning I may have to revise some aspects of the experiment to include distant people.<BR/><BR/>I have also met with some resistance in recruiting volunteers lately from a particular college whom I shall not name on this occasion (it's not City College) <BR/>whereby I suspect an over protective attitudeLarry Arnold PhD FRSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05074432718592268750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-57697276954435064642008-03-04T05:44:00.000+00:002008-03-04T05:44:00.000+00:00Tirra Lirra by the river, sang Sir Lancelot.Tirra Lirra by the river, sang Sir Lancelot.Larry Arnold PhD FRSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05074432718592268750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-12586559584699206862008-03-04T04:29:00.000+00:002008-03-04T04:29:00.000+00:00Perhaps, like the Lady of Shalott, you should not ...Perhaps, like the Lady of Shalott, you should not have looked beyond the mirror.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-19728633345990945232008-03-03T21:33:00.000+00:002008-03-03T21:33:00.000+00:00if a tree falls in a forest 100 miles away do you ...if a tree falls in a forest 100 miles away do you hear it? does it exist?jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240007.post-74834211746576116672008-03-03T21:14:00.000+00:002008-03-03T21:14:00.000+00:00That is you can't, you know, tune in, but it's all...That is you can't, you know, tune in, but it's all right... that is I think it's not too bad!<BR/><BR/>;)<BR/><BR/>How's the doctoral stuff going, Larry?<BR/><BR/>Best,<BR/>DavidDavid N. Andrews M. Ed., C. P. S. E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10361832306977383560noreply@blogger.com