I agree, but I think there is a little more to it.
I certainly do not see as much from peoples faces as other people can. But I can see a little. I can see stronger emotions than boredom.
But the other side is knowing that some type of response is necessary and what that response should be. I may see that someone is angry or is sad, but I don't necessarily know what to do about it. I don't know whether to try to approach and help or stand back and wait. Often times, the hesitation of response is seen as lack of understanding.
So I get accused of not detecting emotion a lot more than is the case. I can see it, but I don't necessarily respond to it in a way that would be expected. I'll do the wrong thing, or if I know that has failed too many times before, I'll do nothing at all.
That entry was old. I never got any response, so I let it expire.
Now, I go in and I can't see how to create a new entry. All it says is I can edit the existing enry, or delete it. Nothing about adding a new entry.
Is there some new trick in slash to adding new journals? What's the secret?
I can't speak for everyone, this is just my own opinion, blah blah blah.
One of the known differences is the perception that Autistic people have of the world around them. Some things are more clear or understandable, while other things are more cloudy.
It is common for people to have strong visual abilities. They can visualize complex models or ideas in their heads. Some other symptoms include the inability to filter input around them, like filter background noise from general sounds. What can happen then is they get overloaded and can't understand that input very well.
I suspect part of the differences with autistics are that someone gets different input from the world, or at least takes different priorities from the input they get. As a result, those higher priority input drive their development, and the lower ones fade back. If the priorities of input are such that human interactive signals are not read well, then they are not processed and used. It comes to a matter if responding to what you perceve around you. Maybe the way to work with it is to understand which input are best perceved by the person, what gets his attention most effectively, and try to set up communication through that channel. That can't be all of it of course. There is likely some motivational differences as well. To each his own there.
There are a variety of ideas around the causes of Autism. Some are genetic, some are environmental. Most likely it is a combination of them.
Autism is a spectrum disorder. That means it has a wide variety of symptoms and conditions. It means that people classified as "autistic" can be anywhere from mildly to sevearly affected. The big thing to keep in mind is that they are not all the same, probably not even similar in some cases. It is a wide variety of conditions captured in one term: Autism. The most common symptom between them is childhood development delays and weakness in language and social development.
There are reports that Autism increased in the 90's due to the use of Mercury in childhood vaccines. The vaccine preservative in question was discontinued in the US a few years ago, but is still in use in other parts of the world.
The combined result is likely something like:
1. Some genetic combinations can cause autistic trates immediately.
2. Some genetic combinations can cause latent autistic tendencies that must be activated by external force, like mild metal contamination (mercury, lead, other heavy metals).
3. Some genetic combinations are not succeptable to autistic trates. However, extreme contamination can still cause developmental damage.
How these different traits manifest themselves may depend on both the genetic condition, and the severity of the contamination.
The one on drug resistance is not too far off. The use and dossage of antibiotics and antiviral drugs is not just related to what it takes to kill the infection. They are also set to minimize potential risk of resistant mutation. If you use a low dose for a long period of time, then you increase the chance of a resistant mutation of a bacteria developing. However if you use a higher strength but only for a short time, then the opportunity for mutation is reduced. The princial is that having a long lasting environment with lower strength antibiotic would give greater chance of a mutation occuring that would be resistant. a short time span reduces the time window of opportunity and the stronger dose increases the lethality of the current environment. It really is a "survival of the fittest" pattern. I think that qualifies.
Athlon64 can run 32 bit operating systems and software. There's no need to wait.
When the 286 was released, there were no protected mode operating systems for it. (Xenix came out a bit later, after the release).
When the 386 came out, there were no 32 bit operating systems. OS/2 was 286 protected mode (actually wasn't even out yet, just developing). Xenix was 16 bit.
Athlon64 has better support NOW than either of those did then. Waiting for MS to make them a custom operating system is just stuped. If they have a better reason, like internal timing or resources, fine. But don't let MS or XP-64 drive your product release. Let the customers use XP-32 or Linux-X8664.
The US Air Force had various research projects going concerning the dangers of hitting a bird in flight. This is a real problem and has caused crashes and deaths. One of the test projects involved a cannon that fired chickens (dead) at airplanes to test their affect.
A British engineering team was interested in the project and borrowed the cannon for their own tests. They were very surprised when the birds crashed through their airplanes and destroyed them. They called in the US project revierwers to see what was happening.
The reviewers only comment?
"Thaw out the chickens before firing."
But the whole MS problem isn't a copyright issue, it's a monopoly issue.
Not even that. A Copyright is by its definition a limited monopoly. It's a profit issue. If you an figure out a way for the fat cats to get richer and fatter without strangling everyone else, then you have a solution. Any solution that does not involve the fat cats getting righer and fatter is not a solution (according to the fat cats).
the insanely long copyright period and the narrowness of 'fair use' rights
The limiting of rights, the extension of limits, all of that are just by-products of the fat cats trying to get righer. To cure the disease, go after the the scum at the center. Don't just tackle the symptoms. Take out the Corporate greedfest. The rest will clear itself up.
Slow down there. He has some basis for what he says (though not complete).
autism (a mental disorder originating characterized by self-absorption, inability to interact socially, repetitive behavior, and language dysfunction)
Those are the symptoms, but not the root. Autism is in part a learning disorder. Children have weaker learning skills in certain areas or disconnects in normally associated areas, such as associating sound with meaning, or associating sound with vision. Certain types of senses don't corrilate. Thus language development is delayed. Other problems occur when they have difficulty masking out stimulus. They hear or see everything around them and can't mask out the relevant from the noise. Thus they get overloaded and end up missing some important item. Primary sensory mode may be different. Autistic people can have much stronger visual thought at the cost of other types such as language or symbolic thought.
savants are not usually as charismatic and witty as he seems to have been
Also incomplete. It is doubtful that Einstein was on the level of Rainman, on either scale. An autistic will lack the natural ability for relation and interaction, but that does not limit the ability to study human nature and mimic it. In some ways, an autistic person could make an effective study of human nature because of the distance and objectiveness, (as one put it, Its like being an Anthropoligist on Mars). A good study and some special effort can have an autistic person briefly just as charming and friendly as anyone else (like, say, in an interview, or even in a Slashdot Post).
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I certainly do not see as much from peoples faces as other people can. But I can see a little. I can see stronger emotions than boredom.
But the other side is knowing that some type of response is necessary and what that response should be. I may see that someone is angry or is sad, but I don't necessarily know what to do about it. I don't know whether to try to approach and help or stand back and wait. Often times, the hesitation of response is seen as lack of understanding.
So I get accused of not detecting emotion a lot more than is the case. I can see it, but I don't necessarily respond to it in a way that would be expected. I'll do the wrong thing, or if I know that has failed too many times before, I'll do nothing at all.
Now, I go in and I can't see how to create a new entry. All it says is I can edit the existing enry, or delete it. Nothing about adding a new entry.
Is there some new trick in slash to adding new journals? What's the secret?
Thanks in advance for any help.
One of the known differences is the perception that Autistic people have of the world around them. Some things are more clear or understandable, while other things are more cloudy.
It is common for people to have strong visual abilities. They can visualize complex models or ideas in their heads. Some other symptoms include the inability to filter input around them, like filter background noise from general sounds. What can happen then is they get overloaded and can't understand that input very well.
I suspect part of the differences with autistics are that someone gets different input from the world, or at least takes different priorities from the input they get. As a result, those higher priority input drive their development, and the lower ones fade back. If the priorities of input are such that human interactive signals are not read well, then they are not processed and used. It comes to a matter if responding to what you perceve around you. Maybe the way to work with it is to understand which input are best perceved by the person, what gets his attention most effectively, and try to set up communication through that channel.
That can't be all of it of course. There is likely some motivational differences as well. To each his own there.
Autism is a spectrum disorder. That means it has a wide variety of symptoms and conditions. It means that people classified as "autistic" can be anywhere from mildly to sevearly affected. The big thing to keep in mind is that they are not all the same, probably not even similar in some cases. It is a wide variety of conditions captured in one term: Autism. The most common symptom between them is childhood development delays and weakness in language and social development.
There are reports that Autism increased in the 90's due to the use of Mercury in childhood vaccines. The vaccine preservative in question was discontinued in the US a few years ago, but is still in use in other parts of the world.
The combined result is likely something like:
1. Some genetic combinations can cause autistic trates immediately.
2. Some genetic combinations can cause latent autistic tendencies that must be activated by external force, like mild metal contamination (mercury, lead, other heavy metals).
3. Some genetic combinations are not succeptable to autistic trates. However, extreme contamination can still cause developmental damage.
How these different traits manifest themselves may depend on both the genetic condition, and the severity of the contamination.
The one on drug resistance is not too far off. The use and dossage of antibiotics and antiviral drugs is not just related to what it takes to kill the infection. They are also set to minimize potential risk of resistant mutation. If you use a low dose for a long period of time, then you increase the chance of a resistant mutation of a bacteria developing. However if you use a higher strength but only for a short time, then the opportunity for mutation is reduced. The princial is that having a long lasting environment with lower strength antibiotic would give greater chance of a mutation occuring that would be resistant. a short time span reduces the time window of opportunity and the stronger dose increases the lethality of the current environment. It really is a "survival of the fittest" pattern. I think that qualifies.
When the 286 was released, there were no protected mode operating systems for it. (Xenix came out a bit later, after the release).
When the 386 came out, there were no 32 bit operating systems. OS/2 was 286 protected mode (actually wasn't even out yet, just developing). Xenix was 16 bit.
Athlon64 has better support NOW than either of those did then. Waiting for MS to make them a custom operating system is just stuped. If they have a better reason, like internal timing or resources, fine. But don't let MS or XP-64 drive your product release. Let the customers use XP-32 or Linux-X8664.
The US Air Force had various research projects going concerning the dangers of hitting a bird in flight. This is a real problem and has caused crashes and deaths. One of the test projects involved a cannon that fired chickens (dead) at airplanes to test their affect.
A British engineering team was interested in the project and borrowed the cannon for their own tests. They were very surprised when the birds crashed through their airplanes and destroyed them. They called in the US project revierwers to see what was happening.
The reviewers only comment?
"Thaw out the chickens before firing."
Not even that. A Copyright is by its definition a limited monopoly. It's a profit issue. If you an figure out a way for the fat cats to get richer and fatter without strangling everyone else, then you have a solution. Any solution that does not involve the fat cats getting righer and fatter is not a solution (according to the fat cats).
the insanely long copyright period and the narrowness of 'fair use' rights
The limiting of rights, the extension of limits, all of that are just by-products of the fat cats trying to get righer. To cure the disease, go after the the scum at the center. Don't just tackle the symptoms. Take out the Corporate greedfest. The rest will clear itself up.
autism (a mental disorder originating characterized by self-absorption, inability to interact socially, repetitive behavior, and language dysfunction)
Those are the symptoms, but not the root. Autism is in part a learning disorder. Children have weaker learning skills in certain areas or disconnects in normally associated areas, such as associating sound with meaning, or associating sound with vision. Certain types of senses don't corrilate. Thus language development is delayed. Other problems occur when they have difficulty masking out stimulus. They hear or see everything around them and can't mask out the relevant from the noise. Thus they get overloaded and end up missing some important item. Primary sensory mode may be different. Autistic people can have much stronger visual thought at the cost of other types such as language or symbolic thought.
savants are not usually as charismatic and witty as he seems to have been
Also incomplete. It is doubtful that Einstein was on the level of Rainman, on either scale. An autistic will lack the natural ability for relation and interaction, but that does not limit the ability to study human nature and mimic it. In some ways, an autistic person could make an effective study of human nature because of the distance and objectiveness, (as one put it, Its like being an Anthropoligist on Mars). A good study and some special effort can have an autistic person briefly just as charming and friendly as anyone else (like, say, in an interview, or even in a Slashdot Post).
Oh GOD there must be something wrong with me!
... Oh wait. There IS something wrong with me.
Never mind.