Springingtiger writes about his experiences as an adult on the autism .spectrum, He expresses opinions on technology and social networking from a non-geek perspective. He reflects upon life.
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I think Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is what one might call a “Marmite” film, from the reviews I have read people either love it or hate it. People with experience of Aspergers seem to like the film whereas many professional reviewers, like the Daily Mail’s Christopher Tooke
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I think Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is what one might call a “Marmite” film, from the reviews I have read people either love it or hate it. People with experience of Aspergers seem to like the film whereas many professional reviewers, like the Daily Mail’s Christopher Tooke
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Every Christmas morning when we opened the pillowcases filled with our presents from Santa Claus among them would be a board game. We built up quite a collection of games, Scrabble, Monopoly, Cluedo, Buccaneer and the like. I also loved word based card games, and owned both Lexicon and Kan U Go. I h
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Reblogged from WorldWright's …: On 11 May 2011, thousands of severely disabled people marched (or went in wheelchairs) to protest at Westminster against the deficit-reduction plans implemented by the coalition government of which Maria Miller is a member and Minister for the Disabled. She
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As child I loved to build card houses. My card houses were not stylised constructions but modern architecture with court yards towers and several wings. Although they were made from playing cards in my minds eye I could see where all their doors and windows would be, and I knew the usage of all thei
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I don’t like change,and that applies to telephones as much as anything else. I have been using a N95 since it was at the cutting edge of communications technology and I still like it. My phone is set up exactly as I like it, and it works for me… unfortunately it works less often than [..
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Yesterday while my wife was out at meetings, I decided to surprise her by making dinner. I realized that the easiest way of preparing vegetables for mashing would be to chop it small and cook it, then mash it. Unfortunately as I was getting the vegetables together I spotted the mandolin and thought
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In the summer before my tenth birthday and before I first went to boarding school, there was a terrible earthquake in Skopje, the broadcaster Richard Dimbleby appealed for funds to help the survivors of the disaster. There and then I got out a folding picnic table and set it up outside our house in
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A few days ago I was watching my two year-old granddaughter emptying books from a box ,and having spread them across the floor, sitting and turning pages. She cannot read, but she loves turning the pages, she loves looking at the pictures, and she loves being read to. She uses, “Story?” as a greetin
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Recently I wrote about my first watching of HBO’s Temple Grandin starring Clare Danes, yesterday I watched it again, but this time with the audio commentary of director, writer, and of Temple Grandin herself. I think everyone should do this as it is different from, but a complimentary process
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