Category: Labels

• October 24, 2022

  On “labelling,” PART 3. Conclusion: a big autistic mistake?

  

  For at least as many times as there have been days in my life, I have forgotten a simple truth: not everyone perceives the world as I do. A common trait, if not a defining one in autism, is not being able to understand what most people instinctively know about human behavior and communication. There…
• October 9, 2022

  My version of the famous parable, “The Good Samaritan”

  BACKGROUND – THE ORIGINAL STORY “The Good Samaritan” is one of the more famous parables of Jesus, told after he was asked, “Who is my neighbor?” Martin Luther King, Jr. made a long reference to this parable on the night before he was assassinated in his “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech. The story is…
• October 5, 2022

  You might as well call me an avocado from Mexico. (“On Labelling,” Part 2)

  

  In my “On Labelling” post, I explained why I thought it would be good if one considers a label to be a diagnosis. Isn’t more information better? Ironically, more information may prove otherwise. Many of my interpersonal catastrophes have an element of – what shall I call it? — excessive data collection (EDC)— as a…