Thought Stream

A collection of 97 posts

Actually Autistic

On the Care and Maintenance of Larval Autistes

I know I’ve had some mean things to say about how Autism is treated. This time, it’s all about how to raise your Autiste…

Personal Illogic

These Humans Are Crazy – It Ain’t That Bad

Statistically speaking, a mentally disabled person is more likely to be attacked or harmed by a sane person than the other way around.

Actually Autistic

What is Time?

There’s probably a lot of you who flinch every time that Autism word cloud pops up, so I should warn you now.

Actually Autistic

Follow, Follow-up

Let me tell you about this cock-up of epic proportions called “diagnosis”.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

The Unobservant Effect

I would like to make this clear that I have absolutely, positively no idea whether or not this is a co-morbidity of my ASD, if it’s a Writer Thing(tm)…

Save the World

One Nutter Saves the World: Defending the Income Ceiling

We all know that there are some people in the world who have too much money.

Save the World

One Nutter Saves the World: Adequate Medical Care

Let’s actually care about other people again. I know, I know, that’s such a controversial statement in this day and age.

Save the World

One Nutter Saves the World: Disarm the Poverty Trap

I’ve been on the underside of the economy and slipped briefly between the cracks. I’ve been in a place where the next meal depended on what we could extract from the couch cushions, that day.

Save the World

One Nutter Saves the World: End the Steam Age

I know what you’re thinking: Nutter, you outrageously good writer, we’ve been out of the Steam Age since electricity became a thing.

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Equally Sick, Unequally Seen

You may have already guessed from the picture, but I’m about to go off once again on my favourite topic: Autism.

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Groundhog Purgatory: Redemption by Do-Overs

The clock ticks around and the alarm in the form of I Got You Babe asking Cher to put her little hand in Sony’s.

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Representation Vs Comedy: How We Laugh With Prejudice

Be warned, I am a self-confessed SJW. I would prefer that society has justice and I’m willing to do whatever I can to try and make it happen.

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Racists Get Evolution Wrong: Darwin Needed Better Editors

Everything that Racists use to justify their superiority is wrong. We know this. Nothing amongst it is more wrong than the phrase “survival of the fittest.”

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Autism and You: Things I Want Nypicals to Know

I am Autistic. If the previous four weeks of articles weren’t a clue, I’m kind’a passionate about the entire social mire surrounding my condition.

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Autism and Me, Part Four: Things Could be Better

Progress has happened. That’s a good thing. Awareness is spreading, more people know what Autism looks like and more people know more about it.

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Autism and Me, Part Three: Things Are Better Now

I have had a lifetime of falling through the cracks. Too smart for public school, too dumb to get a free ride with a more elite educational facility.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Autism and Me, Part Two: Coping Strategies Good, Bad, and Atrocious

I was a child for the era in which measles could kill a kid. Hell, I had schoolmates who thought I had died, the year I caught all the spots. They were greatly disappointed that I was still alive, but that’s not the point of this particular diatribe.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Autism and Me, Part One: Public School Attitude

Back in the 70’s, Asperger’s didn’t exist. Even if it did, I didn’t fit all the checkboxes.

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Cringe Comedy: Why Must They go There?

There’s a reason why I stopped watching RomComs, apart from the Different Movie, Same Plot syndrome that wore on my patience before very long.

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The RomCom Power Imbalance

To begin with, I am not a scriptwriter, nor am I someone who writes romance for a living.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

I Keep on Hurting Myself

I have a part of my own brain that hates me. There have been times where I’ve joked that there’s a gremlin living in there and causing havoc.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Gone With the Prophets

This is the last message my friend shared with the world. On Sunday, the 24th of March, she posted this picture.

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Are We Equal?

I hear it stated a lot, especially by people claiming that there is no further ‘need’ for Feminism, that “we are all equal now”.

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Tropes I Despise: The Miraculous Minority

You’ve likely seen them without ever knowing they’re there. They’re in Hallmark movies. They’re in Hero movies. They’re in your after-school special.

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Who Cares?

I've been working on this blog for some time now, and I thought I had followers. I thought people were reading these things. Turns out, once again, I'm shouting into the darkness of the void, with no response whatsoever from the enormous gulfs of whatever. I