Interesting Links for 26-11-2012
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andrewducker- Growing food in the desert through solar-powered desalination
- Female porn stars are psychologically as healthy or healthier than other women
- All-Glass Bathrooms Debut in Texas Town. (I'd feel odd the first few times I used one)
- Making a Vibrator That Listens to Your Body (damned impressive hacking here)
- Nanotech that can turn icy water into steam - very handy for purification.
- The results of the first longitudinal study of what happens to women denied abortions.
- On Misogyny in Industrial Music
- The Lord Of The Rings, told in two minutes, using TF2.
- How much money is anyone making from streaming music, and where does the money go?
- Israel and Hamas predict different result from doing same thing
- Cat Owner Problems (a tumblr)
- The JMS Star Trek reboot that never was.
- Shredded (but legible) police papers used as confetti in Macy's Parade
- How to avoid problem people (I know several people who could really have benefited from this)
- How would you change your life if you were going to live forever?
- How would you change your life if you knew you were going to die in five years?
- The Hobbit's amazing transformations - before/after makeup for the main characters
- No more upgrades: Intel to stop making swappable chips
- The world is (mostly) getting better; we just don't realize it.
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Date: 2012-11-28 02:38 am (UTC)I'm part of the Personality Disorder Project in Edinburgh which is trying to change the way Personality Disorder (PD) is viewed in general. We've even teamed up with one of the mental health nursing courses at Napier University to better educate their third year students.
My condition makes me question every thought and feeling I have and I had to ask my boyfriend if he thought I was over-reacting after someone of my friends commented on my Facebook post. He's usually the first person to tell me if I am over-reacting or have gotten the wrong end of the stick or misunderstood something and as a result I trust what he says. He agrees with me on this. He thinks the way the article is worded is harmful and especially stigmatising to those with PD. And that was just the introduction!
The author of the article could have left out all the stuff on mental illness and I would not have had such a big problem with it until I read your comments. I don't have much experience with autism or aspergers so I never thought about the article from that perspective. Thinking back on it, yes it does also read as "how to isolate aspies".
In another comment you said
I completely agree with you on this. That bothered me too but I was so incensed by the PD stuff that I forgot about it. I'd like to thank you for pointing it out as I knew there were other things that were bugging me but I haven't had the emotional spoons to go back to find them.
It's comforting to know that I'm not the only person who finds the phrase "I think you might be reading too much into this" and its ilk triggering. The whole "I'm normal, you're abnormal (mentally ill/autistic/aspergers etc) and we're disagreeing so you must be wrong" happens fairly often in my experience. Yes I see some things differently but when it comes to things that are blatantly hurtful I think I know what I'm on about.
I hope this comment makes sense. I often struggle to put things into words and my writing comes across as terse and cold and detached when I don't want it to.
Long comment short - I'm agreeing with you.
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Date: 2012-11-28 09:39 am (UTC)