Why mainstream educational courses do not work for me
Rigidly structured educational courses do not work for me. I am able to learn things perfectly effectively, but how I learn is different.
Rigidly structured educational courses do not work for me. I am able to learn things perfectly effectively, but how I learn is different.
For me, learning always begins when something catches my attention: ' this thing looks interesting and I want to do that'
Social mirroring may be a good way of developing social skills directly within the contexts that they will be applied.
Should you have watched a video of an American contra dance you may have noticed that it is not uncommon to see male dancers wearing skirts, but how did this originate?
I share some ideas on skirt silhouettes and approaches to styling that look good on masculine body types.
Twirly skirts are a great aspect of contra dancing, flowing naturally with one's movements and generally looking awesome. Every contra dancer should be able to wear one if they want, why not?
Due to a having a high baseline anxiety, I'm always thinking about what may happen or go wrong in the future, and because of this I only feel safe when I'm fully doing things voluntarily, of my own volition.
I believe that autism is a biologically evolved neurological specialization, a trait that makes individuals predisposed to being good at some kinds of task, and worse at others. Using this idea, we can start making changes to work with differences in a positive way.
Any cursory research will reveal that male skirts were by no means unusual historically, so if we discard the notion that skirts are objectively feminine, what kinds of practical use could men gain from this kind of garment today?
Myself and Louise Siddions, a widely known contra caller, conducted a survey into the skirts people enjoy for contra dancing.
I find it odd that the common software for writing documents are still based around a model of pages of paper. Writing in this way forces a conflation of writing and layout, causing a ton of valueless work.
A number of programming lectures that I found especially valuable.
I describe an implementation of a drag and drop list using pointer events from first principles.