Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
Wonderful thing to put on your resume! Congrats.
  

    
WONDERFUL! Congratulations, Steve!
  

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Thanks for putting in all those years of work, Steve; they paid off big.
  

    
Well earned.

>  "First popular science book to win the prize in its 17-year
 history."

I take that to mean, "addressed to a general audience, but written with
greater rigor and discovery than that might imply."

My heartfelt congratulations, Steve.
  

    
Well Done and a Very Big congratulations!
  

    
and I'm on page 8 of the introduction, and fascinated. By page 5, I
had to grab my highlighter and pencil. Continued congratulations-
  

    
Haha, I had to do that too!
  

    

Well done, Steve, and well deserved! It's a triumph.
  

    
Anybody in the DC area interested in seeing <digaman> talk about his
book this evening?

Steve posted in Facebook this morning about a talk today at the
Ivymount School in Potomac, MD.   (it's in the neighborhood where I
grew up.  In fact, it's going to be in the building where I went to
elementary school).

I'm going.

<http://www.ivymount.org/programs.cfm?subpage=1733>
  

    
Too far for me...

As an aside have folks encountered the book "The Rosie Project"
Fiction, protagonist is a professor of genetics with aspergrs. Does
a nice job of presenting the assets of not being neurotypical along
with some of the challenges. It is a romantic comedy and in many
ways rather of type but having the a-typical protagonist adds some
interest. 
  

    
If I was nearby, I'd love to attend. That's the first I've heard of
"The Rosie Project", Kathy. Sounds interesting. 

pg.30 note

How odd that Wilson would make such a simple mistake about the age
of his subject, especially in such flowery language, concluding, "..
as his allotted three score and ten would permit." 

Perhaps Wilson was referring to Cavendish's "productive years"?
Cavendish clearly lived almost four score.
  

    
Is there a scheduled, speaking engagement/book tour, or is this a
one time thing, tonight in Potomac?
  

    
Just wanted to say that after years of having one of my children
diagnosed and treated as having ADHD, Steve and his book played no
small role in determining that he's actually NOT ADHD but in fact is
on the spectrum. That realization changed our entire family to the
positive. Thanks Steve.
  

    
WElcome back tot he WELL, Tony!!
  

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There's so very much we don't know about the 'spectrum'. I am close
to someone who was diagnosed with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder and
OCD, which often overlap, and NVLD has some overlaps with
Asperger's.There's a whole family of interrelated possible symptoms
and over time some kids accumulate a bunch of labels, any of : NVLD,
OCD, ADHD, PDD/NOS, Autism, Asperger's,Anxiety,BDD, Tourettes,
Depression, Executive Function Deficiencies, and sometimes "Shadow
Syndrome".

Sometimes the labels really help - it can be lifesaving to put a
name to the problems, and it can shift the school from punishment to
helping. But the diagnoses also limit, because  in the end each
person has their own collection of strengths and weaknesses and has
to find what works for them. I think that a great many people don't
fit neatly into one category or another -  I believe that sometime
in the future we will dispense with these labels and work with
strengths and weaknesses in different areas. 

I once saw a study that broke NVLD down into six distinct subtypes
and none of them really fit my person (although bits of each did).

Here are a couple of pictures that attempt to convey this:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/363736107375388752/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/133559945171229992/
https://i1.wp.com/www.scielo.br/img/revistas/rbp/v28s1/en_a03fig01.gif
  

    
Interesting diagrams. 

The first 109 pages have moved slowly, as I spent a lot of time
highlighting comments and symptoms which resonated with my
experience, which lead me to plod slowly with long periods of
consideration and personal memories.

On page 109, the nature of the book has taken a turn, and I've
fairly laid down the highlighter and entered page turning history.
  

    
There's much to absorb. I'm wanting to re-read.

It's not just a book about autism, but a book about an often
catastrophic tendency to reject and dismiss "the other." Its
implications resonate throughout culture and politics...
  

    
I am already re-reading. Your thought about implications is
certainly spot-on.
  

    
This topic is perhaps exhausted, but I am only now finally getting
around to reading this absorbing book. Only about a quarter of the
way through, I am amazed by the scope of this subject. It is truly a
page turner and beautifully written. It is so deserving of the
honors it is receiving. It is the book of the year for me.
  

    
Steve Silberman, denizen of the WELL and amazing writer, will speak
about his book "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of
Neurodiversity" on June 8 (Wednesday), 6:30 p.m. at the Petaluma
Regional Library. 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/923473364356966/ 
Web: https://sonomalibrary.org/neurotribes

Please come!
  

    
Steve I know this has long since come and gone but is anybody
recording these appearances in either audio or video format? 
  

    

Steve hasn't been around at all since this ended.
  

    
Thanks man.