My 12yo is into retro gaming and has recently become obsessed with Portal. He decided he wanted to make a weighted companion cube PC case. We had a (very) old Mac Mini in a drawer that I’ve had since before he was born so we got it out and installed […]
Neurodiversity
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I have a word problem. The words are Disorder, Deficit, Disability, and Disease. They all start with the letter D but that’s just a coincidence. Let me take a step back. I’m a neurodivergent person. I’m dad to a neurodivergent kid, husband to a neurodivergent spouse, brother to a neurodivergent […]
I had a weird idea the other day: what if I trained an AI text generator on my own writing? What would it produce? The idea kept nagging at me until this weekend I finally had a free couple of hours and dug in. I used a python package I […]
I’ve read A LOT of books featuring neurodivergent characters. Why? First, to find good books for my own kid. Second, to see what else was out there when I set out to write my own neurodivergent characters. Third, because I volunteered to be a reader/reviewer for our Just Books club […]
Thank you to everyone who attended my session on Saturday! Here is my presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1D33EL5hdIzMDW1m14uZo_RTTsIGlwb1NamM0ZDxJ0Ug/edit?usp=sharing