To paraphrase Gandhi “Multiculturalism would be a good idea“. Cultural diversity is a wonderful idea and as a speaker of 5 languages with bilingual kids, as someone who’s been the sole white guy in a provincial Zambian town, the sole non-Indian in a suburban Delhi apartment block, steered clear of gringos during a trek across
⋯We Care about those who disagree
Samantha Stasy is a loyal Labour MP who genuinely cares about the physical, emotional and mental wellbeing of her constituents. Every week she holds a surgery providing local electors with a forum in which to air their grievances. “I believe it is essential to stay in touch with our electors, listen carefully and help them
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The Arbitrary Extension of the Autistic Spectrum
Over the last twenty years we have witnessed a semantic shift in the concepts of autism and the wider autistic spectrum. The former may assume three broad definitions: A mental condition devoid of a theory of mind with which to relate to other human beings. In this sense we all start life in an autistic
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Non-Web Formats
The Internet is a collection of interlinked documents distributed in open formats compatible with the greatest number of heterogeneous operating systems and devices. The World Wide Web’s standard text markup language is HTML, which has undergone numerous revisions since the Internet’s rapid expansion in the early 1990s. XML, in many ways a descendent of the
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Reclaiming Word
If you own a computer, you probably have some form of word processor. Whether you need to type a report at work or a letter at home or maybe just a short shopping list, chances are you think you need Word or rather Microsoft Word TM . How could we possibly manage without WordArt, ubiquitous
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Is AS really on the Autistic Spectrum or are we just redefining Autism?
The overall message we get from the growing AS/Autism support industry is that we are part of the autistic spectrum and we have a psychiatric disorder, even if the language used by professionals when addressing us is much more diplomatic. I agree we have problems with socialisation and manifest behavioural traits that come under the
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