I would love to hear any reflections or comments on this topic! I found it fascinating as to how the person was able to assemble furniture despite being blind, utalising technology and various other strategies.
A digital pen would be great also, if it didn't need special paper and worked well. The idea is to replace pen and paper with a device which is essentially an infinite supply of pen+paper. Having to buy special paper is limiting. I'm often trying to capture fleeting ideas so a solution needs to be handy everywhere which either means many cheap tablets or an expensive digital pen that works on just about any surface. Nothing digital I've seen or tried so far works well for this purpose.
it depends where you want to live? But it sounds like working at a retail for 1 year will mean you're better positioned in another year to find work elsewhere. Importantly, though, which work / job is more interesting to you?
I would consider living in the small town if the tech industry (since I want to work in tech) thought that the retail industry was less important, but most people that I asked seems to think the industry does not matter.
Regarding the work, the startup seems more interesting but there are cool things to do in retail as well. I got both of the jobs offering because I worked as a consultant for the startup solving a problem for this retail company, so I really think the work will be similar but the startup will be more diverse (different companies and etc...)
Most of my work as a software developer is for the better of humanity - which i'm lucky to do, but straight out of university it was my goal. I started a wee company that delivers stroke, dementia, autism therapies and we'll be branching out to our own products. Interestingly, I had a similar idea drawn up for Hollieguard - looks like I may not have to build it now.
There's a book called The Reason I Jump written by a non-verbal autistic boy (dictated by pointing at a printed keyboard), where he describes being able to understand most things (except at times where he is overloaded by sensory stimuli), but is often unable to control his response as he wishes.
This has lead me to believe that sensory-motor differences may be the primary difference between autistic and neurotypical people.
Yes. I wrote my thesis on creating a piece of autism technology to teach people what it was like to have Autism. And through my work I came to the same conclusion.
Many people on the autistic spectrum find their sensory issues traumatic. I've interviewed a fair few of them and it sounded awful. It wouldn't surprise me if there's correlation. Because the two are quite possibly linked, especially for DTD rather than PTSD.
It's refreshing to see a comment like this. My default stance on most topics, even those which I am nominally educated in, is to have no opinion. My rule of thumb is to consciously abstain from having an opinion about a thing unless I know I can authoritatively speak at some length about the subject.
To repurpose a comment in another thread about nuclear fusion: online discussions about autism generally consist of the Wikipedia-educated debating the Youtube-educated. Likewise for topics like ADHD and sociopathy. It would be nice if more people defaulted to, "I'm not really fit to comment" rather than, "I have strong opinions after reading a few pages and talking with friends about this."
It might be that I know enough to know that I know nothing.
I've worked in academia and Neuroscience, have studied Autism for my masters and created technology to teach people about Autism. Have volunteered in an adhd charity, worked around clinicians and neuropsychologists and had countless discussions on the topic of diagnosis.
All I can conclude, is even these guys can't establish the correct way to diagnose and it changes often.
I have no chance. PTSD and Autism are both extremely complex.
