Aussie rapper and DJ LJ Jesse releases a new, biographical song about her life as an Aspie… and it’s a really neat example of calming audio! by John Counsel LJ Jesse is a member of our Aspergers Help Australia Facebook Group who’s both a rapper and a DJ who pens and records her own songs. …
Persuading Aspies
How to persuade an Aspie to change their mind, attitude and behaviour By John Counsel A couple of things to bear in mind when dealing with Aspies…Value propositions: These are useful and fundamentally logical, but may be totally thwarted by irrational fears — which are emotional. Challenging their fears: again, this may be a rational …
Managing Diversity
How do we encourage Equality of Opportunity without falling for the counterfeit of Equality of Outcome? By JOHN COUNSEL Let me state, for the record, that I am politically unaligned. I choose the candidates for election for whom I vote according to the principles, policies and programs they espouse… and I hold them publicly accountable, …
Autism Awareness
Why I'm totally OPEN about having Asperger’s Syndrome By John Counsel I was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome on Christmas Eve, 24 December 2002. It was the best Christmas gift I've ever received, and I celebrate that date as “Liberation Day”, because I was finally able to begin to understand myself and take control of my life… …
Introduction…
Discovering the REAL me… after 57 years! NOTICEJohn Counsel suffered an occlusion in his brain's Occipital Lobe (stroke) on 4 June 2020, which affected his visual processing ability, as well as his ability to read and write plus his ability to make sense of alphabet characters and numbers.By early August 2022 John's recovery is progressing …
DISCOVERY! Is this yet another common, traumatic childhood experience that causes Autism?
By John Counsel Study these four photos below carefully — then compare them with the four photos above and see if you can identify the things they all have in common that are obviously traumatising all these children against their wills. (The main difference is that this invasive procedure doesn’t put anything into their bodies; …
The Process of Mastery
By JOHN COUNSEL This tutorial is about the process behind the classic transition from Unconscious Incompetence to Unconscious Competence. Legend: The vertical axis of the graph represents control (top) andabsence of control (bottom). The horizontal axis represents time. Stage 1a: Unconscious Incompetence — we think we’re in control… until something happens to make us realise the truth about our delusions… Stage 1b: Unconscious Incompetence — this is where we really were, all along. Ignorant of our own ignorance and incompetence. …
Why Aspies can be so obstinate and resistant to change… and so volatile!
BY JOHN COUNSEL Here are a few things I’ve learned about myself (and a lot of other Aspies, too — I’ve lived with four generations of us) that really puzzled and bothered me all my life, decades before diagnosis. See if you recognise them in your own relationships… IMPORTANT: Some of the behaviour discussed here is now recognised as …
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Famous Aspies
Famous people who are or were — or almost certainly were* — Aspies * Because of the reality that Asperger’s Syndrome was not formally recognised until 1992 (World Health Organisation: ICD-10) and 1994 (American Psychiatric Association: DSM-IV), despite it being articulated half a century earlier by Austrian pediatrician Dr Hans Asperger in 1944, many of the individuals …
What would today’s world be like WITHOUT Aspies?
By John Counsel Whenever I hear or see someone asking what use Aspies are to the human race, or what should be done about us, my response is simple: “What do YOU think today’s world would be like without Aspies?” Out of idle curiosity, let’s consider just a few key features of everyday life in …
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My Aspie World 