The Blood is The Life 15-02-2012

[miss_s_b]

• Love and Liberty: Things To Remember About Labour #3
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• UK Polling Report dissects the UK religion poll
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• What I've Learned About Smart People.
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• When the bias of our blinders changes the Bible
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• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Long Lost Doghouse
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• BBC News - Panorama - America's homeless resort to tent cities
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• Amazon.com: Zombie in Love (9781442402706): Kelly DiPucchio, Scott Campbell: Books
  Heh. Holly would love this.
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• Round Two: Favorite Stories Starring Women | women write about comics
  Ongoing girly comics carnical is ongoing. This topic inspires me more than the last one, which I found a bit depressing to think about TBH.
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Comments

[bagpuss]

The blog post about smart people asking questions certainly tallies with my experience at scientific conferences

[gwenhwyfaer]

Hmm. I find it virtually impossible to ask questions, because it feels like too much of an invasion into other people's lives / time / whatever - and also, because it takes me a while to process information I've received (offline, effectively) to the point where I know what questions I want to ask about it. Didn't understand why until I got my autism diagnosis. So I'm kind of pissed off with the inherent assumptions in that article, assumptions that as of today, and the "atheism != privilege relief" article you posted, I'll know to call allist - especially at the point where it becomes explicit ("I just google it later so I don't look stupid"), because Googling stuff is in itself asking questions about it! And frankly, much more likely to get someone like me answers than an awful ten minute silence where I desperately try to think about what questions I might be expected to ask.

(I first encountered someone mistaking an autistic approach for a lack of curiosity when my chemistry tutor told me "yes, you're bright, but this person here is so curious about the subject and that deserves extra time". Didn't understand it was allist privilege for another 15 years, but...)

[miss_s_b]

I was an obsessive question asker at school and uni, to the point where it pissed off everyone eles in the room - I need time to process too, but I always used to read back my notes at the end of the day.

The thing about not wanting to invade other people's time is a being-socialised-as-female thing, I think. I get that too sometimes, but it just makes me cross with the patriarchy and then I ask more questions just to spite Them.

[gwenhwyfaer]

"The thing about not wanting to invade other people's time is a being-socialised-as-female thing, I think."

And what part of me telling you it was because I was autistic did you feel comfortable dismissing out of hand, Jennie?

[miss_s_b]

Oh dear. I didn't mean to sound like I was dismissing you, I meant that's what it feels like when it happens to me.