Category: Coping

  • Sensory Kit on a Clip

    Sensory Kit on a Clip

    Our sensory kit on a clip consists of: Check out these autistic odes to noise-cancelling headphones. They imply a lot about neurology and how misguided behaviorism is. The thesis that introduced neurodiversity to academia called computers an “essential prosthetic device for autistics“. That they are. A decent set of noise-cancelling headphones is another essential device. I remember my first…

  • Cognitive Net: Checklists, Index Cards, Ivy Lee, and the Leverage of Simple Interventions

    Cognitive Net: Checklists, Index Cards, Ivy Lee, and the Leverage of Simple Interventions

    A checklist of 6 – 10 items on an index card, created daily, can be powerful and accessible coping for interest-based operating systems. Checklists We love lists and checklists. Checklists are simple interventions with lots of leverage. All the examples, I noticed, had a few attributes in common: They involved simple interventions—a vaccine, the removal…