Katharine Annear

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  Katharine signed the petition | about 3 years ago

  Understand Autism-First Language
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  Katharine commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Pattern-Read Errors and Superstition

  Dora,
  
  Thanks for this enlightening post. It has helped me synthesise something that I deal with everyday. People who see patterns, people who don't see patterns and people who see false patterns.
  
  Autistic people are said not to be able the make sense of the world because they don't see patterns or that they make sense out of 'the wrong pattern'. Seeing the wrong pattern can often lead us to be institutionalised. However the people that decide that we are seeing the wrong patterns often see the wrong patterns themselves so where does that leave us.
  
  A large part of my work is seeing patterns, patterns in people's behaviour and sometimes being Autistic has an advantage as I examine these patterns differently and this can be helpful in bringing about progress in the person where progress has not been seen before.
  
  What I have also learned is that the mind is constantly searching for patterns, for 'meaning'. Apparently even when we are sleeping the mind is still sorting away establishing patterns. However, the truth is that our minds are not reality. Our minds do the job of filtering and arranging reality and presenting it in a way that will be of most advantage to us - that is what the mind has evolved to do.
  
  What I am most interested in is the glitches and anomalies in the filtering and arranging of patterns and tracing back from the pattern to the event in order to understand how that pattern was formed.
  
  'Never judge a Pattern by its cover'
  

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  Katharine signed the petition | about 3 years ago

  Tell ASA No More Monstrous Messages