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 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Quitting violin

statesman
Posted: 22 Mar 2011, 7:00 pm 

Replies: 16
Views: 3,310
I wonder how both would feel about an electric violin?

 Forum: Work and finding a Job   Topic: Graduated with a Math degree... feel like a moron.

statesman
Posted: 18 Mar 2011, 7:34 am 

Replies: 36
Views: 47,821
i am going for a bachelors in mathematics too and wondering what sort of openings will be available to me Advice that I give to a lot of people in CS is while in college is to learn all that you can about another field or industry in addition to CS. The same advice holds for Math. Both CS and Math ...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Is the "gut instinct" just an obsolete NT trait??

statesman
Posted: 11 Mar 2011, 8:09 am 

Replies: 13
Views: 1,825
But what a lot of people call their "gut" is really what is called cognitive biases--evolution has made it possible for our brains to make cognitive short cuts, like when we still hunted and forage the plains of Africa, we had a cognitive bias towards anything that slithered like a snake. Anything ...

 Forum: Work and finding a Job   Topic: Good at computers, bad with math

statesman
Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 9:59 pm 

Replies: 6
Views: 17,413
Also be sure to check out these potential careers to see if they are a better fit for you: Computer aided drafting A variety of careers that work with Geographic Information Systems (usually in government, utilities and engineering sectors) Digital Video editing Graphic Designer MultiMedia artist/an...

 Forum: Work and finding a Job   Topic: Good at computers, bad with math

statesman
Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 6:44 pm 

Replies: 6
Views: 17,413
I'm a (NT) computer scientist. Be aware that there is a stereotype out there that all that people with computer degrees do is program all day. That is simply not the case - Few computer jobs are all-programming-all-the-time. For the type of work that I do, I write more lines of English text then lin...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Homework Repeats Itself

statesman
 Post subject: Re: Homework Repeats Itself
Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 10:11 am 

Replies: 16
Views: 2,073
Worse is now his grade beginning to slip because the teacher is docking points for his repition. So now I'm stuck. Cause I mean I understand, you have to write a paper properly. He's not as bad as he use to be. But I am not sure what I can do to get him good papers. They have made allowances, until...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Perspective and Point of View

statesman
Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 9:44 am 

Replies: 7
Views: 1,930
How can we break down the communication barriers between Aspie and NT and both learn to see things from the other's point of view or some approximation thereof? (I realize this has been covered to some extent in various threads but usually it seems adjunct to other topics). About 20 years ago, I sa...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: SAMPLE Strengths & Needs for IEP... and School Safety Pl

statesman
Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 8:17 am 

Replies: 100
Views: 464,498
He hates keyboarding, but loves computers. As a non-AS computer scientist who never learned to properly "type" or as we now refer to it "keyboarding", I think that typing/keyboarding is a useful, yet over-emphasized skill taught by the schools. My typing method (the "hunt-peck-swear-erase" method) ...
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