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LJ Interests meme
Aug. 18th, 2008 02:05 pmAndy tagged me with this meme ages ago, so:
prosopagnoscia - not being able to recognise people's faces. it's my own self diagnosis of why I fell into sf fandom at age 16, being otherwise fairly normal :-P
Real prosopagnoscia is serious shit - "face blindness" - something it seems quite hard for us to even imagine. But I do find it remarkably difficult to recognise people till I know them fairly well, way beyond normal social lack of skills-itis. As a child starting school yars, and again at uni, I remember that everyone else suddenly seemed to know who everyone was, while i was lurching around in a sea of unknowns. Which makes it remarkably difficult to get to know people or arange social events - you can't KEEP asking who someone is, and people have this bad habit of changing their clothes, their hair, even their glasses.. I do think this really retarded my social development.
Fandom was great - BADGES! And academe isn't bad either - most places have photos of staff on doors, on web sites and conferences have badges too--- all very helpful. Have I deliberately found domains where my disability doesn't count as badly against me?
gikii My very own little academic IT law blue skies workshop. Started as a joke, now apparently annual - the third one will be this September. Recently someone said "is there any decent It lawyer in the UK who isn't coming to GikII?" Creating it is probably the thing I'm most proud of.
marge piercy cult feminist counter culture author, US Jewish, also known for some sf influences and (controversially) winning the Arthur C Clarke award one year for He, She and It, a novel i adored about AI, sexbots and Jewish golems - combining practically every obsession I have even more effectively than (and earlier than) Michael Chabon. As much as anyone she turned me into a feminist and I still often rate Braided Lives as my fave all time book (it proved starngely prophetic too). Sadly her recent books ain't too much cop and i vaguely feel she is writing for the money (or perhaps to fulfill contracts), squeezing out ideas at the end of their toothpaste tube. Sad. She reminds me too that we're all getting so old: once she wrote about free love, now it's about euthanasia for the dying. I'll still always buy a new one by her.
finnish idiosyncracies this was inspired as you might imagine by Finnish Ex_lodger, who i kinda miss. Sob :( Apparently she's now trained Simoin her British boyfriend to like liquorice ice cream :-)
cbt left over influence from two years of talking about it with V I think. I don't believe it's more than a band aid, but when you need a plaster, it is a good one.
OK,anyone want to be tagged??
prosopagnoscia - not being able to recognise people's faces. it's my own self diagnosis of why I fell into sf fandom at age 16, being otherwise fairly normal :-P
Real prosopagnoscia is serious shit - "face blindness" - something it seems quite hard for us to even imagine. But I do find it remarkably difficult to recognise people till I know them fairly well, way beyond normal social lack of skills-itis. As a child starting school yars, and again at uni, I remember that everyone else suddenly seemed to know who everyone was, while i was lurching around in a sea of unknowns. Which makes it remarkably difficult to get to know people or arange social events - you can't KEEP asking who someone is, and people have this bad habit of changing their clothes, their hair, even their glasses.. I do think this really retarded my social development.
Fandom was great - BADGES! And academe isn't bad either - most places have photos of staff on doors, on web sites and conferences have badges too--- all very helpful. Have I deliberately found domains where my disability doesn't count as badly against me?
gikii My very own little academic IT law blue skies workshop. Started as a joke, now apparently annual - the third one will be this September. Recently someone said "is there any decent It lawyer in the UK who isn't coming to GikII?" Creating it is probably the thing I'm most proud of.
marge piercy cult feminist counter culture author, US Jewish, also known for some sf influences and (controversially) winning the Arthur C Clarke award one year for He, She and It, a novel i adored about AI, sexbots and Jewish golems - combining practically every obsession I have even more effectively than (and earlier than) Michael Chabon. As much as anyone she turned me into a feminist and I still often rate Braided Lives as my fave all time book (it proved starngely prophetic too). Sadly her recent books ain't too much cop and i vaguely feel she is writing for the money (or perhaps to fulfill contracts), squeezing out ideas at the end of their toothpaste tube. Sad. She reminds me too that we're all getting so old: once she wrote about free love, now it's about euthanasia for the dying. I'll still always buy a new one by her.
finnish idiosyncracies this was inspired as you might imagine by Finnish Ex_lodger, who i kinda miss. Sob :( Apparently she's now trained Simoin her British boyfriend to like liquorice ice cream :-)
cbt left over influence from two years of talking about it with V I think. I don't believe it's more than a band aid, but when you need a plaster, it is a good one.
OK,anyone want to be tagged??
