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It takes two to make a brain grow right
Another example of the ubiquity of...
Two recent suicides: Arday & Brandram
This is the second time within a few...
Jason Arday and his neurodiversity?
Claiming to be, apparently, suddenly able to read and write until 18 seems incredulous. And what were the ‘mechanisms’ that allowed these sudden deficits to be remedied?
Uta Frith and dismantling autism
numbers had also been boosted by people self-diagnosing and “a search for identity”. Dame Uta said that the “shift from a precise clinical into a vague, culturally amplified identity category” had generated “massive demand” for assessments in teenagers and adults “with an almost magnetic attraction” to the autism label.
World’s oldest boomerang
Archaeologists say the 40,000 year old boomerang was fashioned from a mammoth’s tusk with an astonishing level of skill.
The neurodiversity meme and Descartes
Dyslexia, ADHD, autism, dyspraxia,...
ADHD UK’s complaint to Ofcom about Channel 4’s ADHD Myth
First a general comment. Dr Max...
Can you be right back and left behind?
Right and left change meaning when used with ‘back’ or ‘behind’.
Fingers not hands: one of the keys to Hitler’s success!
I constantly asked those in closest touch with Hitler in what his chief quality consisted. I was told almost unanimously, in his Fingerspitzengefuehl (tip of the finger feeling).”
“I know which is my left hand because I write with it!”
Saying "I know which is my left hand...
“I Don’t Know What’s Right and What’s Wrong”
This paper, I Don't Know What's Right...
Seldom seen: toddler with scribble pad – no tablet
The other Saturday, while waiting at a...
Look, wave, smile and the whole world round you looks, smiles and waves too!
This post has three phases; viewing an...
What is this phenomenon called ADHD?
Is ADHD a medical condition, a business opportunity for Big Pharma, or a consequence of the mis-match between the writing and the adept hand
Some will always misunderstand you
"Always remember that it is...
When the left hand does indeed know what the right hand is doing!
The more familiar phrase is the left...
When will they ever learn?
Republicans use button pushing slogans to persuade voters of their moral values
Where did the homunculus go?
ex-President Professor McKay of the British Psychological Society , In my Tribunal Hearing asked somewhat rhetorically : “All educational, all clinical, a,l forensic, indeed all psychologists ought to know about this work shouldn’t they!”
We have all the cards: Trump in a nutshell
Trump has himself stated that his world-view is that of dealing,
World’s oldest boomerang
BBC News 26/6/2025, Helen Briggs The...
Can’t tell your left from your right?
"This is when I began to understand...
Right and left structures: asteroid find upends story of life’s origin
The story about right and left...
Axel Rudakubana and Sara Sharif: a lack of co-ordination among the agencies or wrong assessment model
Lack of co-ordination among the various (child help) agengies isn’t the core problem in prevent the horrific crime committed by Axel Radukubana. It is the use of an inadequate assessment model by every agency
Violent minds: therapy or establishing the body-mind link?
The body and mind are a single system,...
Coleridge and Wordsworth and the finger vs the skewer
Coleridge and Wordsworth were more...
Hinduism: ear, evil eye and kohl
Every society has its norms. When you...
When the right hand is the wrong hand
I had noticed stories - countless...
Dalit Goddess English: pen and book
In 2010 the activist started a private...
The boundary between child neglect and abuse? Who’s autistic ?
The other week I was visiting Glasgow...
Naming isn’t explaining
Naming isn’t explaining! In the case...
Right hand man
The phrase 'right hand man' is a...
How my mother-in-law survived the camps. Left-die, right live
In her account of life in a Nazi...
Being left handed was not a good sign
An absolutely fascinating BBC2 film by...
After a two months coma and showing no signs of brain activity
But his father brought his son’s beloved French horn to his bedside. Rupert, who grew up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, began slowly moving his fingers along the valves in time to a Mozart recording.
Ecclesia (Christian church) – Synagogue (Jewish church)
Bill Cooke gave a talk on 4th December...
Reading Braille: Peter White – broadcaster who is blind
Source: Radio 4:...
Right eye, right hand and writing
Source: BBC4 The Fifty Years War:...