Sunday, January 15, 2012

Autism is usually viewed as a disorder, and technically, it is. Though I have read up quite a bit about it, and also known a few in my life, I realize that they're not mentally retarded. It's hard to convince people of it but this video does it pretty well.

The thing is, autism is kind of a mutation in the synapses of our brains, which screws up the social interaction part of us. However, due to that slight difference, there are many autistic people who actually develop incredible skills. They're also known as savants.

Proof? Beethoven and Mozart. Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin are also suspected of autism (though it's not confirmed because it doesn't have a name then, but the symptoms correlate)

It's like giving up social skills in return of a highly advanced function in your brain. They see the world very differently from us.

The famous people are only famous because they "retain enough social skills" and are given the chance to express themselves.

I truly believe that all autistic people are inherently intelligent. They just couldn't express themselves. I really believe that they are just minds trapped within a body that they cannot control.

"That's why you sometimes hear people describing them as tormented geniuses." 

Well, so here's the thing. We, the "normal" people have the ability to express ourselves out loud. Yet we usually don't, we keep shit bottled up inside of us until we burst, break down and get into a depression. We have a voice that could change the world, use it. 

I think that everyone views the world differently from others. We can be looking at the same image but we're definitely not interpreting it the same way. Which is why I like to shoot random pictures. It's simply me saying.

Can you see what I'm seeing?


I can't express what I feel in words, but what do you feel when you see this?

I guess the thing I realized is that, the friend you know, definitely isn't the person you think he is. It's impossible to convey our perception. But well, I'm sure we'll succeed if we just keep trying.

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Sunday, January 01, 2012

That was literally the fireworks that I saw.

No seriously. Because we decided to celebrate it at East Coast Park. (man, how many times have I went there recently?)


Back to the "fireworks", they're not fireworks of course, they're actually flares fired off from the ships off the coast, which is pretty darn cool if you ask me. When 2012 finally arrived all the ships started honking(?) in cohesion.

It cannot be compared to the splendor we would've witnessed if we went to town, but since subtlety is our goal I'll say we achieved that pretty nicely.

Before I get too carried away, let me first wish everyone a

2012 came faster that I thought it would and very soon I'll be older by another year again, time just grips on my throat tighter and tighter each passing year.

I've been asking people around about their resolutions, but  maybe we're too old for new year resolutions, or maybe we know it doesn't work, but no one seems to have any. Of course, I could give an exhausting list of goals for 2012, but after thinking about it for awhile, I only have one.

1. Stop wasting time.

When I looked back every year, it's not that I didn't do anything significant to improve myself one way or another, but I waste too much time focusing on things that are not important to me. So here's to myself in the next 364 days, stop wasting my time, seriously.

Now I've gotten past the obligatory opening speech, here's what I did for count down to 2012

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