Archive for September, 2009
There is a lot going on in the autism blogging world at the moment in response to the new Autism Speaks advertisement. It is a bit more difficult for me to post what I think on it because I am in Australia, there is nothing like that here. So I can’t see for myself the effect it is having on people – autistic and non-autistic.
My mum liked the second half of it, where all the families were were standing with the autistic person. But she didn’t know what to make of the first half. The parts with all those statements about what autism will do…how does anyone know what autism will do?
So here it is:
Apparently Autism Speaks has now withdrawn it from their site due to the amount of protests against it.
Just a general post I guess, because I wanted to post my result from the Spacefem Colour Quiz. Here it is:
| you are darkolivegreen #556B2F |
Your dominant hues are green and yellow. There’s no doubt about the fact that you think with your head, but you don’t want to be seen as boring and want people to know about your adventurous streak now and again. Your saturation level is medium – You’re not the most decisive go-getter, but you can get a job done when it’s required of you. You probably don’t think the world can change for you and don’t want to spend too much effort trying to force it. Your outlook on life is slightly darker than most people’s. You try to see things for what they are and face situations honestly. You’d rather get to the point than look for what’s good. |
| the spacefem.com html color quiz |
To all those Russian Spambots: Bugger off! I will not go to your party, you cannot drive my car and I don’t want your medication!
I am slowly getting used to being at university again after a month’s break. Even though this is my second semester, I still feel like the “new person”. But I like it there, I like having something to do and I like to hand in my work when it is completed. Otherwise, I have a general feeling of mild panic about the work I have to hand in and the social vibe that is a constant there.
I have one friend that was in my Foundation Unit last semester – she shares one lecture with me for our Psychological Health & Wellbeing unit. Art/Creative Writing is her major whereas Psychology is mine. So the Psychology unit she is doing this semester is an elective. I don’t have electives as there are so many psychology units. My path is mapped out except for the type of psychology I want to do which I haven’t decided on yet.
I have one huge assignment for Psychological Health & Wellbeing that is due at the end of semester and it is a Self-Management Project. We have to improve something in our lives and I have chosen study skills as mine are pretty rotten. They are all over the place and I don’t get things finished until the day they are due in which does nothing for my anxiety. I was rotten at studying at high school (which explains the Fail grades) and I don’t want to repeat it here because I actually care about what I am studying. I want to please myself as to how I do at university. So this experiment on myself should help me gain better studying habits. I have already chosen two interventions to use.
I have handed in one assignment for Psychological Research Methods (a.k.a The Psychological Horror of Statistics) and have another to hand in next week. We have covered measures of central tendency and are now up to z-scores and statistics and t-scores. I am slow at understanding it but I do get there in the end, I just have to be quick enough to get there before assignments are due in. I have a feeling my last assignment didn’t go so well and am dreading getting it back.
For Applications of Psychology, I have to give a 10 minute presentation next week about registering to be a psychologist. I am thinking that I find it difficult to speak for one minute let alone 10 minutes. So I have found the pile of forms on the internet that have to be filled out if a person wants to be a psychologist (there are pages and pages). As we are not able to use Powerpoint (I still don’t understand why) I have to convert photocopies to overhead projector pages. I think it will cost a lot. But it will be worth it if I show these to the class instead of talking for 10 minutes straight. I will say a few things. Maybe, “If you don’t like filling out forms then Psychology is not for you.” I am really not looking forward to the presentation and will probably feel sick, dizzy and light-headed but I have to go through with it.
This is all I have to say today – I have to go to a lecture in about ten minutes.
