{"id":2746,"date":"2010-08-23T16:42:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2010-08-23T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:42:04","slug":"our_ways_must_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2746","title":{"rendered":"Our Ways Must Seem Strange To You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR is running a series of stories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128245649\">examining human evolution<\/a> and how it has influenced our species&#8217; rise to dominance. Today&#8217;s feature profiles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129379866\">human social behavior as seen through the eyes of Lisa Daxer<\/a>, a college student with autism. Lisa likens herself to a resident alien studying human social customs. She also talks openly about how her own difficulties in deciphering social cues led to a struggle with depression. Lisa&#8217;s aptly titled blog <a href=\"http:\/\/chaoticidealism.livejournal.com\/\">Reports from a Resident Alien<\/a> is a great source for further reading about her take on living with autism and her adventures in higher education. Her entry <a href=\"http:\/\/chaoticidealism.livejournal.com\/80330.html\">urging people with autism<\/a> to identify with the disability rights movement is particularly insightful (if one overlooks her adulation of a certain Stephen Hawking).<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR is running a series of stories examining human evolution and how it has influenced our species&#8217; rise to dominance. Today&#8217;s feature profiles human social behavior as seen through the eyes of Lisa Daxer, a college student with autism. Lisa likens herself to a resident alien studying human social customs. She also talks openly about <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2746' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Ii","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}