Re: Re: sudden thought re: NYT

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Her name is Amy Harmon, incidentally...

I've talked with her before, but there was something in her manner that made

it very hard for me to answer her questions. I have a difficult time doing

phone interviews in the first place, and I'm sure I came off sounding

rambling and inarticulate.

Re: sudden thought re: NYT

> She could say anything. I'm taking a gamble on her. She has written

> a few articles on technology, type things, one on how computer geeks

> are ticked off at the newbies who do things like download computer

> viruses when everyone should know by now not to click on attachments

> from strangers...

>

> I couldn't read the whole article, but the tone of the first part

> seemed to be balanced.

>

> You can search for her by writer name on the NYT website, Now I have

> forgotten her last name...Amy something starts with an " h " ....sheesh

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Yes, in fact it was for the same article she's working on now, presumably.

(I was under the impression it had already run, or the Times for some reason

had squelched it). She had noticed a statement of mine on this list (which

at the moment, I cannot remember, nor the context in which it was made) and

wanted to talk with me further.

However, when it came to the supposedly simple question of how I came to

believe I was AS, I froze. I could not confine that to a few simple

sentences in my introduction to this list, let alone in an interview. And I

have a far better time expressing myself in writing (something she by now

should have realized is true of most of us here).

I suspect she probably believes me to be a fraud, or that I have some other

problem unrelated to autism.

Re: sudden thought re: NYT

> >

> >

> > > She could say anything. I'm taking a gamble on her. She has written

> > > a few articles on technology, type things, one on how computer geeks

> > > are ticked off at the newbies who do things like download computer

> > > viruses when everyone should know by now not to click on attachments

> > > from strangers...

> > >

> > > I couldn't read the whole article, but the tone of the first part

> > > seemed to be balanced.

> > >

> > > You can search for her by writer name on the NYT website, Now I have

> > > forgotten her last name...Amy something starts with an " h " ....sheesh

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

alfamanda wrote:

>

> > She had noticed a statement of mine on this list (which at the

> > moment, I cannot remember, nor the context in which it was made)

> > and wanted to talk with me further.

>

> On THIS list?

>

> Are you sure?

>

> She shouldn't even *be* on this list unless she's autistic.

She's not. Not unless she used a pseudonym and claimed to be on the

spectrum...

[Guest guest]

Hi,

It might not have been this list--she cross-posts to a number of them, like

AS-and-Proud-of-It. As I recall, she had permission to be there.

Re: Re: sudden thought re: NYT

> alfamanda wrote:

>

> >

> > > She had noticed a statement of mine on this list (which at the

> > > moment, I cannot remember, nor the context in which it was made)

> > > and wanted to talk with me further.

> >

> > On THIS list?

> >

> > Are you sure?

> >

> > She shouldn't even *be* on this list unless she's autistic.

>

> She's not. Not unless she used a pseudonym and claimed to be on the

> spectrum...

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

At 09:14 AM 4/19/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>

> > She had noticed a statement of mine on this list (which

> > at the moment, I cannot remember, nor the context in which it was

> > made) and wanted to talk with me further.

>

>On THIS list?

>

>Are you sure?

>

>She shouldn't even *be* on this list unless she's autistic.

>

>

She on the artisms_ & _autistry list.....

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