#Dr camilla pang

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A few weeks ago, I saw this book on the library

I tend to pick up anything I can find on autism because there's not much out there and also some of what is portrays autistic people or autism in a purely negative light which I find upsetting and overwhelming to read even if I know it's true for some autistic people.

Anyways, this book immediately caught my attention and then when I read the blurb I knew this was exactly my sort of thing.

Part of the reason I love science is because it helps make things make sense and in a world where for me so many things don't seem to make sense, science is a lifeline that I can understand. Science is a tool I use to understand the world and also to understand more about myself and the way my brain works. When I experienced autistic burnout, when I was feeling overwhelmed and anxious and I didn't know where to turn, I looked to see if I could find any published research papers on burnout. (the lack of research into autistic burnout is something I am hoping to address at some point too). The single study I did find was invaluable to me. Science can provide reassurance that there is a reason and an explanation for things that you are experiencing.

This book seems to be based very strongly on this idea that science can help us understand ourselves and be happier not just through the facts we can learn but through the other lessons those facts can teach us. I knew most of the science already (as the book is directed at younger children) but there were ideas I hadn't thought of before that could actually be very helpful

Some of my favourite ideas were :

The different properties of metal and how this makes them useful is a good illustration of why it is important to have difference

We could model influences and priorities in our life as forces (like a free body) . I love graphs and diagrams and I think they can be useful in lots of situations not just experiments.

We could use our understanding of sunlight providing energy for photosynthesis as a way to consider how different things can give us energy back in our lives eg. Our passions and interests. This also suggests that this is a natural thing to need.

Everyone is adapted to their own personal habitat similarly to different animals being adapted to theirs. Stepping out of your comfort zone is a bit like adapting to a new habitat.

I think that the contents and information in this book would have been more revolutionary for me as a child however now the more revolutionary thing is that it exists, that there is an autistic person, an autistic woman who is living all of my dreams. Because I hope and I do my best and I work hard but in the back of my mind I think some people will think I'll never be a real scientist. Watching a video of Dr pang talking and seeing that her eye contact is different to most people's, but similar to mine. And that that isn't important because she's talking about subjects she's so passionate about. That's what means so much to me. That helps me keep going.

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These books are written "geared towards" adults and older teens. I personally would let my teen read all of these, so I'm not gatekeeping literature, but use your own judgement on what you think is acceptable for your own kid to read.

Nonfictional Books for adults:

All the weight of our dreams by Lydia XZ Brown

Stim: an autistic anthology edited by Lizzie Huxley-Jones

Connecting with Autism by Casey Corner

Sincerely your Autistic child by AWNN

Uniquely human by Barry m prizant

Engaging autism by Stanley Greenspan

Raising human beings by Ross Greene

Beyond behaviours by Mona delahooke

The whole brain child by Dan Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson

Autism and gender by Jordynn Jack

It's your weirdness that makes you wonderful Kate Allan

Women and girls with autism spectrum disorder Sarah Hendrick

Worlds of Autism by Joyce davidson

Authoring autism by melanie yergeau

Nerdy Shy and Socially Inappropriate Cynthia Kim

Autistic disturbances by julie rodas

War on Autism by Annie McGuire

Rethinking autism diagnosis by kathenne Cole, Rebecca mallet, and sammy

Leaders all around me by Edlyn Vallejo Peña, PhD

Ido in autismland by Ido Kedar

Typed words loud voices by Amy Sequenzia & Elizabeth J. Grace

It's an autism thing by Emma Dalmayne

What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew by Autism Women’s Network

Women on the Spectrum: A Handbook for Life by Emma Goodall and Yenn Purkis

Unmasking autism by Devon Price

Neurotribes by Steve Silberman

Love, Partnership or Singleton on the Autism Spectrum & Bittersweet on the Autism Spectrum, both edited by Luke Beardon and Dean Worton

Autism, Anxiety and Me: A Diary in Even Numbers by Emma Louise Bridge & Penelope Bridge

Autism: A New Introduction to Psychological Theory and Current Debate by Sue Fletcher-Watson and Francesca Happé

A Practical Guide to Happiness in Adults on the Autism Spectrum: A Positive Psychology Approach by Victoria Honeybourne

Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism by Eva A. Mendes and Meredith R. Maroney

The Guide to Good Mental Health on the Autism Spectrum by Jeanette Purkis, Dr. Emma Goodall and Dr. Jane Nugent

Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After by Chloe Hayden

Memoirs:

Odd Girl Out by Laura James

Uncomfortable Labels by Laura Kate Dale

Drama Queen by Sara Gibbs

The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May

Fall down Seven Times Get Up Eight by Naoki Higashida

The Reason I Jump by Naomi Hashida

The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May

Wintering by Katherine May

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

Explaining Humans by Dr. Camilla Pang

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham

Adult Fiction:

Adult Virgins Anonymous by Amber Crewe

Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan

A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Failure to Communicate by Kaia Sønderby

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

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Dr Camilla Pang reads from Explaining Humans

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currently reading: a book i borrowed from my gf, its called 'explaining humans: what science can teach us about life, love and relationships' by dr camilla pang - an autistic computational biologist. the book is basically a guide on how to navigate life as an autistic individual..its pretty helpful and interesting so far.

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last series: succession .. sorry

last movie: the fifth element

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currently working on: nothig special tch.. getting out of bed -_-

i tag: @comingtoyoursenses @phillipthehermit @markiplier @mielcite @swaddledintissue + literally anyone else who wants to join....tell me about urself *bats luscious lashes*

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Most if not all that Taylor is most intelligent in are things that benefit her, unfortunately.

Well it’s a two way street right she’s a prodigy when it comes to music which yes is effort but also talent and she’s very smart on business but like yes if you have a multimillion dollar business to run you’re gonna think about how to improve said business instead of worrying about idk reading Dr Camilla Pang’s books because while they were legit very interesting I don’t think Taylor has time or cares.

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Neurodivergent author Camilla Pang’s Explaining Humans wins Royal Society prize | Books | The Guardian

"Dr Camilla Pang, whose debut uses science to explore the complexities of human behaviour through the prism of her autism spectrum disorder, has won the prestigious Royal Society science book prize.

At 28, the post-doctoral scientist is both the youngest writer ever to win the £25,000 prize, and the first writer of colour. She beat former winners Bill Bryson and Gaia Vince to take the award for Explaining Humans, which chair of judges Professor Anne Osbourn called “an intelligent and charming investigation into how we understand human behaviour, drawing on the author’s superpower of neurodivergence”.

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This made me burst into tears. This is how we defend our existence.

This is why I plan to self publish fiction books about a group of autistic psionics with chronic illness disorders.

Someone needs literally spell it out for the neurotypicals.

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Some books I’ve been reading recently - because it’s been too long since I wrote enthusiastically about things I’ve read.

Bill Bryson’s ‘The Body’ - This is the first of his books I’ve ever read and I really enjoyed his writing style. Some concepts are explained very in a very simplified fashion and although for anyone who’s studied biology to a great extent, a lot of the information will be familiar, his writing style is still very engaging and there are lots of interesting facts and anecdotes that are fun to read! For people who are less familiar with the subject I think this book does a great job of explaining things in a very accessible and understandable way and I’d recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning about the body and how our understanding of it developed over time.

Dr. Camilla Pang’s ‘Explaining Humans’ - I’ve not got very far through this book yet but I’m really enjoying it. The author is a scientist with ASD and ADHD and the concept behind the book is to create a ‘handbook for understanding humans’. I’ve never read anything like it before and I love the way she applies molecular science to human behaviour. It also includes some brilliant diagrams (see the middle photo for some proteins to illustrate personality types) and has a very pretty cover!

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Tag Game

Tagged by: @singinprincess, thanks hon!

Last song: Kings & Queens- Ava Max

Last movie: The Amateurs

Currently watching: How to Get Away with Murder

Currently reading: I’m at my best when I’m reading multiple books at a time, and I’ve got a few going right now. I just finished An Outsider’s Guide to Humans by Dr. Camilla Pang (it’s amazing and I recommend it to everyone!). I’m reading The End of Religion by Bruxy Cavey, it’s a book about Christianity but it’s accessible to people of other religions as well. I’m also reading El Juego del Angel (yes, in Spanish, yes it’s taking forever) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I’m also about to start The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton which I’m excited about because yay murder mysteries. I may also start a Harry Potter reread.

Currently craving: Chocolate

Tagging: @delovelie, @therubbleoroursins, @fireheartedkaratepup, and anyone else who wants to do this!

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Camilla

Profile of Dr Camilla Pang

Commissioned by Media Trust, for Lightyear Foundation

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I've been feeling a bit worried lately about my potential future as a scientist because of attitudes towards autistic people but the good thing about this is it reminded me I have been wanting to make a post about Camilla Pang.

Dr Camilla Pang is a research scientist with a PhD in bio informatics and she particularly loves proteins. She has published 5 books and 2 more are expected this year. She has been diagnosed with autism and adhd.

I immediately tend to admire all women in STEM because every woman that is successful proves we can do it and every woman that is successful has likely had to fight and prove herself repeatedly to achieve that success. But when I saw Dr Pang speak in a video for the lightyear foundation I cried. Because her eye contact pattern is similar to mine and not like most people's. And because that didn't matter. It didn't make her any less knowledgeable, it didn't seem to make anyone less interested in what she had to say. And to learn she's also done a Ted talk and she's published multiple books. She is living my wildest dreams and that day I felt she reminded me I might be able to one day too. It was such a tiny thing and it was just luck that I stumbled across her book in the library but I am so glad I did and I hope I might read some of her other books. I also hope more people will find out about her from this post as I think she's awesome.

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Autism: Many women with autism are misdiagnosed - signs include mimicry and social ability

Autism: Many women with autism are misdiagnosed – signs include mimicry and social ability

“The women I work with are often diagnosed because their children are being diagnosed and they recognise similar traits in themselves.” But others, like autistic scientist and author Dr Camilla Pang, disagree with this. She noted: “I feel autistic women are more likely to be described as ‘anxious’ and an autism diagnosis overlooked.” The National Autistic Society charity lists different reasons…

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📚✨ 2020 BOOK COLLAGE ✨📚

A few days late as I had to wait until I finished a multiple of 6. But here is my complete end of year book grid!

Last year I read more books than I ever have in a single 12 months.

This was partially (mostly?) due to the lockdown, but also because I prioritised reading more than ever. In the past I’ve always felt guilty about getting my head stuck in a book since I’ve always felt there were more important things to do. I FINALLY got rid of this silly belief and found an incredible joy in reading that I haven’t before. And for a year in which I had to challenge my beliefs, question everything and explore myself, it was essential.

I got so busy with life by the end of the year that in the last 2 months I only read a couple of books, and now my bookshelves are bursting at the seams. I cannot wait to get stuck into some fab reads again in 2021!

My absolute top 5 from this year were:

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Mind the Gap - Dr Karen Gurney

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

Boys & Sex - Peggy Orenstein

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex - Angela Chen

See below for a full list:

One Day in December - Josie Silver

*Looking for Alaska - John Green

Where The Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt

The Little Teashop on Main - Jodi Thomas

Love - Leo F. Buscaglia

Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

Surrounded by Idiots - Thomas Erikson

Countless - Karen Gregory

All Along You Were Blooming - Morgan Harper Nichols

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Period. - Emma Barnett

Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour - Morgan Matson

Normal People - Sally Rooney

The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes

Mountains of the Mind - Robert Macfarlane

The Flatshare - Beth O’Leary

Londoners - Craig Taylor

More Than This - Patrick Ness

The Silent Treatment - Abbie Greaves

Mind the Gap - Dr Karen Gurney

The Wild Remedy - Emma Mitchell

The Couple Next Door - Shari Lapena

Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad

How To Argue With a Racist - Adam Rutherford

This Is Going To Hurt - Adam Kay

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney

The Invisible Orientation - Julie Sondra Decker

Second Chance Summer - Morgan Matson

Women Don’t Owe You Pretty - Florence Given

The Man They Wanted Me to Be - Jared Yates Sexton

White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo

One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus

One of Us is Next - Karen M. McManus

How To Be Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable - Ben Aldridge

Come As You Are - Emily Nagoski

Dear NHS - Adam Kay

Mama’s Boy - Dustin Lance Black

The Good Immigrant - Nikesh Shukla

The Sober Diaries - Clare Pooley

Boys & Sex - Peggy Orenstein

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird - Josie Silver

Delivered from Distraction - Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey

The Simple Guide to Attachment Difficulties in Children - Betsy de Thierry

The Simple Guide to Child Trauma - Betsy de Thierry

Explaining Humans - Camilla Pang

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex - Angela Chen

Girls & Sex - Peggy Orenstein

Home Body - Rupi Kaur

The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary - Catherine Gray

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy

*denotes having read previously

(NB this list does not include unpublished works).

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Review: Explaining Humans, by Dr Camilla Pang

Review: Explaining Humans, by Dr Camilla Pang

This book is truly exceptional. Applying science to the problems of human relationships, the perils of perfectionism and the pitfalls of social etiquette, Millie has written a joyous, funny and hugely insightful text for all of us – whether neurotypical or neurodiverse. This ‘outsiders guide to the human race’ is warm, witty and a joy to read.’ Prof Gina Rippon, Cognitive neuroscientist/autism…

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Today I had the privelege of attending a talk from Dr Beth Healey. She is a medical researcher and works with space programmes to help them plan for the physiological and psychological affects missions may have on astronauts. I might make another post to explore more about this.

One of the ideas she talked about was her love of exploration, how she'd always wanted to be an explorer when she was little and how she feels research is actually very close to that.

I told her after the talk that I am in awe of her and her career and she said she was jealous of us as we had it all ahead of us.

I've been reflecting on this as I feel there's so much pressure to be at a certain point that we often feel like we're just pushing through until we get there. But one of the things I love most about research is the process of trying to find out. That is research, if we just skipped to the part where we knew, there would be no need for research. I've been thinking lately about how science can help us understand life not just in a literal way but a metaphorical one too (I've been reading a book by Dr camilla pang and it explores this ) and I think that it's important to remember that while we're trying to get to our goals, whether that's a research goal or more generally a life goal we are on that expedition and that's one of the best parts.

There's so many pressures in life and I think one of the most important things is to remember why you love the thing you're doing right now, in this case science. If you don't love it then it's hard of course but I've been finding lately that I've been struggling with subjects I love just because I'm so tired. Focusing on the end goal makes me more overwhelmed but remembering why I love science, at this point of the expedition, makes me feel a lot better.

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Best science books of 2020 | Books

In considered one of many surprising outcomes of 2020, “the science” has change into large information. Politicians are claiming it, protesters are disputing it, and hastily everyone seems to be an knowledgeable on superspreader occasions, RNA vaccines and what occurs on the backside of an Excel spreadsheet. It’s arduous to know who to belief, and it’s extra essential than ever that the general public has a fundamental understanding of what “science” says, so we’re much less more likely to be deceived. Thankfully, various wonderful writers are right here to make it accessible, absorbing and staggeringly informative.

The topical Outbreaks and Epidemics by Meera Senthilingam (Icon), for instance, is full of data on the historical past and context of ailments we expect we find out about. It explains how efficient monitor and hint, mixed with an intensive vaccination programme, was essential within the eradication of smallpox, and why local weather disaster and drug resistance make future pandemics extra probably. It additional exhibits how politics impacts the best way we deal with illness: the chapter on tuberculosis is titled “What occurs when no one cares”. It even manages a last-minute replace about Covid-19. (We might have been much more prepared if we’d actually wished to be.)

Adam Kucharski’s The Rules of Contagion (Wellcome Assortment) additionally affords nice explanations of the R-number, herd immunity and mathematical modelling, however its intention is to use the rules of epidemiology to different “infections” – from monetary contagion, gun violence and the ice-bucket problem to advertising, innovation and tradition. We all know now that the pre-2008 banking system had “huge potential for superspreading”, for instance, and we will use “public well being” theories to fight knife crime. It additionally demonstrates why scientific fashions can’t totally account for the unfold of illness. After dropping a fortune within the South Sea Bubble, Isaac Newton apparently complained: “I can calculate the movement of heavenly our bodies however not the insanity of individuals.”

The weirdness of individuals is the inspiration for Explaining Humans by Dr Camilla Pang (Viking), a biochemist who has autism spectrum dysfunction and ADHD. She describes the e-book, which received the 2020 Royal Society prize, as “the handbook I … all the time wanted” to grasp human behaviour and the way to slot in, and it does a unprecedented job of explaining how Bayes’s theorem applies to relationships, what sport principle can train us about etiquette, and why a tidy bed room is an affront to the second legislation of thermodynamics. It additionally introduces complicated concepts to non-scientists in a heat and memorable approach, whereas celebrating and demystifying neurodiversity: “ASD and ADHD are my {qualifications} each bit as a lot as my PhD,” Pang argues.

The Great Pretender (Canongate) was additionally impressed by a private story. Its writer, Susannah Cahalan, was recognized as having schizophrenia and nearly bought misplaced within the psychological well being system, till a persistent physician discovered a bodily prognosis for her situation and she or he was cured. Her subsequent questioning of the division between “psychological” and “bodily” sickness led her to uncover a well-known research from 1973, wherein a bunch of mentally wholesome researchers offered themselves at psychiatric hospitals, complaining they may hear voices, and had been recognized as having critical psychiatric diseases. The experiment rocked the world of psychiatry, however Cahalan’s analysis suggests that every one was not because it appeared. The e-book is a unbelievable scoop, a captivating historical past of psychiatry and a strong argument for why science is commonly about difficult accepted knowledge.

Linda Scott probably had some private causes for writing The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women’s Empowerment (Faber), however the end result is without doubt one of the most goal, data-led, rigorously scientific and morally persuasive books of the 12 months. Scott’s argument is straightforward: “Equal financial therapy for ladies would put a cease to a number of the world’s costliest evils, whereas constructing prosperity for everybody.” She backs it up with financial, environmental and evolutionary science whereas proposing “concrete, cheap and efficient motion”. By no means earlier than has an evaluation of supply-chain economics resulted in so many fists within the air. This can be a e-book that can make individuals suppose, and act.

A galaxy photographed by the Hubble telescope … Hawking’s biography digresses into favorite topics such black holes. {Photograph}: Alamy

Some of the touching biographies of the 12 months exhibits the human facet of the nice physicist Stephen Hawking, as seen by his buddy and collaborator Leonard Mlodinow (Allen Lane). With admirably easy-to-grasp digressions into favorite topics resembling Einstein, darkish vitality and black holes, Mlodinow tells us about Hawking the person. We study that he didn’t like physics in school as a result of Newton was boring and the way he “was nourished by love as a lot as physics”. He additionally saved in his pc’s voice the canned phrase, “Thanks, however did you end it?”, for followers who approached him to go with his e-book.

Samanth Subramanian’s biography of JBS Haldane, A Dominant Character (Atlantic), reveals one other flawed and sensible scientist. A geneticist who helped to outline our understanding of evolutionary biology, Haldane was described by Arthur C Clarke as “essentially the most sensible scientific populariser of his technology”, and by a scholar as “the final man who knew all there was to be identified”, however he additionally excused Stalin’s assaults on scientists and science. The e-book exhibits how politics and science are sometimes sure up collectively, and the risks of permitting political rules to deprave scientific concepts. It’s deliciously stuffed with hazard, journey and scandal.

Maybe essentially the most uncommon science e-book of the 12 months is Sand Discuss by Tyson Yunkaporta (Textual content), which he describes as “a collection of yarns with numerous individuals who all make me really feel uncomfortable”. Yunkaporta examines topics resembling meals, medication, gender relations and monetary and environmental programs through the use of visible symbols to symbolize his considering – he carves objects, and attracts photos in sand. “I’m not reporting on Indigenous Data programs for a worldwide viewers’s perspective,” he says. “I’m analyzing world programs from an Indigenous Data perspective.” It’s a dramatically new (to some) and absorbing approach of partaking with the world, and stops simply in need of exasperation with self-important “western science”. “Foolish considering is one thing everyone is responsible of sometimes,” Yunkaporta writes. “It’s forgivable so long as you’re nonetheless listening.” It illustrates completely that there is no such thing as a such factor as “the science”, that we should always query anybody who tries to assert scientific thought as their very own, and that mental curiosity is all the things.

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