On silentmiaow And then Rambling on to Me

I have been noticing people noticing silentmiaow on YouTube. I first came across her blog Ballastexistenz on a link from Autism Diva (found on Mind Hacks blog). I then found silentmiaow from a link on Boing Boing. I also found a link to an MetaFilter thing on a link from submit response blog.

So some buzz. On MetaFilter especially. Some People responding to the opening post want to defend certain ways of comprehending, processing and understanding the world, valuing only certain ways and ignoring other ways. Though it is heartening to see there are many who are willing to open up to difference and that don't want to impose their limitaions upon everyone else's experience, and their right to their experiences.
Read Life's Infinite Riches (a post at ballastexistenz) to get a feel for what "other ways of being" I am talking about.

Here is a comment in reply to Life's Infinite Riches that I agree with. Or rather I read it in a way that it would agree with the things I have noticed. Namely that: the world around you and the stuff of the things around you (I mean like media, the objects around you, the things people say and the things they do) show you what you should do with your attention and, time and thoughts, tell you what is important and unimportant. If the way you are and the things that interest you are sanctioned/encouraged by society then this is fine, but if the way you are and your interests and things that you want to pursue are not sanctioned/encouraged by society then there is a whole part of yourself that, if you aren't aware, ends up atrophying. Otherwise why are we encouraged by those who make us realise that it is possible to do certain things, for a simple e.g. Edward de Bono and his concept of lateral thinking said that it's OK to spend you time doing these things and thinking in this way. I think that rather than having invented lateral thinking he made it more acceptable. If things can be shown to be useful to business then in our society that make it worthwhile, this is what he did/does with lateral thinking - Before it might be thought of as idle daydreaming, but now it could lead to money making so now there are people having meetings coming up with kerrzaay (!) ideas as part of a process. Anyway the point is not about de Bono it is about how we take our cues and we live our lives by what everthing around us tells us. And the things that tell us so by their shape (rather than explicitly) do so more powerfully.
Anyway this post is rambling along and now is about something else. All about me again.