Category: DisC

Is High Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome Associated with High Functioning Brilliance?

Is High Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome Associated with High Functioning Brilliance?

Many people known to be diagnosed in the spectrum of autism are brilliant scientists, anthropologists, physicists, mathematicians, and economists. Albert Einstein and Newton were both considered to be “consistent” in […]

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DisC Proudly Supports: RASP Books & An Anthology of Dyslexic Writing

DisC Proudly Supports: RASP Books & An Anthology of Dyslexic Writing

[Image: Famous People with Dyslexia]   Different Is Cool is very excited that our original Patron of Cool, Margaret Atwood, has turned us on to a most worthwhile cause, RASP Books, […]

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DisC Book Recommendation: The Element ~ How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

DisC Book Recommendation: The Element ~ How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

You may be familiar with the work of Sir Ken Robinson – he’s considered the world’s leading thinker on creativity & creative thinking.  He has worked around the world in […]

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Fill In The Blank: What Makes You Different, Makes You ________. [Daredevil Edition]

Fill In The Blank: What Makes You Different, Makes You ________. [Daredevil Edition]

[Photo AP: Swiss highwire acrobat Freddy Nock walks along a 2-inch wide cable car wire more than 10,000 feet above the ground – without a balancing pole, harness or safety […]

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What’s more important: being good-looking or making a societal contribution?

What’s more important: being good-looking or making a societal contribution?

The young woman is instantly recognizable, the gentleman, probably not. The pretty young woman is American reality television star, Kim Kardashian.  Even if you’ve never seen an episode of her […]

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Friendship

Friendship

[“Hawkeye” the dog lies in front of his slain friend’s casket, US Navy Seal Jon Tumilson. Photo: Lisa Pembleton]   You’ve likely seen this widely viewed, poignant image taken on […]

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The OTHER Happiest Place on Earth – Belwood Lodge & Camp

The OTHER Happiest Place on Earth – Belwood Lodge & Camp

Belwood Camp & Lodge [All Photos Courtesy of Belwood Camp]   For a few years now, our brother Edric [an adult with autism] has spent 2 to 3 weeks each […]

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The DisC List: 10 Great Living Female Role Models [Int’l Women’s Day Edition]

The DisC List: 10 Great Living Female Role Models [Int’l Women’s Day Edition]

In honour of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, an organization that was created to promote equal rights for women worldwide, Different Is Cool has put together our list of […]

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Of All The Gifts, The Greatest is LOVE…

Of All The Gifts, The Greatest is LOVE…

…give it, receive it. Happy Valentine’s Day from Different Is Cool. WE LOVE YOU. Here’s one of the sweetest marriage proposals we’ve ever seen…. :-)))

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And so this is Christmas…

And so this is Christmas…

…and what have you done? Those are the questioning words of John Lennon, from his 1971 classic “Happy Xmas – War is Over”. We are beyond thrilled to say that […]

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