The Autistic Resistance
The purpose of this website is to spread love, science, and all other things good. My favorite event in secular history is the Christmas Truce at No-Man’s-Land in 1914. Which is why the cover photo is a frame from my favorite song’s music video, Taylor Swift’s “Love Story”. It was used because, ostensibly, being a happy ending to Romeo & Juliet, it is the conquest of hatred by love. It is making-out in no-man’s-land to defy the darkness and hatred of the human condition with light and grace to symbolically and literally end a war and do it without the very lie which tries to romanticize the ugliness of the ritual of war: martyrdom. Taylor Swift is more famous than anything in World War One so, hopefully, it is a more relatable image that sends the same message.
- Autism & EmpathyOne commonly cited symptom of autism is our apparent lack of empathy. It conveys the idea that we’re hard, STEM-oriented, robots without the capacity for human connection. The fact is, while there are large portions of the autistic population whoContinue reading “Autism & Empathy”
- The System To Handle BullyingWhen I expound on my history of being bullied, my tactics regarding how I handled it are almost universally objected to. That of peer-to-peer diplomacy as opposed to beating them up or involving vice principals or the police. The ideaContinue reading “The System To Handle Bullying”
- The College and Mental HealthBy, Jackson Hamilton To my name, I claim 135 college credits at the College of Charleston. To graduate, I would need 122. The reason for the difference is largely owing to a myriad of factors but all summing up to sayContinue reading “The College and Mental Health”
Scenes of Humanity
The Fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989
The Cellist of Sarajevo in September 1992
The Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western Front
Contact Info:
- My number is (843) 870-4276
- My emails are hamiltonj1@g.cofc.edu and jacksonhamiltoniv@outlook.com
