I get to speak at this faculty studded event.
I start at 1:14:08
The Big Game
Kinda thrilled to see 2 Big Game wins (Stanford/Cal friendly rivalry) during my time here at Cal.
And it was a resounding win too with 2 records.
Supports, Skills & Society - Integral Adult Autism Conference
Keynote at this conference.
https://integralautism.org/presenters
UC Berkeley Diversity Academy 2021
A opportunity to present to faculty from an undergraduate student perspective.
Campus Change Maker
This is so cool. Thank you UC Berkeley.
Bringing Disability Awareness & Visibility to Sproul Plaza!
Visit our table on Sproul Plaza today from 9 to noon to connect with student groups and campus resources including: The Disabled Students Commission, Berkeley Disabled Students Group (BDS), Spectrum at Cal, OCD at Cal, CAPS, RSF, DSP, and the DCC!
As part of Disability Awareness Month celebrations, we are uplifting the work and stories of a series of Change Makers from the Disability Community. This week, we are highlighting the contributions of Hari Srinivasan. Undergraduate student, instructor of the Autism DeCal, and journalist at the Daily Cal.
Image Description: A photo of Hari standing on a bridge on UC Berkeley's campus. Text reads: Hari Srinivasan. Undergraduate student and instructor. There is a quote from Hari next to it that reads, "I want you to think of disability as possibility too. Only when you think of possibility can the door of opportunity be opened."
Recruiting autistic participants for Research Study
Please participate if you are above age 18, autistic and live in the US.
Scan for the consent form (takes 1 minute to complete)
Recruiting Autistic participants for a research study on autism (by an autistic for autistics)Title: The Autistic Experience of Awe: Can Awe Become a Tool in the Autistic Coping Toolbox?
You are invited to participate if you
1._Identify as autistic (or have an autism diagnosis)
2. Above age 18 and live in the USA
If you would like to participate, please fill out the consent form. https://tinyurl.com/aweconsent
The study will be in english, completely online and takes approximately an hour. It will involve written narratives and multichoice type questions on emotions.
There is no direct benefit to you from this study. However I hope to find broader applications for the autistic community.
For any questions, please contact the student researcher, Hari Srinivasan harisri@berkeley.edu
Insights from CBT
This is not my fault
I didn't do this on purpose.
It's not fair to judge myself, because its not accurate to judge yourself.
Remind myself, Don't judge myself for judging myself.
Take Care and Don't Ever Give up
What a lovely message to wake upto in my inbox today
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Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:36 AM
Hi Hari,
I hope this email finds you well
I am writing from Perth, Australia. I am writing just to let you know that I have found your message and story inspiring
I am the father of a 6 year old autistic boy and I cannot stress enough how your work and messages has giving me so many ideas to assist my little one to live in a non-autistic ready world
Take care and don't ever give up
Hi Hari,
I hope this email finds you well
I am writing from Perth, Australia. I am writing just to let you know that I have found your message and story inspiring
I am the father of a 6 year old autistic boy and I cannot stress enough how your work and messages has giving me so many ideas to assist my little one to live in a non-autistic ready world
Take care and don't ever give up
Believe in the Impossible.
I really liked this quote from Alice in Wonderland
"I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast"
Much of what I get to do now was thought IMPOSSIBLE.
So we have to BELIEVE in the IMPOSSIBLE
Aspie
Related Terms: A Chara , Allistic, Aspie, Atypical, Autistic Burnout, Autistic Inertia, Catatonia, Crip Time, Critical Disability Studies, Disability Justice Movement, Disability Rights Movement, Disability Eugenics, Feeble-Minded, Imbecile, Inspiration Porn, Masking/Camoflauging, Microaggressions, Neurominority, Ofa Ahi Latu, R-Word, Savant, Spoon Theory, Takiwatanga, Trains, Ubuntu, Ugly Laws, Upstander
Master of Ceremonies at ASAN Gala 2021
Join us for a special virtual edition of our annual celebration and fundraising event from Wednesday, November 17th through Friday, November 19th. We’re so excited to share the gala with disability community members and allies from across the country and around the world, who usually wouldn’t be able to attend in-person.
We’re happy to announce that Hari Srinivasan will be our Master of Ceremonies!
Image description: A young Indian American man in his 20s with black hair under a white baseball cap. He is wearing jeans and a long sleeved gray shirt that says California Golden Bears. He is standing next to a stone railing.
Hari Srinivasan is a minimally-speaking autistic student at UC Berkeley. He is on ASAN’s Board of Directors and a 2019 alumnus of our Autism Campus Inclusion program! At UC Berkeley, Hari is a student journalist for the Daily Californian, student instructor for a class on autism, research assistant at the UC Berkeley Psychology and Disability Labs, and was the first nonspeaking president of the student group, Autism:Spectrum At Cal. As a Haas Scholar, he is doing research on how autistic people experience awe. Hari was recently selected to serve on the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, which advises federal policy and priorities around autism. We are so grateful for Hari’s dedicated advocacy!
Hari hopes to bring attention to issues which impact disabled people in myriad areas and across the lifespan. He also wants to emphasize the urgency to include and address the issues faced by the more marginalized groups and higher support needs within the autism and larger disability community, including their mental, physical healthcare needs and comorbidities. When the voices of select groups get left out of the conversation, it negatively impacts their access to spaces, resources, funding, policy and quality of life.
We are full of autistic awe that Hari will host our annual gala and hope that you can come celebrate with us!
Gala tickets are donate-what-you-can, but no donation will be required to attend our virtual gala events. Proceeds will support our advocacy work and programs for the coming year, and allow us to continue working to empower disabled people across the country. If you’re able, please consider donating to support our work. If you are not able to donate, no worries -- we’re just happy to have you celebrating with us!
Honorees and other programming will be announced in the coming weeks.
You can RSVP to our Facebook event and invite your friends! We’re excited to celebrate together.
SPSS
Another first coming up. I will be presenting my research poster at SPSS conference next Feb.
My first Psychology conference.
Writing an abstract
My attempt at the abstract for my research project.
Past research on emotions has viewed autistics from a deficit perspective, as lacking in empathy, emotion recognition and emotional experience; even as other research posits autistic emotion experiences as more intense; and we hypothesize that this could also be true of the autistic experience of positive emotions such as awe. This first of its kind study, draws on the science of awe to examine how autistics perceive and view awe, an emotion shown to have transformative effects. This research looks at how these dimensions of emotion may diverge in autistics from what has been written from a neurotypical (non-autistic) lens. With a target sample size of n=200, the study makes use of existing self-report psychological measures of emotions, includes a new empathy measure in development by the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab, as well as written narratives, from both autistics and non-autistic controls. Data from this study will add to knowledge on: 1) autism & empathy/ emotion recognition, 2) autism & emotional experience, 3) autism & awe. Potential applications include additional tools such as “small doses of awe” that can be added to the coping and navigating toolbox for autistics.
All that's wrong with this letter from RC
All Indians MUST necessarily know Hindi,
ALL THAT’s WRONG WITH THIS LETTER on the Self-Determination Program from the CA Department of Developmental Services.
Someone at DDS decided that because I have an Indian origin last name.
1. My mother tongue must be HINDI; its not.
2. I MUST KNOW how to read the HINDI devanagari script.
3. An automatic presumption on the part on the Hindi-speaking person at DDS who came up with this plan, that every person of Indian origin knows Hindi.
Hindi is predominant in specific parts of the India only. Even if half the country knows Hindi, it marginalizes the remaining 650 million Indians in India who don't use it; the southern states being an example. There are 22 official languages in India…
I found this very insensitive; almost reflective of the autistic/disabled experience where neurotypicals/nondisabled will assume that theirs’ is the only experience that counts.
Why are they making information on disability services more inaccessible here in the CA and wasting taxpayer money in the process. How many trees died in printing out thousands of these letters, how many mailman hours were wasted in the delivery these letters.
Who got to decide this in CA; given its claim of being a more disability friendly state. This is really the last thing I expected in California.
THIS IS WRONG!!
Haas Scholar Portfolio
Received some swag today, a Haas Scholars portfolio, engraved with Haas Scholars .
Spectrum At Cal First General Meeting
Another year kicks off with Spectrum At Cal's first general meeting
The historical moment or event I i wish I had witnessed.
The event I would have like to have witnessed is Buddha, sitting under the Bodhi tree and opening his eyes after receiving enlightenment. The moment would truly have been transcendent, as he spoke to those assembled before him, giving a glimpse into the incredible insights he had gained.
Together We Can Learn Conference
I was Keynote Speaker
https://familiestogetherinc.org/2021twcl/#hari
Haas Scholars Fall Colloquium
Presented my research at the Haas Scholars Fall Colloquium today.
Overall, got very positive feedback.
Prof Dacher Keltner, Psychology: I think many of you know that Hari writes for the Daily Cal. When he was in my class, he would send me his poetry all the time. He is a brilliant writer and a brilliant thinker and I think you all felt that in that presentation. That was an incredible tour of 13 minutes and 47 seconds, from the personal to the humorous to the in-depth critique to the societal critique to the measures to the theory. I mean that, I’ve never felt, I’ve never had a presentation in my lab of that precision. The second thing is Hari’s presentation tells us why we need diversity in scholarship. His scholarship is just you know, its a devastating critique on measures and theories out there and we need these perspectives. What a rich perspective, so it was a remarkable presentation and he’s a remarkable young scholar.
#1 Public University
"UC Berkeley is the No. 1 U.S. public university, the sixth-best among publics and privates nationally and the world’s eighth-best university overall, according to the Times Higher Education‘s 2022 World University Rankings, released today.
The United Kingdom’s University of Oxford ranked first among private and public universities worldwide, followed by Harvard University, the California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Cambridge, MIT and Princeton.
After UC Berkeley, Yale University and the University of Chicago rounded out the top 10.
As for the top five U.S. public universities, after UC Berkeley in first place, UCLA ranked second and in 20th place globally, followed by the University of Michigan, (24th); the University of Washington (29th) and UC San Diego (34th).
The Times Higher Ed World University Rankings evaluated more than 1,600 universities across 99 countries and territories based on five criteria: Teaching (the learning environment), research (reputation and volume income), citations (research influence), industry income (knowledge transfer) and international outcome.
Overall, UC Berkeley ranked sixth in the world for research with a score of 96 points out of 100; 14th for teaching (85.7 points); 21st for citations, (99.1 points) 104th for industry income (84.7points) and 235th for international outlook (staff, students and research) with a score of 77.6 points."
View the complete list of Times Higher Education 2022 World University Rankings rankings.
Forbes #1 College
"It isn’t enough to ask which schools give the best return on investment. It’s also important to evaluate what kind of students they educate and whether they make themselves accessible to those who can’t afford high sticker prices."
Sixth Semester teaching the Autism DeCal
50 and waitlisted!!
Woo hoo. Not only have 50 students enrolled but the class is waitlisted as well.
Got Approval for 50 students this time.
The paperwork for the course gets done during the previous semester as the course syllabus has to be approved by Academic Senate COCI (Courses of Instruction) along with faculty support from the sponsoring faculty.
This time, we got approval for 50 students, so super thrilled. This will be the largest class size yet. Over the years we have grown from 17 to now 50!!
Atypical
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Atypical in the context of autism refers to behaviors, traits, or abilities that are not typical or common in non-autistics. Atypical behaviors can include things like repetitive movements, difficulty with social communication or interaction, sensory sensitivities, and intense interests or focus on specific topics.
The term "atypical" is used to describe these behaviors because they deviate from what is considered typical or expected in NTs.
However, it is important to note that the term "atypical" should not be used in a negative or stigmatizing way, as autistics have unique strengths and abilities that may not be considered typical but are still valuable and important.
Related Terms: A Chara , Allistic, Aspie, Atypical, Autistic Burnout, Autistic Inertia, Catatonia, Crip Time, Critical Disability Studies, Disability Justice Movement, Disability Rights Movement, Disability Eugenics, Feeble-Minded, Imbecile, Inspiration Porn, Masking/Camoflauging, Microaggressions, Neurominority, Ofa Ahi Latu, R-Word, Savant, Spoon Theory, Takiwatanga, Trains, Ubuntu, Ugly Laws, Upstander
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