Anemone's Research Emporium

Who am I?

I am gifted, female, and autistic. I have been on welfare as an adult for a long time, and the official reason is autism, but I suspect that being as gifted as I am and as female as I am is a bigger handicap than autism, as much as autism is a handicap for me.

As a result of the above, I have gotten rather irate at the lack of solid information out there, and started doing my own reading and thinking a while back. Much of what is on this website is a result of that. What I'm finding is that even when there is good information on what's what, it often doesn't make it into popular culture. And what is in popular culture is often wrong. The area I was most fascinated by as a child was mythology, and so one of my goals is to figure out how to update the modern mythos so that it is more accurate and inclusive for freaks like me. So people like me don't have to go through what I've gone through any more.

Some technical details

My current legal name (since 1993): Anemone Cerridwen
Born: Sarah Anne Robertson, December 25, 1964

I was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. I have also lived in Edmonton, Calgary, and Pembroke, Ontario, worked in northern Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in summer jobs, travelled almost the entire TransCanada highway at least once in each direction, and am currently living in Vancouver.

Education

• B.Sc. (geology) 1987, University of Ottawa
• M.Sc. (geology) 1989, University of Alberta
  -thesis on Pleistocene Mollusca (ice age clams) of Grand Cayman Island
• B.Sc. (psychology) 1992, University of Calgary
  
• also: BC Witchcamp 1990 (that counts, doesn't it?)

I paid off my student loans at the age of 30 and completed my midlife crisis at the age of 35, but am still working on the more traditional milestones (you know: career, marriage, kids).

Publications

Cerridwen, A., & Simonton, D. K. (in press). Sex doesn't sell - nor impress: Content, box office, critics, and awards in mainstream cinema. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Cerridwen, S. A., & Jones, B., 1991. Distribution of bivalves and gastropods in the Pleistocene Ironshore Formation, Grand Cayman, British West Indies. Caribbean Journal of Science 27:97-116.