World Autism Awareness Day
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Got an email about it being world autism awareness day today (2nd April).
I know that there are a few people with Aspergers Syndrome (on the ASD Spectrum) here, so I thought that I'd say 'Hi' and let you know that people are trying to understand you better instead of writing you off.There was a link in the email with some tips on understanding ASD. For those that are interested, here is the link: http://suelarkey.com.au/media/Key_Tips_for_Understanding_ASD_-_E-Book.pdf
After a quick poke around some Google results,
Talking Tom, the fifth most-downloaded mobile app of all time, will have a blue T-shirt you can download in the app.
http://mashable.com/2012/04/02/world-autism-awareness-day/
https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/world-autism-awareness-day
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I've got an older sister with severe autism and epilepsy, and back home, in that culture having anyone mentally handicapped at all is taboo as hell so people often abandon children in dangerous, state run homes where they are neglected and abused. My sister is in a home, but it is a private one, and I spend a hell of a lot of money on it and they treat her well. My second-to-youngest sister visits her often, usually twice a week. Unfortunately even the well treated people there from wealthy families tend to almost never be visited by anyone.
So I think awareness is important because, at least in South Eastern Europe, the taboo has to end because many loved ones are being mistreated and it's simply ignored by the population at large. People are even advised to simply forget they have this infirm and/or disabled relative and just move on. It's disgusting. My own family even did that with my sister until I was able to do something about in my early 20s -- she now has her own room, with her own personal things in it, where as before she had a large adult crib in a huge room.
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Awareness is so important. So many people just suffer instead of learning more and doing something about it. As a mom of an Aspie and the Boss of a few it keeps me on my toes.
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For my son - who does quite well.
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I don't know if you all have read this or watched the video, but it's pretty amazing. I wish I could do something like that on my end of the spectrum.
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We are really lucky as my son loves computers (well hardware mostly). But as you can see around here he is semi active and is running our lab setup. Right now it's FreeNas (see post for help).
He is so much farther than the Dr's thought he would ever get. Love proving them wrong.
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Getting a tattoo with the autism jigsaw in it in honor of my brother...what's ironic is I'm also autistic, and I do mean that in what ironic means...we're just at different ends of the spectrum.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
Getting a tattoo with the autism jigsaw in it in honor of my brother...what's ironic is I'm also autistic, and I do mean that in what ironic means...we're just at different ends of the spectrum.
No AJ, you don't. And likely if you really were autistic it would bother you how completely opposite of what ironic means that is. There are few things less ironic than the fact that two brothers are autistic. In now way, whatsoever, did one of your conditions inadvertently lead to the other. You know from countless examples how absolutely non-ironic this is.
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You can't even call it coincidental. It's like saying "I'm blonde and my brother is blonde. What a coincidence!" It's not called a coincidence when it is likely or expected.
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@scottalanmiller said:
You can't even call it coincidental. It's like saying "I'm blonde and my brother is blonde. What a coincidence!" It's not called a coincidence when it is likely or expected.
You lack the context that is in my head. For almost my whole life I always thought of my brother and I as very different, because he was autistic and I wasn't. With that as the context, and how my family and I always thought, it is ironic.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
Getting a tattoo with the autism jigsaw in it in honor of my brother...what's ironic is I'm also autistic, and I do mean that in what ironic means...we're just at different ends of the spectrum.
No AJ, you don't.
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That's better, but still not ironic. Nothing about one situation caused the other. It's far more surprising.
But trust me, as nearly everyone has needed to do as it is flag word for people who can't use vocabulary correctly, completely remove all use of the word ironic. The rule is, people who know how to use it know not to use it because they know that everyone else doesn't know how to use it.
The best case use of ironic still isn't good. And you're not in that use case. There's no need to ever use it, it truly is best for you to avoid it completely. Treat it as a swear word you would never say in public.
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@thanksajdotcom do you have AD.D. to?
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@BMarie said:
@thanksajdotcom do you have AD.D. to?
I do, and Modafinil helps; I take a lot of it and have for years.
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@tonyshowoff said:
@BMarie said:
@thanksajdotcom do you have AD.D. to?
I do, and Modafinil helps; I take a lot of it and have for years.
I'm not on anything. I was on Ritalin for year's. From the age of 9 till high school. Not been on anything since. Sometimes I wished I had something.
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@BMarie What I like about Modafinil is that it is not an amphetamine so you don't get the same resistance to it after taking it for years. Admittedly, I use adderall on the weekends or to speed things up, but intentionally not very often.
You can get Modafinil at http://modafinilcat.com/ (Modalert or Wakalert) - I know the person who actually runs it and I order tons from there, way cheaper than other places, and it takes about 1-2 weeks to get. This is not a paid endorsement.
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@PSX_Defector said:
@BMarie said:
Sometimes I wished I had something.
I am your street pharmaceutical man.
@tonyshowoff said:
@BMarie What I like about Modafinil is that it is not an amphetamine so you don't get the same resistance to it after taking it for years. Admittedly, I use adderall on the weekends or to speed things up, but intentionally not very often.
You can get Modafinil at http://modafinilcat.com/ - I know the person who actually runs it and I order tons from there, way cheaper than other places, and it takes about 1-2 weeks to get. This is not a paid endorsement.
Very funny @PSX_Defector.....
@Tonyshowoff I just seem to do better now without the meds, I'm not as "out of it" I'm more creative when I'm not on them. But I've also not been on them in almost 20 years to.
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@BMarie said:
@Tonyshowoff I just seem to do better now without the meds, I'm not as "out of it" I'm more creative when I'm not on them. But I've also not been on them in almost 20 years to.
I didn't realise how severe my AD(H)D was until I started taking Modafinil (it didn't make me feel any different, unlike an amphetamine like adderrall) and then stopped, I then started to realise I got a whole lot less done. That's what's so weird about it, you don't even know it's working until you stop taking it.
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@tonyshowoff said:
Admittedly, I use adderall on the weekends or to speed things up, but intentionally not very often.
There but for the curse of self discipline, go I
