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Feeling Snarfly after a Bad Day
I had a stressful morning at work Friday. It had nothing to do with the students. I was stressed for unrelated reasons. However, because things have been going so well, I was able to recognize on the way to work that I was stressed. My experience last year, however, made anxious about how the day would go if I was less able to control myself in the ( Read more... ) -
teaching emotional understanding
I teach a daily social skills group to teenagers with severe communication challenges. I am autistic myself. I find this ironic at times. However, what I find most striking is the unwillingness of my students, on and off the spectrum, to identify negative emotions. I have come to believe it is the way that we teach this skill that is flawed, not ( Read more... ) -
Multiple Perspectives
I am autistic: I have difficulty recognizing other's perspectives. It is hard for me to understand why they don't see things the same way I do; after all, it's obvious to me. When I stop and reflect, however, I realize that I, myself, have used multiple perspectives over my lifetime to understand myself and the world around me. (a description of ( Read more... ) -
To "I Wish I Didn't have Aspergers" from gallian #AutismPositivity2012
I am not here to tell you that it never sucks to have Aspergers. Sometimes it does. I know, I've been bulled most of my life because of it. I won't say I wouldn't prefer to be able to communicate the same way as my coworkers, because if I could it would certainly make my working life a whole lot easier. However, Aspergers is an intrinsic part of ( Read more... ) -
Hurricaine Pictures
I love watching storm coverage. Blame my mother, she's a weather channel junkie.
My nominee for best picture from the storm:
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Abuse
Abuse of people with disabilities is not something that happens somewhere else to somebody else. It is real, and it happens here.
From The Boston Globe. Note the relatives' justifications for her actions:
But Paquette’s father, Alfred Paquette, who attended her arraignment, defended her, telling reporters afterward that she was overwhelmed with ( Read more... ) -
That Pediactrics article on Growth Attenuation
I said, after nightengalesknd sent me the full-text article of Dr. Diekema's latest paper on Growth-Attenuation therapy that it was even worse than I'd originally thought. However, the end of the school year and graduate school swallowed me whole and I didn't have a chance to write up an explanation of why. Someone else beat me to it. Everyone needs to read ( Read more... ) -
Blink for Disability Rights
Please help my people
The poor and downtrod
I thought we all were
The children of God
God help the outcasts
Children of God
My guess is that the kind of widespread intervention that is being advocated in the actual paper-restricted to “nonambulatory children with profound cognitive disabilities”, but still covering many thousands of children in ( Read more... ) -
Final Thoughts on Baby Kaylee and DCD
Stephen Drake at Not Dead Yet has an update on Baby Kaylee. She is now considered stable, and is going home. It appears her parents are better educated as to the reality of her condition than they were before the story broke. Would that have happened without the media attention? Or would she have become another Annie Farlow?
Dick Sosbey has a ( Read more... )