tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-120932374686252436.post6088185272943936423..comments2024-01-24T18:56:16.119+00:00Comments on Autism and Classical Myth: “Every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion, and encounter, every aspect of existence” - On World Autism Awareness Day 2020 (Hope-bearer 3)Susan Deacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143187778991035048noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-120932374686252436.post-21342974195148099632020-04-06T14:13:12.872+01:002020-04-06T14:13:12.872+01:00Reading the posts in reverse chronological order a...Reading the posts in reverse chronological order and responding to them that way.<br /><br />The Suskind points about expectations and experience and their counterpoints run to Sinclair; Rowe; Rubin; Shore.<br /><br />Rowe - the girl with the curly hair!<br /><br />That Hampshire Teachers is a good resource.<br /><br />Have read bits of Neurotribes and The Autistic Brain.<br /><br />One visual thinking thing I discovered was searching with emoji - if I type in an Apple Colour Emoji of an ice-skating blade I can find in Wikipedia an ice rink.<br /><br />"You've met one person" ... if it were to Shore I might have known that if it were in the last quarter of 2001 when I was first exposed to Beyond the Wall. And now that quote is so much a common place.<br /><br />Again that balance of expectations and support.<br /><br />Marc Segar [1973-1997] had something to say about that in his BATTLES OF THE AUTISTIC THINKER. [Enabling autistic people to pick up what others are able to do instinctively] and the COPING SURVIVAL GUIDE which was put onto Wikibooks by Sebastian Dern [it didn't have a FLOSS licence sad to say].<br /><br />Dani's words are poewrful.<br /><br />And so is your word "divested". In the activist world divesting too often comes with boycotting and sanctioning [and sanctioning has two separate meanings - one that allows/enables and one that bars].<br /><br />Thinking of how Samson got his hair cut off.<br /><br />And Hercules has long hair too.Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.com