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I thought it was going to be a cool site with tips on how to help your kids overcome stuff that freaks them out, sort of like the Mind Hacks site. But no, it seems like this person wants to figure out how to rewire his/her kid’s brain. I guess a higher-tech version of what they did to disruptive kids in the first part of the last century.
W.T.F
I would NEVER do that to my girl. EVER EVER EVER!!!
gross. I am going to co-opt that term (hacking autism). And put in my hacks, how we helped our daughter build bridges so she remains who she is, but is able to participate in any activity she chooses.
I need to send this one to a friend at work
I have thought about this alot recently. I have a couple of friends at work who are just learning about autism, because their kids are just being diagnosed as someplace on the spectrum. Their kids are young, so I tell them how lucky they are to be able to learn how to help their kids so early.
But they are scared. I have told them BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU READ ON THE INTERNET. I tell them about Brianna, how she is doing so well, even though sometimes she works very hard to do well. I tell them how I don’t think there is something wrong with Bri, she’s just got a different way of thinking that is weird to the rest of us. But that is a good thing, that means she has a leg up on everyone because she’s different.
I had never thought that one of the reasons autism is now seen as this evil monster waiting to steal your children is that autism research is now big business. This guy (who is autistic) thinks that if the autism research community admits that there is a huge group of functioning autistic folks out there, it will unravel their empire.
I guess that could be true, but I think the problem is probably more systemic than that. The class I took last semester was a basic educational psycology class, you know all about memory and how our brains store and retrieve information. It was neat, because I learned the technical terms that were always on Brianna’s testing paperwork. The class taught how our brains work, and what’s the best way to design instruction based on that. I think I understood the class better because I was working backwards alot of the time - I know how Bri thinks, and it won’t work with the models for instruction we have. If I brought it up in class, it would take a few go ’rounds before my fellow students would see my point.
If this is our teachers and researchers are being taught to deliver and design instruction without understanding that we have a population that thinks differently, we’ll always have the problem of not acknowledging the autistics in the crowd. We need to educate the educators and researchers, then the problem of ignoring high-functioning autistic folks will solve itself.
Martha Washington Turner Standridge Woodall and Mr. Woodall
Originally uploaded by gminks
I am going to start moving all the old pictures I have to my flickr account.
I’m linking them to this post, maybe I need to just make a new page.
Ok, to go with the pictures, here’s stuff I know:
Susie Wilson Standridge (Bigmama) Born 1920
Daughter of:
Jolly Robertson Standridge Born August 1896 in GA
Son of:
Andrew Ramsey Robert Lee Standridge Born June 5, 1870 in Oconee CO SC
Son of:
???? Blackwell or Woodall ??????
Martha Washington Turner born February 22, 1845
Emma Sparks Born December 13, 1877
They were married on April 3, 1893
Annie Lee Walraven Born April 1, 1896
Daughter of:
John W. Walraven born December 12, 1872, Oak Grove, Fulton CO GA
Son of:
Mitchell Walraven born 1839, Gordon CO, GA
Son of: (this needs to be verified)
Jonathan Walraven born 1807
Milly Wilson born 1829
Mary Catherine Starnes born 1836, SC
Lillian Pitts Born December 13, 187o (this is the name on the 1900 census, I think people called her Linnie)
Daughter of:
???
Mary J. Pitts, born 1832
They were married May 16, 1895
They were married in May 1918 in Milton County GA
