Autism Awareness Month

[3113]

I wasn't even aware it was my month http://www.runemasterstudios.com/graemlins/images/smilielol.gif

That autistic humor there.

Yo, yo! VM and others, it's our month! That means everyone has to be aware of us. Wait till I tell my husband

To add to the awareness, I present the official, Autism puzzle piece. Symbol of our people.

http://www.artzcars.com/img/a2.jpg

I've yet to figure out if this means we're a puzzle or we've got a piece missing. Likely both....

 

[vrosej10]

My son is high functioning autistic. He has a very distinctive sense of humour too.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I wasn't even aware it was my month http://www.runemasterstudios.com/graemlins/images/smilielol.gif

That autistic humor there.

Yo, yo! VM and others, it's our month! That means everyone has to be aware of us. Wait till I tell my husband

To add to the awareness, I present the official, Autism puzzle piece. Symbol of our people.

http://www.artzcars.com/img/a2.jpg

I've yet to figure out if this means we're a puzzle or we've got a piece missing. Likely both....

I think it's so you'll have something to count over and over.

I mean, have you noticed that there are nine each of the red, yellow and dark and light blue pieces? But if you include the teensy corner bits that show here and there, there are ten... except for the light blue which has no teensy bit in a corner anywhere...

 

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[3113]

I think it's so you'll have something to count over and over.

I mean, have you noticed that there are nine each of the red, yellow and dark and light blue pieces? But if you include the teensy corner bits that show here and there, there are ten... except for the light blue which has no teensy bit in a corner anywhere...

Evil Stella! You will not get me obsessing over the puzzle piece! More likely its because if you give us a puzzle we'll spend hours putting it together and obsess over finding the damn missing piece. Here's a different, more common version:

http://www.iloveachildwithautism.com/images/lp04Lapelpin.jpg

As the phase that goes with said piece is "love a child with autism" it becomes clear that the puzzle piece is suppose to be a child (head, arms, legs) who is a puzzle...or not part of the puzzle...missing from the puzzle...walked away from the puzzle because it belongs to a different puzzle...or it's a bunch of kids who fit together, but, puzzling enough are alone...darn it...now I'm obsessing.....

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Obsessing? Who's obsessing? Is it you? Stella? Them? Someone else? How many are obsessing? Let's count . . .

 

[3113]

It's our day, it's our special day!!!!

Special month! We get all of April Alas, we have to share the whole month with Jazz Appreciation Month and National Poetry & Poetry writing Month (can't we combine the Jazz with the Poetry and just have National Beatnik Month?).

 

[Xelebes]

Evil Stella! You will not get me obsessing over the puzzle piece! More likely its because if you give us a puzzle we'll spend hours putting it together and obsess over finding the damn missing piece. Here's a different, more common version:

http://www.iloveachildwithautism.com/images/lp04Lapelpin.jpg

As the phase that goes with said piece is "love a child with autism" it becomes clear that the puzzle piece is suppose to be a child (head, arms, legs) who is a puzzle...or not part of the puzzle...missing from the puzzle...walked away from the puzzle because it belongs to a different puzzle...or it's a bunch of kids who fit together, but, puzzling enough are alone...darn it...now I'm obsessing.....

That puzzle piece doesn't make sense. Note how the blue piece in the left corner? How can it be the light blue piece and red piece at the same time. That puzzle piece doesn't make any sense. I mean, can you imagine trying to put that puzzle together and then have that piece laughing at you because it makes you think you have a light-blue puzzle piece to put together and there you have that red bluff. Or maybe it is the other way around. . .

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Special month! We get all of April Alas, we have to share the whole month with Jazz Appreciation Month and National Poetry & Poetry writing Month (can't we combine the Jazz with the Poetry and just have National Beatnik Month?).

National Beatnik Month? Count me in!!




http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/beatnikgurl.jpg

 

[3113]

That puzzle piece doesn't make sense. Note how the blue piece in the left corner? How can it be the light blue piece and red piece at the same time. That puzzle piece doesn't make any sense. I mean, can you imagine trying to put that puzzle together and then have that piece laughing at you because it makes you think you have a light-blue puzzle piece to put together and there you have that red bluff. Or maybe it is the other way around. . .

We're going to spend the rest of our month talking about the puzzle piece, aren't we?

*sigh* No wonder they have to make people aware of us with an awareness month.

 

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[stephen55]

I am not autistic. Let me count the ways in which I am not autistic.
...wait a minute...

No matter how many times I repeat that I'm not autistic...
...wait a minute...

I used to get so upset at accusations that I'm autistic that I would get up on my tippy-toes and...
...wait a minute...

Go ahead and just try to look me in the eye while you accuse me of autism.
...wait a minute...

Don't try and tell me I'm autistic while I'm watching my nine hundred and thirty-second rerun of Star Trek!
...wait a minute...

I'm not autistic. I just act that way.

 

[3113]

I'm not autistic. I just act that way.

Yet another reason we need a whole month of awareness. Here, Stephen, have a puzzle piece....

http://www.tattooswithapurpose.com/images/144_tat_autism_blue.jpg

 

[Dual_Triode]

I've yet to figure out if this means we're a puzzle or we've got a piece missing. Likely both....

As a father of an aspie daughter, I concur. I wouldn't change her, though. She's a treat just the way God made her.

 

[vrosej10]

It's our day, it's our special day!!!!

It's small wonder daughter wants to be a veterinarian (and she has the brains, the grades and the ACT scores to make it happen). She quite often relates much better to animals than to people.

I know. Kidlet's marks are of that order too. Animals don't want the hundreds of confusing and conflicted things that humans want from other humans. My kidlet has problems with animals too because he can't understand their body language either and they freak him out. We got some mice and that has help enormously. He is learning how they roll and is getting less scared of other animals as a result.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Growing up, I found that I could successfully relate to kids much younger than I was or adults. Others my own age? Fuggedaboudit!

 

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[voluptuary_manque]

Both our kids are Asperger's/ADHD/Gifted - or as the school calls it - OHI (other health impaired). Heh.

Oh, the joys. Bully magnets, they self-induce stress about so many different things. Anyway -

We are cat people and luckily the kids did inherit some cat tells. We don't know a great deal about any other sort of animal but we recently took care of a pet Chinchilla for a couple of weeks. I was very surprised at the intelligence of the furry little thing. Expressive, so very soft (great for tactile kids) generally quiet (though it can emit a soft bark) and nocturnal. Very busy at night. And it looks positively cute while munching on a piece of shredded wheat.

That might be an idea if you want to expand into other smaller critters. To tell the truth, mice creep me out.



Yep. And older kids, too. Kids my own age? Not so much.

Of course these days I still prefer older men.

 

[SlickTony]

As a father of an aspie daughter, I concur. I wouldn't change her, though. She's a treat just the way God made her.

It's a much, much better age for Aspie kids to live in than it was when I was coming up.