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These are the rules..
1. Winners grab the image above and put it in your blog.
2.Link back to the person who gave you it.
3.Tell 10 things about yourself
4.Award 15 recently discovered bloggers.
5.Contact the bloggers you have awarded to let them know they have won.
10 things about me.
1. My first self-declared nickname was Go-Go Stage. Apparently when I was 4 years-old, I aspired to be a go-go dancer. I have no idea why.
2. I check my blog stats, Facebook and Twitter way too many times per day. I haven't finished a good book since I started this awful habit.
3. Bailey's Irish Cream is my coffee cream of choice (ssh! Don't tell anyone!) I try to limit it to weekends. Keyword (TRY).
4. I love my children but I can't wait for them to get out of my house!
5. I like to paint, especially with oil -mostly abstract, although my art teacher is making me learn to draw (damn her).
6. I love, love, love babies. Their pure happiness just makes me feel good.
7. I steal my son's Ipod and rock out in the car and at the gym to Linkin Park and Green Day. This is totally age inappropriate, but it gets my ass moving.
8. When I was in preschool -I was punished for spanking the other children. Apparently, I was the Mom. Funny, I seldom spanked my own.(I only occasionally knock them into next week. This is a right of passage for an African American mother.)
9. In high school my English teacher called me Ms. Nightnengale -because I was always fluttering about trying to help others instead of doing my own work. I have obviously passed this trait on to my youngest son. He has the same problem at school -just can't mind his own business.
10. There is a local restaurant where all of the waitresses and bartenders know me by name, favorite cocktail, and appetizer. I go there way too often...ALONE!
Here are my nominations for the award. I didn't follow the rules to the letter, cause that's just how I roll. Really, I fell last night while out walking my dog and my arms are sore. I got tired of pointing and clicking to put the links together. I hope you will stop by and pay these folks a visit.
Mama's Turn Now
Grace
Life on the Spectrum: The Connor Chronicles
Life in the House that Aspergers Built
The Adventures of JAMC
Life With Aspergers
Adventures in Aspergers
Spectrum my Mummy
Adopting Special Needs
Naked Reflections
Organic Green Doctor
Thank you so much for reading and supporting this blog. According to my husband, you all mean more to me than he does. :-D
Show me some love!
10 things about me.
1. My first self-declared nickname was Go-Go Stage. Apparently when I was 4 years-old, I aspired to be a go-go dancer. I have no idea why.
2. I check my blog stats, Facebook and Twitter way too many times per day. I haven't finished a good book since I started this awful habit.
3. Bailey's Irish Cream is my coffee cream of choice (ssh! Don't tell anyone!) I try to limit it to weekends. Keyword (TRY).
4. I love my children but I can't wait for them to get out of my house!
5. I like to paint, especially with oil -mostly abstract, although my art teacher is making me learn to draw (damn her).
6. I love, love, love babies. Their pure happiness just makes me feel good.
7. I steal my son's Ipod and rock out in the car and at the gym to Linkin Park and Green Day. This is totally age inappropriate, but it gets my ass moving.
8. When I was in preschool -I was punished for spanking the other children. Apparently, I was the Mom. Funny, I seldom spanked my own.(I only occasionally knock them into next week. This is a right of passage for an African American mother.)
9. In high school my English teacher called me Ms. Nightnengale -because I was always fluttering about trying to help others instead of doing my own work. I have obviously passed this trait on to my youngest son. He has the same problem at school -just can't mind his own business.
10. There is a local restaurant where all of the waitresses and bartenders know me by name, favorite cocktail, and appetizer. I go there way too often...ALONE!
Here are my nominations for the award. I didn't follow the rules to the letter, cause that's just how I roll. Really, I fell last night while out walking my dog and my arms are sore. I got tired of pointing and clicking to put the links together. I hope you will stop by and pay these folks a visit.
Mama's Turn Now
Grace
Life on the Spectrum: The Connor Chronicles
Life in the House that Aspergers Built
The Adventures of JAMC
Life With Aspergers
Adventures in Aspergers
Spectrum my Mummy
Adopting Special Needs
Naked Reflections
Organic Green Doctor
Thank you so much for reading and supporting this blog. According to my husband, you all mean more to me than he does. :-D
Show me some love!
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Adelaide Dupont · 285 weeks ago
And for those of us who knew and appreciated these points in high school to a greater or lesser extent - always good to have a refresher and feel them through the current and future generations who we survived to be able to see.
I especially appreciated points 5, 7 and 10.
And young women not settling or settling down yet is a good thing.
"It's never too late to live our dreams" - but it may be too early for some of them!
And 8 of course.
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Maira L. Coral · 216 weeks ago
I was looking for information for my Multi-Genre Disability Research Project from my Early Childhood Special Education class on the web, when suddenly I came across your blog. I started reading this out of curiosity and I want to tell you that as you said yourself, you will not be Amanda Gorman, but you managed to make me shed some tears, perhaps because I felt totally identified with your words, especially in the part that you speak of your son. My son also has Asperger's syndrome, he is 19 years old and he is in the second semester of College. Also like yours, he takes classes from home, likewise my eldest daughter is also taking college classes from her room. At the same time, that I work as a preschool teacher from my kitchen through a computer, my husband sleeps in the room during the day because he works at night. Also in the afternoons I myself take virtual school classes. I am a 51-year-old Latin woman who began to learn the English language as adult, so maybe you find some deficiencies in my writing, however, I was very moved by how proud you express yourself about your son. Referent your mother, I liked the humorous tone that you give when your talk about her, so I did not want to miss this opportunity and stopped my assignments for a moment to let you know that your words do make a difference, since they reach the heart of at least those who have opportunity to read you. I want confess you that is the most long I have written to someone I don't know, because your words inspired me, thank you...
Gavin Bollard · 209 weeks ago
Thanks for this post. I've been very distracted of late and so this was how I found out about our friend Kate. Kate's struggles were very real but they were so constant and so wide-ranging that it was difficult for people around her to address them. I think it's going to take a while longer for me to process all this.
I learned so much from Kate because she was always quick to point out the many injustices in the world. In her glory days, she was very much a crusader and she cared for everyone. Over the years, as her situation took its toll, I came to realise that it was the fact that she couldn't be put in a single specific category, that made the system fail her. She needed help that they weren't set up to provide.
She needed more care and she needed to be less alone. I'm so sorry that this has happened.
For a long while we were corresponding almost every day but a couple of months ago, I realised that she had become so stressed that nearly every interaction I had with her was starting to trigger her. I backed away to give her a bit more space. She only had a little time that she could stand to be online and there were too many things that she wanted to do in that time. I thought that by taking a step back, she could reach out to more people who might be geographically closer and able to assist.
Kate was a beautiful soul and she will be sorely missed by all of us.
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Spoil your cat · 122 weeks ago
Many of these living arrangement aren't good, and many of the people who run those places really don't have the residents' best interest at heart. Those places are like old age homes and foster homes, where you sometimes hear horror stories. They're hard to trust. But then there are good ones, of course.
The best thing for an autistic adult is either to go on living at home or working and renting an apartment and living independently, but that isn't always an option.
Duncan · 112 weeks ago