Mom serves food to two Aspie boys. She follows up by serving them drinks. As she puts the cups on the table, she pauses and looks like, are you forgetting something?
One boy says, "Oh...thank you."
The other boy keeps eating.
Mom says, "You're Wel-come!" exaggerating the term.
Aspie boy looks up and says, "Oh...you're welcome," and keeps eating.
Mom is trying to get her son to stop eating an all carbs breakfast and add more protein to his diet. Mom says, "You can have 3 waffles and 2 eggs."
Boy says, "But I have to have 4 waffles."
"No...you're adding 2 eggs to take the place of that 4th waffle."
"But if I have only 3 waffles I can't have syrup. I have to have 4 waffles to have syrup."
Mom says, "You can have 1 waffle and still have syrup. I do it all the time."
"No...I have to have 4," says the boy.
Mom thinks but does not say, well you don't need the syrup anyway. So if that's what you think...fine with me.
Editorial Note: The following was written late one night after a couple of glasses of wine. My keyboard was fast and loose as was my mind.
Things I Want to Know
Why does the sign at Walgreens say "Fresh Apple Pies?" -How is that even possible at Walgreens? Are they baking pies in the pharmacy?
Why do we actually celebrate people getting married like it's the best thing ever? -Those of us who are married know damn well exactly what they're getting themselves into?
Whose idea was the institution of marriage...really?
Why did I almost choke when the pastor said, "Love, honor and...obey?" Obey?? I don't think so! Till death do us part? Jesus!! Really???
Whose idea is it that husbands and wives have to sleep in the same bed every night? I had my own room for my entire life! Now I have to share? When women go through peri-menopuase that means that men-are-on-pause! You should not have to listen to them snore when you're trying to sleep. (Love you honey...if you're reading this. Really.)
Why not let gay people get married? They should have the right to be just as miserable as the rest of us? Who are we to judge?
Whose great idea was it to have children anyway?
Why do people get married more than once? You've got to be freakin' kidding me! Oh this time it's going to be so much better. It's better to keep him as your boyfriend honey!
Do we all go brain dead when we get pregnant more than once? -Have we completely forgotten the misery the first child put us through?
If children were born as teenagers -would the world population just completely drop? Who would knowingly have more than one teenager?
Why is it that our children have so much more than we could have ever dreamed of as kids...yet they're constantly telling us they're bored?
My own children have told me that they are never having kids. "Kids are too expensive. They take up all of your money!" Why is it that I didn't think that way before I had them?
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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