Esther Ghey, mother of murdered child, Brianna, is calling for kindness to be more evident in children and mindfulness to be taught in schools and who doesn’t want children to be kind? The snag comes when one is dealing with children being raised by neglectful, cruel and abusive care givers. Then, their brains which are […]
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Why worry? Endless worrying is a major feature of Asperger’s Syndrome and huge amounts of anxiety surround everything from starting school to anticipating a party to meeting a new support worker and everything and anything in between and sudden changes in routine provoke high levels of anxiety. I can’t emphasise enough the fact that all
Acoustic Enjoyment Words: I found out the name for this phenomenon from my friend K and it is a common feature of Asperger’s. I remember being in primary school when my teacher asked me if I had a favourite word. She asked us all this question but never told us why. Whether she was looking
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WHY ARE BLIND PEOPLE SELFISH? This is a provocative title for an essay that I was asked to write as a result of a conversation I had with a professional, to the effect that blindness has psychological as well as physical consequences. He agreed with this and wanted further information so he could more easily
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Absolutely not. I’ve heard this saying lots of times: “promises are pie crusts, made to be broken”. I’m not taking this literally, thinking a promise is made out of pastry. Instead I know this means people take promises lightly and make them wantonly. Trust is built on reliability not on someone making fatuous pie crust
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The joke goes: “How do you get down from an elephant’s back?” The answer is that you don’t because you get down from a duck’s back. When the savvy blind children told me that when I was one of them out in the playground where I was not one of them, my answer to the
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Years ago there was this lovely song by Long Dancer, called: “If it was so simple”. No smart people with Asperger’s doesn’t ask themselves why they perseverate, though they may not know the name for it but may ask instead: “Why can’t I forget an upsetting comment quickly and brush it off like a fly
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Sadly not everyone who is blind is eligible for a guide dog or suitable to own one. The reasons for this are many and varied. As mentioned before, a poor sense of direction is one reason why a blind person may not be suitable to own a dog. If you cannot tell where you are
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Extreme Verbosity. Very wearing so why don’t you stop doing it? This is one of the most unfortunate Asperger’s traits but it’s a fact that I can talk for Britain, the world and the universe. I used to put it down to blindness since words are all I have but not to take your heart
This is a comment from a support worker who went to my friend, K and she told me about this. I can see what was meant by this but don’t necessarily think this is the case. We know now that vaccinations are not the cause of autism so what is? For one thing Asperger’s Syndrome
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