Posted on 07/04/2024 11:38:48 AM PDT by Morgana
The videos often take a long time to load from the DailyMail. I don’t know; but I guess it’s traveling from california to UK and back to your computer. Sometimes I wait three or four full minutes to for DM vids to load.
It was a slap but not a whack.
Ok, thanks for the reply. I can sometimes get the videos to load, and other times, the page crashes and starts over. There are always so many ads. Sometimes I just don’t have the patience to wait and try again only to have to wait more.
Define autism, everything and everyone is on a spectrum, it pays the bills for a LOT of people on welfare.
I hear you. It’s an incredibly trashy site, but there are usually nuggests to be found. It’s like my favorite discount jumble store.
He looked about retarded, and the guy tapped him gently really. More a correction than a smack. He shouldn’t have done this, it will mean real jail time.
Yes, you said it absolutely right 😀👏🏻
I am one of them, i.e. high-functioning autistics (not geniuses, unfortunately 😉), and I can vindicate everything you’ve been saying.
Of autistics, I have just recently read a statistic which said that about 45% of us are above average intelligence ( up to supragenius) level, no more than about 25% have average intelligence, and around 30 % below average, all the way to imbecility, i.e. unratable intelligence.
Yes, and I never would have dared to touch anyone‘s property. This didn’t, unfortunately , keep me from hated and despised by practically everyone as a child (autism being unheard of in those days).
Still, I loved cars, and whenever I saw an exciting car parked anywhere, I would go over and have a look. Once, a friendly car owner would even speak to me and ask if I liked his car. I nodded enthusiastically, and told him all the technical details, although I was only ten at the time (curiously, it was also an S-class then, with no badge on the trunklid. But I was able to recognize the 6.9 liter version by the slight peculiarities on the dashboard, which no other S-class had, i.e. the switch for the hydropneumatic system, the burr walnut veneers and the speedo which went to 260 i stead of 240 km/h).
He glanced at me with admiration, and I just beamed.😀
Sorry, I meant „from being hated“ obviously 🫢
You sound like my son with computers. He knows the specifications of each component, what it does, and how it impacts performance.
When he was 12, I took him the the Geek Squad for a keyboard repair on his laptop.
He started talking to the man behind the counter. Finally, the gentleman asked me my son’s age. When I told him, he was surprised. “He’s doing things I didn’t learn until college.”
Thankfully, there are groups now for kids on the spectrum. They are not alone, struggling in a hostile world. The bullying and ostracizing hasn’t gone away, but it’s no surprise that all of my son’s current friends are on the spectrum, too.
Oh, that was fascinating to read, Ma‘am 😀
And it is really reassuring to read that nowadays a lot is done to ease the lot of children who are on the autism spectrum. Adults, sometimes, would be grateful for a helping hand now and then, too.
Life is often so much more difficult for autistics - even for the high- functioning sort. Well, even healthy people often struggle with the things life throws at them😔
And yes, quite a few of us have a great hand with computers, just like your son does (unfortunately, I don’t 🙂) or with mathematics or a field of technology.
As a computer expert, I hope sincerely that he will always be able to make a good living, together with happiness, since most of us really gain fulfillment doing what we so dearly love, what is our special interest.
In my case, my interests were cars, steam trains, history, linguistics, music and geography, among other things, in which I have been interested since I could read.
I wish your son all the best for the future, so he might always be able to lead a happy and fulfilling life 🙂
And, of course, my heartfelt best wishes are also going out to you and your other dear ones (I‘ve been reading about the trials and tribulations you had to go through. I’m so sorry 😞 for it all).
But it has been a real pleasure talking to you😀
Oh, and of course, if the boy had been me, I would have paid the owner for the damage done to his car.
The Mercedes hood ornament can indeed incur damage if it is handled with prodigious force - but it has to give, in order not to injure a pedestrian or bicyclist too much in the event of a collision. Mercedes stars don’t sink into the radiator grille (in case of a crash) as the Flying Lady does on a Rolls- Royce 🙂
I hope that you have a great support network around you and are enjoying a fulfilling life. I’m sorry that the world did not appreciate you when you were younger, but I hope the people around you now do.
Yes, Ma‘am, thank God I have, and my parents, may they rest in peace, gave everything for me and for my wellbeing- although they had no clue either what was wrong with me 🙁
Autism was nearly unheard of when I was a child in the seventies, and I was only diagnosed at forty years old. Many of my network of helpers are much older or much younger than I am- maybe it’s because the older generation had paternal or maternal feelings towards me, and the teens and twens of the present era are generally much more familiar with autism or similar disorders - just like their American counterparts 😀
Thank you very much again 😀
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