11-27-2007, 11:22 AM
11-27-2007, 03:17 PM
I don't really understand the video. Is the young man in the suit supposed to be the one with autism?
Why was the old man talking to him? Did he know him?
Most of the buses where I live have switched to a recorded announcement of the next stop with an accompanying LED of the street name. It makes it easier to know where the bus is at on the route. The buses are also equipped to pick up wheelchairs and scooters. The worst problem I have experienced on public transit is overcrowding and a mass of students who tend to chatter and block the doors. Usually they will move if a loud "Please, excuse me, I need to get off" is offered. It is far from perfect. Once I was travelling with a friend who used a mobility scooter. We had a terrible time finding most of the lifts and entrances that did not have stairs at the transit stations.
Why was the old man talking to him? Did he know him?
Most of the buses where I live have switched to a recorded announcement of the next stop with an accompanying LED of the street name. It makes it easier to know where the bus is at on the route. The buses are also equipped to pick up wheelchairs and scooters. The worst problem I have experienced on public transit is overcrowding and a mass of students who tend to chatter and block the doors. Usually they will move if a loud "Please, excuse me, I need to get off" is offered. It is far from perfect. Once I was travelling with a friend who used a mobility scooter. We had a terrible time finding most of the lifts and entrances that did not have stairs at the transit stations.
11-27-2007, 04:50 PM
Car option: Turn right on city road, stop light at intersection, traffic backed up at stop light at corner, turn right on city road, stop light at intersection, reduce speed, turn right, proceed 5 MPH, turn right, proceed 5 MPH into designated employee parking space. Slightly over one mile. Return commute about 4500 feet.
Alternate option: Down hill, eating apple, listening to CD player (now with rechargeable Energizer e2 batteries to save the planet), turn right at bottom of hill, walk past bungalows, left at end of road, walk past several tenament buildings to end of road, left at end of road, walk past strip mall, over bridge, left around corner, walking one block to office building.
Bus: are you kidding? Pay $1.35 not to exercise?
Alternate option: Down hill, eating apple, listening to CD player (now with rechargeable Energizer e2 batteries to save the planet), turn right at bottom of hill, walk past bungalows, left at end of road, walk past several tenament buildings to end of road, left at end of road, walk past strip mall, over bridge, left around corner, walking one block to office building.
Bus: are you kidding? Pay $1.35 not to exercise?
11-27-2007, 10:19 PM
Forgot to add this one: The Receptionist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akbHef74zMM
Its the second part of The Autism National Society UK's promoting awareness video to help people think differently about autism..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akbHef74zMM
Its the second part of The Autism National Society UK's promoting awareness video to help people think differently about autism..
11-27-2007, 10:22 PM
Never judge what you do not understand, no two people are alike if on the spectrum or not.
I Was just thinking why I'm more than happy to have aspergers, maybe its because I really do now think differently about it. I now Understand the condition and have stop blaming everything on aspergers. Do not get me wrong, when first found out it was like losing myself. A life time of being misunderstood and confused its not easy to change over night. But from the moment I was diagnosed things just starting to full into place, make sense when it hadn't before.
I think far to many of us blame autism for everything and quite often its the associated conditions that really cause the problems. Hyper play and tantrums often caused by ADHD/ADD, mental retardation (extreme autism) often caused by Downs Syndrome and other mental illness's. I know they are associated condition, but quite often people not on the spectrum can have these also.
Autism is just the way we are wired and think and see a little differently, and I'm not saying its easy as I know only to well brought up in a world, continually being put down and told I was wrong, feeling lost and confused until I was diagnosed - which truly has been an amazing journey for me so far.....
I Was just thinking why I'm more than happy to have aspergers, maybe its because I really do now think differently about it. I now Understand the condition and have stop blaming everything on aspergers. Do not get me wrong, when first found out it was like losing myself. A life time of being misunderstood and confused its not easy to change over night. But from the moment I was diagnosed things just starting to full into place, make sense when it hadn't before.
I think far to many of us blame autism for everything and quite often its the associated conditions that really cause the problems. Hyper play and tantrums often caused by ADHD/ADD, mental retardation (extreme autism) often caused by Downs Syndrome and other mental illness's. I know they are associated condition, but quite often people not on the spectrum can have these also.
Autism is just the way we are wired and think and see a little differently, and I'm not saying its easy as I know only to well brought up in a world, continually being put down and told I was wrong, feeling lost and confused until I was diagnosed - which truly has been an amazing journey for me so far.....
11-27-2007, 10:26 PM
asplanet Wrote:
Never judge what you do not understand, no two people are alike if on the spectrum or not.
Autism is just the way we are wired and think and see a little differently, and I'm not saying its easy as I know only to well brought up in a world, continually being put down and told I was wrong, feeling lost and confused until I was diagnosed - which truly has been an amazing journey for me so far.....
Autism is just the way we are wired and think and see a little differently, and I'm not saying its easy as I know only to well brought up in a world, continually being put down and told I was wrong, feeling lost and confused until I was diagnosed - which truly has been an amazing journey for me so far.....
Quoted for truth.