Aspies For Freedom

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/art...laces.html

Could do without it being referred to as a 'brain disorder' though....

I think Ocampo was being sarcastic about the Daily Fail's (like it! ) stance on homosexuality.

Harry Potter character Dumbledore has apparently been outed as gay.

I think Ocampo was commenting on this particularly hateful tabloids stance on such issues, criticising homosexuality while holding up heterosexual family values as the be all and end all.  While failing to acknowledge the failures in the heterosexuality nuclear family system over recent decades.

I think Ocampo was being sarcastic and pointing out the hypocrisy of that type of reporting, rather than having a go at the institution of marriage itself or divorce.

(But I might be wrong, althouh that's what I understood Ocampo to have been getting at, will stand corrected if wrong though.)

Ocampo, I think you mean 'new labour'

I read the daily mail though, for the main reason that they savage the shyte out of new labour at every possible opportunity

*waves wand at aliengirl and turns her into a cute furry lil kitteh*

LOL. Only at AFF...

Was it a real wasp, or a shapechanging alien with it's mind locked in a jewel?

Sunday night reminded me why I love Doctor Who...

Derailment complete.  

I'm getting a Doctor Strangelove movie rented from Netflix. Has anyone seen Grave of the Fireflies?

I was in adaptive PE until high school, because I had difficulty with co-ordination and balance. Nowadays after three years of tae kwon do I'm a lot better with it, and intend to take gymnastics lessons in a few months.

Thread re-railed.

In other news, Gareth Nelson has dyspraxia, and was diagnosed with it at age 8.

Oh, and it's very accurate to call dyspraxia a brain disorder: nothing good about it, and sometimes really badly sucks.

I really see nothing at all offensive with using the term "brain disorder" or "neurological disorder" when it's used accurately. Dyspraxia is something that at least for me really sucks. My gross motor skills have improved very slightly over the years, but I still find myself having to use the text phone instead of voice in order to communicate properly.

I find this interesting, as for myself my fine motor co-ordination on certain tasks with practice is in some cases superior. For example, touch typing and playing the guitar are 2 tasks that i've practiced a lot and thus find very very simple by this point.

Aliengirl, I can reccomend martial arts, I never did tae kwon do, but I used to do karate before my knee got too bad, (although yay I got that fixed recently), and did a bit of training with nunchucks, they were great for improving coordination, if a little dangerous while your getting used to em

I've found the basics of the guitar or piano to be rather like riding a bike - you just don't forget how to fret a guitar, even if you may forget individual chords (besides the standard open majors) or pieces.

I have.  Very sad.

In the world of the Harry Potter books Neville Longbottom has dyspraxia, not Harry Potter.

Really?
Because I don't recall that ever being mentioned, and diagnosing fictional characters is rather pointless. As for the title of this thread - I wish it would say "Harry Potter star has dyspraxia" rather than "Harry Potter has dyspraxia", since it's fairly obvious that the character does not have dyspraxia.