Sometimes it's like yeah yeah yeah, so-and-so is super wealthy...
I saw this guy driving up the tiny 'rich shopper's lane-way' in the city here today - in a weird-colored new Lamborghini. He was maybe thirty-seven, sporting modern highly groomed short hair.
He gunned the engine down the fifty yards of lane-way to make sure everyone knew he was there - and it made that silly clattering sound they all do, with their ceramic-lined pistons. There was a girl in the passenger's side.
You'd hope no empty-headed butterfly would own one of these! |
This coming February we will be joining up with a local city council's events also being run in a lane-way somewhere in a super-wealthy suburb.
And you will be part of it because there, we will be doing some of the Autism Project stuff and there will be photo-ops although I doubt that I will choose to step into a frame. Might stick a hand or a leg into one... ...maybe.
There have been some extraordinarily generous contributions from some of you throughout the past year and you will be able to see at least in part on what this all goes. The other fact is, basic 'interest' and keeping in touch and paying attention is a great part these days, of what makes anything 'work,' because you always need a level of engagement, especially on-line. It's not always about money, and not everyone is always in any position to spend cash in a world in which it does seem that everyone is perpetually seeking money.
And you're in with celebrities because there will be people like JES and others supporting it.
The community at large around the whole globe - and that includes government people too - have little to exactly no real idea what Autism is all about in practical reality: they 'might' have some radically incorrect impressions garnered from Hollywood movies and media poor reporting.
I am always trying to be conscious of finding ways to engage the ordinary community into a better understanding of the real Autism context - especially as it impacts on parents, carers, and teachers who have to deal with this extreme edge of the human psychology spectrum.
I am also increasingly conscious in recent days of not inflaming people who read stuff here(!), to go out and just splurge on cool things! LOL Sorry. But I don't want you to get obsessed like Autistic people often can get.
This thing - well you can make electricity as well as your coffee just from burning things in it. |
Originally I was posting pics of cool stuff because, well -, they're cool.
And now I'm thinking 'Oh god, what if people have those images in their minds and they're tossing and turning thinking about ways to go out and get the stuff they have seen here.?'
I myself spent countless hours this week thinking about an emergency portable crank-handle and solar cell-powered radio in case there is a sudden snow bomb down here...
It is going to be over forty degrees Celsius here next week.
So maybe I can wait another few days or so.
LOL
What's the 'dividend' on a handful of parents and carers of Autistic kids suddenly seeing and having gameful things that their kids will be able to do?
Well I tell you what. I will ask the glamorous people 1. in their Lamborghinis about it, and then 2. the ultra-glamorous people in their space ships what they think.
One of them will surely give you a ride in their machine...
You know it's obviously quite funny for me - people who walk around the place at these shows see us as one thing... ...and we are something way outside of even their wildest imaginings!!
If you want to know what the ET Aliens think, stick your absolute best headphones on and sit back in your favorite armchair with your eyes closed and listen:
My nephew was diagnosed this year as being on the autism spectrum. High functioning with focus and behaviour “issues” compounded with auditory processing disorder and affecting reading but not math. He is 9 and it had taken over 2 years for him to get seen by a specialist.
ReplyDeleteHe is a handful and he is loved big time, but Mum often needs some respite. I hope your project day goes well!
I did splurge on something not overly expensive and not related to any of the pics you have posted recently. I was hesitant to buy it initially but I left it in the hands of the universe (that sounds so dumb) and it was almost just magically handed to me).
Anyway. It’s just gone Happy New Year here so Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!!
ReplyDeleteTotal handfuls. LOL
Mum needs a cup of tea ALONE and a shoulder massage - regularly.
Enjoy whatever you splurged on. Enjoy EVERYTHING! Life is a party; just say the mantra 'Radhe Bhol Hari Bhol' over and over (supposed to be 108 times). Works.