Re: Re: my child types...

ABCD,

You're doing great.  It's posts like this that I'm here for.   Many
thanks to you and your cohorts fseeing.

Tom

--- autisticdreaming <autisticdreaming@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> --- In autismlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tink" <tink.lecuyer@xxxx> wrote:
> >
> > We've had a bit of both type responses from the "purely" spiritual
> &
> > "purely" autism groups.  But, overall - any slams were not for
> Ben's
> > communications and/or how "we" might communicate together.  
> Definitely the
> > spirit-based groups wanted to "hear the message" - and had little 
> concern of
> > the "how the message" was produced.  FC remains suspect - so, any
> > communication produced this way will remain suspect - in *some* 
> minds.  WD's
> > line of "offender, offended, offense" remind me strongly of the 
> Chironic
> > aspects of ourselves: The Healers.  The Wounded healer.  Wounded, 
> healer,
> > and wounder. I loved that line:  "real-eyes" for "realize."    He
> is
> > bothered by injustices & expresses them in intensity with strong 
> emotion &
> > thru the music.
> > 
> > Crabtail - -- lol  it's ok.  Ben calls me "American woman" from 
> Guess Who
> > when he's super mad, and he is not beyond the intensity of those 
> feelings.
> > "American woman, get away from me-hee.  Mama let me be-hee."  I'm 
> happy to
> > write it's only happened twice in all the time I've known 
> him.  ::::whew::::
> > lol  When I'm just fine in the Ben world it's a line from "Howard's
> 
> End":
> > "i'm asking you to be my wife."  lol lol lol   They're pretty 
> hilarious
> > sometimes.
> > 
> > Do you know why WD calls you "mum" ?  That struck me odd & I don't 
> know why.
> > [also forgot to ask if you 2 made it up to Syracuse FC Institute 
> for a
> > visit?]
> 
> 
> 
> hello we never made it up theres as money was tight and we had 
> emergency issues going on here. im not sure about the mum part she 
> leaves out a lot of the vowels. and we do clean up misspellings too. 
> which enrages her when we dont get it right. so she adds more vowels 
> on nows as she gets impatient with us if we dont get it right off. so
> 
> mom or mum could easily have been just mm.  also she tends to pick 
> same sounding consonants depending on where she is closest to on the 
> letterboard. c.k.qu. she has phonological spelling too. like she may 
> state 'fc' now afters we coreccted her. but she spelled it 
> once 'fsees'. whats strange is that she was reported to have auditory
> 
> processing prblems. so go figure. we do have my nephews who insists 
> on making up his own variations of words and phrases and if we dont 
> have reason enough why he shouldn't. (we dont) we just let him. so he
> 
> call them 'f sees' and 'f seeing'because n. tried to correct him and 
> wrote fc. in which he became distressed until she agreed it was f see
> 
> communications.  N. once quipped."hey is it facilitated seeing? and 
> he clapped his hands. so thats on his folder. f see communications.  
> 
> we rotate communications so i wasnt actually the one who fsee'd with 
> her on this communication. that was with N. our student teacher from 
> Nova University.
> 
> by the way kids are having a blast with bens communications. my one 
> neice doesnt talk but sings and she sings out some phrases. it gets 
> all disconcerted though. 
> 
> ABCD
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Ben had 2 kind of odd notes for here:
> > 1.  a quote:
> > 
> > "I named my dog Willie, so sometimes when the phone rings and 
> somebody asks,
> > "Is Willie there?"  I can say, "Which one do you really want to 
> talk to?" ~
> > willie nelson.  [pointed out in a magazine]
> > 
> > 2.  a song:
> > 
> > Space Cowboy
> > 
> > By: Steve Miller and Ben Sidran
> > 
> > I told you 'bout living in the U.S. of A.
> > Don't you know that I'm a gangster of love
> > Let me tell you people that I found a new way
> > And I'm tired of all this talk about love
> > And the same old story with a new set of words
> > About the good and the bad and the poor
> > And the times keep on changin'
> > So I'm keepin' on top
> > Of every fat cat who walks through my door
> > 
> > I'm a space cowboy
> > Bet you weren't ready for that
> > I'm a space cowboy
> > I'm sure you know where it's at
> > Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
> > 
> > I was born on this rock
> > And I've been travelin' through space
> > Since the moment I first realized
> > What all you fast talkin' cats would do if you could
> > You know, I'm ready for the final surprise
> > There ain't no way around it
> > Ain't nothing to say
> > That's gonna satisfy my soul deep inside
> > All the prayers and surveyors
> > Keep the whole place uptight
> > While it keeps on gettin' darker outside
> > 
> > I'm a space cowboy
> > Bet you weren't ready for that
> > I'm a space cowboy
> > I'm sure you know where it's at
> > Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
> > 
> > I see the show downs, slow downs, lost and found, turn arounds
> > The boys in the military shirts
> > I keep my eyes on the prize, on the long fallen skies
> > And I don't let my friends get hurt
> > All you back room schemers, small trip dreamers
> > Better find something new to say
> > Cause you're the same old story
> > It's the same old crime
> > And you got some heavy dues to pay
> > 
> > I'm a space cowboy
> > Bet you weren't ready for that
> > I'm a space cowboy
> > I'm sure you know where it's at
> > Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
> > 
> > Best Blessings,
> > ~*~ Ben & tink
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: autismlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:autismlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On
> > Behalf Of autisticdreaming
> > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:42 AM
> > To: autismlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Autismlist] my child types...
> > 
> > 
> > this was sent to another group.  surprisingly the most open groups
> > ive been to that i have found the most support were groups that had
> > naught to do with autism. im not sure why but with my childs posts
> i
> > feel safer in some non autistic groups than in autistic groups. for
> > some reason i am more likely to just get slammed in an autistic
> > setting than in another forum. i will get a'this isnt autism.' from
> > someone or the other. but then maybe its not THEIR 'autism'... but 
> my
> > child IS severely autistic as is my nephew and they have their
> voice
> > as well as everyone else. this post she discribes the difference
> > between herself and myself. although we are both autistic we do see
> > things a bit differently..i can never really speak for her because 
> my
> > view is a bit more limited than herself..:
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > i am what wood b a crstall my mom an indgo. she worrez. she angrz
> > >eazili when peoplz lie. so i name her the crabtail. crankee
> > > crabtail...she seez that they liez and it angerz herself. i see
> > >that they lie and i have knowing of why they do so. i know theyer
> > >fearz theyer ancieatiez all they keep hidden and whyz. my mom seez
> > >sum. i see a bit morez. my mum can feel and take offens....as i
> > > am beyon time and spas i am seein al that iz.. i am the offender,
> > >the offended,  the offense
> > > i am all of these and more.
> > > my mum may focus sum on detailz.
> > > but all  moves within and thru owt myself. my mum sees something 
> to
> > >set rite somethin to  fite forz. i se no point of this as i am
> that
> > >whitch is fouht for and aganst...  all of theze i am. expereeans 
> all
> > > theze i do. for i am all of thez all at once  and agaen. my mum 
> may
> > >go on crusayd. find a wrthi micion. but i simply. am. i am  all 
> that
> > >is. all that i am. i am.  i am what they call crystal. but beyond
> > >this i simply am.
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > this from a friend of herself: and it brings hapiness that peoples
> > see herself just as she truly is.:
> > 
> > "...I hope Your sister can allow so that Your nephew doesn't have
> to
> > give up his exploring. Looking forward to the day We real-eyes that
> > autism is a more natural state than materialism, if not more
> normal.
> > Perhaps We will see the day when the "normal" will be to journey
> > within and without.  Lead on WD, We will ride rainbows and northern
> > lights as well as storms..."
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



        
                
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