Comments on: Autism - something to sing about? http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/08/03/autism-something-to-sing-about/ Ever the arty Autie Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:15:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Deborah I. Thorsos http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/08/03/autism-something-to-sing-about/#comment-11460 Deborah I. Thorsos Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:45:50 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/08/03/autism-something-to-sing-about/#comment-11460 Hi, I really love the song by Roza. I really commend people who develop enough sense of not bearing children where it would not work out. We decided many years ago that we would not have children. Wre worried that we would not be able to adequately provide for them, though we probably would not be worse then most parents. A few months ago I bought a magnet that relates to unity ibn diversity of which we both are striving for. It says; "In each of us there is a little of all of us" D. Lichtenberg. This is why I do not care for labels. They encourage prejudice when careless and people can get reduced to cold statics when we do not look at them as individuasls. But, the why things are set up we need labels to be eligitable for services and reimbursements and to find where to look up information about people who share certain traits as us. I just started to blog on www.myspace.com/dithorsos. I am including installments of my autobiography. Debbie Hi,
I really love the song by Roza. I really commend people who develop enough sense of not bearing children where it would not work out. We decided many years ago that we would not have children. Wre worried that we would not be able to adequately provide for them, though we probably would not be worse then most parents.
A few months ago I bought a magnet that relates to unity ibn diversity of which we both are striving for. It says; “In each of us there is a little of all of us” D. Lichtenberg. This is why I do not care for labels. They encourage prejudice when careless and people can get reduced to cold statics when we do not look at them as individuasls. But, the why things are set up we need labels to be eligitable for services and reimbursements and to find where to look up information about people who share certain traits as us.
I just started to blog on http://www.myspace.com/dithorsos. I am including installments of my autobiography.
Debbie

]]> By: Adrianna http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/08/03/autism-something-to-sing-about/#comment-11453 Adrianna Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:06:42 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/08/03/autism-something-to-sing-about/#comment-11453 Fancy seeing two of my MySpace friends on the same blog.:) I really liked hearing about autism and parenting. I think everything that was said should be commonsense for all parents of all children. Children abide by the same Golden Rule that we do. As far as family is concerned, my parents were metnally unstable but refused to resort to violence when raising me, and were usually able to apologize when they flew off the handle. I think something that would be really helpful for all parents, but especially non-autistic parents of autistic children, is to remember that your children will not be exact clones of you. My parents let me do pretty much whatever I wanted provided that I considered others before I acted, and was not harming myself or others. My parents got my respect by giving theirs, and I picked it up. If something went wrong, they got mad at first, but then we talked about it and agreed on a mutually satisfying solution. Probably what is most important is to consider the underlying motivation of a child. My parents did not get angry when I threw a temper tantrum whenever an ambulance drove by. They knew it was because I was sensitive, and did not know how to deal with it. Things like that. Fancy seeing two of my MySpace friends on the same blog.:)

I really liked hearing about autism and parenting. I think everything that was said should be commonsense for all parents of all children. Children abide by the same Golden Rule that we do.

As far as family is concerned, my parents were metnally unstable but refused to resort to violence when raising me, and were usually able to apologize when they flew off the handle.

I think something that would be really helpful for all parents, but especially non-autistic parents of autistic children, is to remember that your children will not be exact clones of you. My parents let me do pretty much whatever I wanted provided that I considered others before I acted, and was not harming myself or others. My parents got my respect by giving theirs, and I picked it up.
If something went wrong, they got mad at first, but then we talked about it and agreed on a mutually satisfying solution. Probably what is most important is to consider the underlying motivation of a child. My parents did not get angry when I threw a temper tantrum whenever an ambulance drove by. They knew it was because I was sensitive, and did not know how to deal with it. Things like that.

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