I want to re-enact KICK-ASS. On their faces.

[flamingsword]

1. If you have not yet heard about the county of Sonoma CA separating an elderly gay couple and auctioning off their possessions, then allow me to state that it is legit and documented as well as being blood-boiling.

2. Further people volunteering to be justiced upon: Steven Seagal keeps sex slaves and assaults women. And is a douchebag, but we knew that already.

3. In better news, I am reading Quirky, Yes - Hopeless, No, a book on Asperger's kids and the very VERY most basic social skills, and I rather like the memories that it is bringing up, not because they were particularly nice memories, but because they show me how far I've come since I had no social skills. And some things have occurred to me: up until the six months before my brother died, nobody could have possibly known that I wasn't making eye contact, because they didn't know that I couldn't see people's faces. The glasses happened the summer before he died, and six months isn't all that long to draw a conclusion from. And my family probably assumed that since my dad doesn't look people in the eye much either, then maybe it was a mannerism I picked up from him. And after Larry died nobody held my behavior to any sort of standard other than knowing where I was at all times, which was pretty easy: I was wherever I could hide behind a book the longest.

4. I am putting off THE LIST until I have reinforcements. The fuzzy emotional cavalry are coming in the form of jslorentz and maybe kadairk if she's free that day.

Comments

[maeritrae.livejournal.com]

That looks like a really interesting book (although it irks me slightly that one of the headings they list is "Telling your child he has Asperger's" even though it's s statistically valid choice to make).

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

In English, the masculine form does include the feminine in general speech, it's just a really old rule that got PC'd.

[maeritrae.livejournal.com]

I accept that it's less cumbersome and not incorrect and so forth, but given that I know one girl who was told in school, "You know, you really do act like you have Asperger's...but of course, girls don't get that," I am a little sensitive on the issue of aspie pronouns. Aspie girls are rarer, but we do exist, dammit!