Comments on: Classical Gas/Autism Optimism http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/10/20/classical-gasautism-optimism/ A blog about mental health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mickey morgan http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/10/20/classical-gasautism-optimism/comment-page-1/#comment-3890 mickey morgan Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:27:54 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2008/10/20/classical-gasautism-optimism/#comment-3890 Dear Liz, I just watched 2 of your Youtube videos and I like you already! You cheered me up somehow as I head to a new psychiatrist who I pray will help me with spasmodic tortocollis/psychogenic dystonia that I'm certain had its beginnings in several years of Seroquel. Thank you thank you sweet girl . . . I'll get back to you later peace, mickey Dear Liz,
I just watched 2 of your Youtube videos and I like you already! You cheered me up somehow as I head to a new psychiatrist who I pray will help me with spasmodic tortocollis/psychogenic dystonia that I’m certain had its beginnings in several years of Seroquel.
Thank you thank you sweet girl . . . I’ll get back to you later
peace,
mickey

]]> By: Jason http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/10/20/classical-gasautism-optimism/comment-page-1/#comment-3889 Jason Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:28:06 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2008/10/20/classical-gasautism-optimism/#comment-3889 As an autistic man, with an autistic son, I found that issue of US Weekly, well disgusting. And not just for the half of the magazine filled with celebrity gossip. Autism, as I have come to understand it, and deal with it, is not something you can "beat". It is something you learn to live with, and while you can be trained to work with people who are not autistic and function in normal society, you always feel different from them, because you experience things in ways they can't understand. It would be easier for me to explain a rainbow to someone has been blind all of their life than to explain what I feel, and sometimes don't feel. As an autistic man, with an autistic son, I found that issue of US Weekly, well disgusting. And not just for the half of the magazine filled with celebrity gossip.

Autism, as I have come to understand it, and deal with it, is not something you can “beat”. It is something you learn to live with, and while you can be trained to work with people who are not autistic and function in normal society, you always feel different from them, because you experience things in ways they can’t understand.

It would be easier for me to explain a rainbow to someone has been blind all of their life than to explain what I feel, and sometimes don’t feel.

]]> By: erin http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/10/20/classical-gasautism-optimism/comment-page-1/#comment-3888 erin Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:11:42 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2008/10/20/classical-gasautism-optimism/#comment-3888 just as mccain probably thought women across the country would back his vp choice simply because she's a woman, he probably thinks that parents with special needs children are also naive enough to fall for his rhetoric. i think he's in for a fierce slap in the jowls come election day. just as mccain probably thought women across the country would back his vp choice simply because she’s a woman, he probably thinks that parents with special needs children are also naive enough to fall for his rhetoric. i think he’s in for a fierce slap in the jowls come election day.

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