My how time flies…
Things are still pretty crazy around here, I am still unemployed and home schooling, and Aspie Mom is progressing on her Ph.D. Not crazy things include Aspie Boy who, thanks to pharmaceuticals and therapies, is really coming along. Sometimes two steps forward and one step back, but I’m not sure that isn’t just childhood some of the time.
No, I am positive it is.
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This was over at Eliot’s and I’ve just got around to posting it here. I don’t know about you, but I am surprised when I meet a teen or adult Fan and they’re not on the spectrum.
School is starting up soon. My son used to attend a preschool/kindergarten for special-needs kids and their siblings, and now he’s going on to a public school, though still in the special education program. He’s cool with it, but I am a little freaked. It has brought up a whole childhood can of worms regarding my less-than-lovely educational experience, and makes me reflect on issues of social acceptance for neurologically atypical people overall. That leads me to fandom. I can’t help but think neurodiveristy is an area in which science fiction and fantasy fans are a long, long ways ahead of society in general.
A few years ago I attended a panel at Norwescon that was supposed to be about the future of psychology but quickly became a discussion of the neurological make-up of fandom. The lively and engaged discussion covered dyslexia, Asperger’s, ADHD, autism, sensory integration dysfunction, and related topics. The general consensus was that among convention-goers, the percentage of people with such atypical neurology ranged around 60 to 70 percent. Almost all the audience members who spoke identified with one or more of the above, or mentioned a close relative that did. (Tor.com)
The corollary of ‘measure twice, cut once’ for computer use is something like, ‘README twice, click ‘upgrade automatically?” once.
I knew — somewhere, just not front and center — that the auto-upgrade feature of WordPress would overwrite any code you may have inserted into the ‘classic’ or ‘default’ themes. So, the sidebar and footer are ‘default’ now.
I knew that.
I think I have backups around here, somewhere… (/rolls eyes)
First grade is over and Aspie Boy is already telling us that he doesn’t want to see any homework because it’s SUMMER!
My mother passed away this morning. She was most of the way through a seven-week regimen of radiation and chemotherapy for a recurrence of a lung cancer that she was operated on for 4 years ago.
The tumor had been reduced in size by 50%, but her lung function was simply not up to the task.
My father passed in 1992.
/sigh