Here is a link to the ABC Nightline story that aired tonight about Surfers Healing. Aspie Boy is one of the kids featured in this story.
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Well, maybe!
This past August, Aspie Boy took part in a Surf Camp for Autistic Kids in San Diego, CA run by Surfers Healing. A crew from ABC TV’s Nightline was there to cover the event. Aspie Boy is one of the children that will be featured in the episode airing on Monday, October 29. Unless there is ‘breaking news’ or something.
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Saturday we are heading to San Diego for some overdue R&R and associated heat avoidance through –probably– next Saturday. The primary thing we have planned is a surf camp for autistic kids on Wednesday.
The videos at the Surfer’s Healing site are really nice. Some of you may recall an ESPN commercial about taking autistic kids surfing and the rewards of sports. These are those folks.
I grew up in Kansas listening to the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean in the 1960s, but I’m not living vicariously. Really, I’m not! 
Ever since we saw Surf’s Up he has been adamant about going surfing. We’ll see how that plan survives contact with the ocean. We’re into sharks, too, but I’m not going to bring that one up when we’re at the beach…
In addition, there will be Sea World (Aspie Boy thinks he wants to get splashed by Shamu), the Zoo and Wild Animal Park, LEGOLand, the Museum of Man and doubtless other things. Any suggestions for things to do or not miss?
In the meantime, be well.
Amanda posted this yesterday, but my server was not cooperating with me earlier when I tried to echo her post. I have contributed to Kassiane as I value her posts and contributions to the community surrounding the Hub. I hope you will consider doing the same.
Kassiane needs help
Kassiane, a.k.a. Rett Devil, has been an online friend and advocate for a long time. She is in a lot of trouble at the moment. This video explains it. It’s basically an emergency situation and she needs money for meds to keep her from going into status epilepticus among other things (edited to add: status epilepticus means having seizures back to back without regaining consciousness): <…>
If you have money to spare, please give to Kassiane for lifesaving medicine and living expenses.Her Paypal name is kassiane_alexandra at yahoo dot com [edited by me to avoid spam crap]
It’s a much better use of your money than giving it to Autism Speaks or a similar hate group.
ABFH tagged me (thanks!) with the 8 Random Things Meme which is, as they say, going around.
The rules: (again with the rules!)
1. Let others know who tagged you.
2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves. [this tantamount to asking an Aspie to "go be spontaneous!" --ed.]
3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
4. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.
This should be interesting to all involved!
1. I am allergic to oranges.
2. I learned to swim when I was very young, too young to have any memory of not being able to swim.
3. I have been way too interested in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien for far too long. Besides multiple copies of nearly everything JRRT put out and a great deal of the commentary associated with Middle Earth, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien himself, I have all of the books his son Christopher has put out concerning his father’s works. And I’ve read them all. That’s a muscle you don’t get to flex much…
4. I never know how to answer those coworkers and NT friends of friends that make some supposedly funny or ribald comment and then ask me, “You know what I mean?” I never know what they mean. I seldom know what to say, but I often know what to write.
5. By choice, I lived out of my 1961 VW Beetle in a tent and sleeping bag from 1981 to 1985. I was a field archaeologist and it was just easier to be a nomad.
6. I don’t miss the high humidity and mosquitoes I remember from the Mid-western summers in Kansas, Missouri or Illinois. I do, however, miss fireflies like crazy.
7. Few things are better on a hot summer’s day than sitting under a shade tree drinking iced tea in a mason jar. Add chilled ripe tomatoes picked off the vine this morning and it goes to 11.
8. I really dislike wearing long pants. With the exception of a stint from 2000-2004, I have been able to wear shorts to work since 1991.
I’ll tag eight other people, uh, soon.