Monday, July 21, 2008

The language that is Autistic






Some look at autism as a kidnapping. The Child that came home from the hospital isn’t the child you have once autism takes effect. 1 in 150 births or 1 to 1.5 million Americans is diagnosed, but how many go undiagnosed. Why are boy four times more likely to develop this disease than girls. Is there a reason? Is this a phantom disease? I don’t know studies can be manipulated to reveal what ever you want. X-Chromosome, Mercury, child hood vaccines mothers blaming themselves, and wondering what they could have done to inflict their child.


There were several points in the movie “Autism the Musical” that raised questions or reason for thought for me. The father who was in a Rock Band saying he understood the children. How he used his guitar as a way to separate himself from the rest of the world, why because the world didn’t understand him. The Acting Coaches’ Son saying I want you to listen. Tells me no matter what you do to communicate with the child that is autistic if you don’t speak the language you can’t be understood.
Autistic children are described as Uncharacteristic, not conforming to the usual type or expected pattern. Atypical patterns of interest or behavior.

We do everything we can to make the autistic child fit in to our world. What do we do to fit into their world?
Autism is a handicap that isn’t localized to the individual but to the family and community.

The family has to find a way to communicate and live with the child that is autistic. The community has to find a way to embrace the autistic child. Find a way to integrate the child into the community. But what happens, we try to make the child communicate and live in the way that is already established and acceptable by society. We believe that is the only way they will be able to exist in society as we interpret.

It reminds me of being forced to speak the German language and Learn the German Culture then replacing it with your American Culture or language. To the autistic Child everything makes sense, until asked to explain it in a language that can be understood. Does the child understand life as we see it, but just isn’t able to communicate that understanding. Their super sensitively to sounds, color or smells, their need for controlled order, from the outside looking in this doesn’t make sense. But from the inside looking out this is the way things are suppose to exist. Instead of a square peg fitting into a round hole it is a round peg fitting into a square hole there are gaps.

http://autism.healingthresholds.com/glossary#term105)

http://www.nas.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly (the national autistic society)

http://www.autism-society.org

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Prayer

To whom it may concern:
Um could you please make this lottery ticket be a winning ticket?
I promise I will give a little to the poor.
To Whom It May Concern:
Could you do something about the Gas prices?
Thank you for this earth,
Thank you for my life and the lives of my family and friends.
Thank you for all the people and the animals, of this earth
Thank you for everything that makes me happy.
I petition that no one gets shot, stabbed, raped or beaten up today

There are so many different types of religions; people have their special way of expressing how or what they communicate and worship. They are passionate about their faith and teach their children to believe the same way. Train a child the way he should go and when he is old he will not turn from it. (Proverbs 22:6) The teaching is passed down from generation to generation. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:15) It usually doesn’t change for the child until they leave home and begin to question or challenge the foundation of their faith. At some point a child will either decide the way they were raised is the way they want to continue or decide there is a better way.
What is it that a child “won’t depart from” the logistic of prayer or words of prayer or the basis or spirit of prayer.

Prayer is an earnest request for something, with a slight chance or hope things will change. It is sometimes expressed in praise, thanksgiving, confession sometimes it is a chance to vent.
In a public form unless everyone agrees on a particular way of praying it is unfair to make every one pray in a dictated way. If you go to a private Christian based school then yes you pray the way that church prays and study the bible the way that church studies.
But in a public school any prayers or studies would have to be sensitive to all faiths.

When someone addresses a letter “to whom it may concern” it is because they don’t know who would get the letter. And this is a way to address the person with respect.
When people pray they know who they are praying to, to ask someone to pretend not to know is as unfair as to insist someone else to pray a dictated or generic prayer. People who pray or meditate are very passionate with how they pray. Anyone who prays believes the way they pray is the best way.
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. (Eph 6:18)
In a corporate prayer it has to address everyone’s concern from pre-Christian Europe to Abrahamic religions to eastern religions to anism to neopaganism. How do you generate a spoken word that will address every one? Catholic vs. protestant both believe in Jesus Christ and his teaching but the logistics of each faith varies slightly and that variance caused a riot.


When you wake up in the morning you might spend time on the side of the bed you call it just trying to wake up. Someone else calls it meditation others calls it prayer.
Prayer or meditation centers you; it gives you a chance to, quiet your spirit, think on the greatness of the universe, voice your concerns, or make a request. What I see as greatness may not agree with what you see is greatness but never the less it is still great.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Are food companies to blame for America's obesity?




Work force, the economy, video games, virtual reality TV shows stress is the blame for America’s obesity. We are left with the choice to be entertain vs. being entertaining. The choice to watch someone else’s life unfolds vs. full participation in our own life. We are losing the desire to break an honest sweat. We No longer want to be a part of playing or participating in games that require physical movement. We would rather watch someone else but we are very supportive of their endeavors.
We are tired from working, over stressed from work and any escape is welcomed. Second life is a virtual world where you get a second chance at a life you wish you had. If you don’t like that life just delete it and start over again.

1978 – 2008 in the last 30 years, I’ve seen more women going in to the work force as single parents. Some maintaining at least two jobs, one full time, one part time. Still managing the family some of that managing means stopping into Mickey D’s for dinner. Or ordering Pizza’s on the way home.
I remember as a teen my mother working. My siblings and I were responsible for preparing the dinner with menu complete with desert. On Friday’s we would have fish I remember going to the fish market with my mother picking a flounder going home and she would cook.
Eventually she started stopping by Burger king on her way home. We would have whoppers, French fries, and milk shake.
Finally she was too tired to stop by Burger king and started sending me to pick up the Friday meal.


Women are taking on an equal portion of monetary responsibilities.
Men are embracing an equal portion of managing the home.
Women have looked at home bound duties as jobs.
What has happen couples are working a full time job and a part time job if the home responsibilities are shared. It is easier to pick something up instead of planning and preparing a healthy meal for the family. That is what the TV commercials advertise, especially after a long day at work. At least the family gets to sit down together.
The Food Companies met the demand of the customer. “Hurry up fix it so I can eat it and go to sleep”

Should elementary students be exposed to high sugar diets?
No, for the teacher’s sake no…
A high sugar diet is as giving crack. There is a massive high and just as destructive low. It is confusing, education as it is doesn't need any extra distractions associated with sugar.

If we serve sugar based cereal for breakfast and for an afternoon snack as well as an evening tie over, we teach our kids the easiest and quickest way is better. And it taste good.
It takes time to plan and prepare a healthy meal, time well spent if we want to see America slim down in time for the summer.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

The dominoes effect:



Who killed the electric Car?
It was not killed it was sacrificed.
This is a study on the productivity, performance and progress in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, which The Conference Board is running in conjunction with Gulf Investment Corporation.
Sluggish productivity and an over reliance on oil and gas pose a threat to the future economic expansion of the countries in the Gulf Region. Such an over-reliance on natural resources is a shaky foundation for long term economic development and will hold back other sectors of the economy, such as high productivity manufacturing and financial services.
(Growing beyond Oil
Productivity, Performance, and Progress in the Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council
By Bart van Ark, Ewout Frankema, Vlad Manole, and Andrew Tank
With the Gulf Investment Corporation
Production date June 2008
R-1426-08-RR)

In essence Money is being made in the oil business abroad but not being reinvested in the local economy over all. Although the money looks good it is considered “Superficial
impression of affluence”. (R-1426-08-RR) Jobs are not being created.
The EV1 would not have been profitable economically for this nation. (Securitization: Preparation of marketable securities.)
If the car had survived and lived, a lot of people would be out of business or unemployed.
The birth, life, and death of the EV1 brought awareness to a nation that has become umbilically dependent on oil and gas. The responsibility is to find a way to use oil and gas but not destroy the earth in the process. Destruction is not only found in the OZONE
But in unemployment, if the hybrid is the answer then make a better hybrid.
If I heard a mechanic say working on the EV1 was a cleaner job and I sold soap. I don’t hear “ Oh good he gets to go home with clean hands” I hear my profits going down.
I hear my kids not getting into the best schools because I can’t afford to send them. I hear the schools saying we have to close the school because we don’t have enough students to support the school. It would only be the beginning of a dominoes effect.