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Cranbiz is not a marsupial, but he's cool enough that he could have been.

Big Wallaby wrote:Howdy! Welcome back to SGT! Don't be such a stranger.

Cranbiz is not a marsupial, but he's cool enough that he could have been.

Oh, please forgive me for being an SG, I confused WOMBAT the marsupial with CRANBIZ the bus driver. Just totally ignore my last post. Thank you.

As for the cause of the upswing in autism cases, you may find this useful: http://www.food.consumercide.com/soy=compl.html , http://soyonlineservice.co.nz/ , http://www.westonaprice.org . When you consider how much soy has invaded the food chain, it makes sense.

Whazzup wrote:Oh, please forgive me for being an SG, I confused WOMBAT the marsupial with CRANBIZ the bus driver. Just totally ignore my last post. Thank you.

I never did look good with a pouch.

Big Wallaby wrote:Cranbiz is not a marsupial, but he's cool enough that he could have been.

Maybe I can be an honorary marsupial?

Cranbiz wrote:I never did look good with a pouch.

Maybe I can be an honorary marsupial?

You mean that WASNT you I saw wearing that hideous neon pink fanny pack last time?

As Duckie says,


Nope, Nope, Nope.

Cranbiz wrote:I never did look good with a pouch.

Maybe I can be an honorary marsupial?

As far as I'm concerned, all the SGT regulars can be honorary marsupials. The more the merrier!

Randy B wrote:Every person on the planet has a disability in something. Some people can write poetry but can not balance their checkbook. Thats a disability. Some can read a book at a blazing speed but driving to a new place or via a new route get so lost that they never could get anywhere without help. That's a disability. Nobody can do absolutely everything perfect. Thus each and every one of us do have multiple disabilities. So there is a percentage of people whos disabilities are visible or obvious. Heck even the prevalence of GPS Navigation devices indicates a disability in a large portion of the population that prevents navigating from one place to another without getting lost, while adjusting to possible changes to available routes.

The flip side of this is every one of us has abilities. We all have strengths that we are specifically good at. They may not be obvious, but they are there. Some of the disabilities restrict the ability to move and/or communicate and thus may make our abilities less useful or obvious. But they are there.

So while I agree that disabilities may need to be acknowledged and compensated for, completely rejecting anyone with a disability will eventually reject every single person. I also recognize that there may be some persons whos disabilities or side effects from their disabilities may be unable to experience everything, and that needs to be recognized too. Also if a side effect will cause undue discomfort to the masses around them, some adjustments may need to be made to allow all to enjoy activities to their personal limits. I do not include the "I don't want to be reminded of disablities" attitude in that "undue discomfort".

So, personally, I wish to encourage everyone to experience their life (including leasure activities) to the best of their ability. But every one of us have to be ready to compensate for the disabilities and assist others who need our particular strengths.

JMHO

Randy

So very, very true.

Christine43 wrote:Susi, is Ralph your husband? He does have some very autistic like tendencies so you know my life very well and I'm so very sorry to hear that he had an accident that caused these injuries. It does sound like you're handling them very well and thank you so much for all your kind words to me. You really are living my life too in a way. You are a great person too and Ralph sounds like a sweetheart. Christine

Yes, Ralph is my husband and he is a 43 yr old man who had a very nasty run in with a car on his motorcycle when he was 20. He suffered a contra coup, which means his brain sloshed back and forth inside his skull several times banging against the walls of the skull everytime. He was in hospital 2 and half yrs and was in a coma for 3 months, semi comatose for 6 months and then had to relearn everything. He also died 4 times in the hospital. God had other plans. :) He has also had well over 70 surgeries.

He is a survivor and he is amazing. If you spent just a short time with him, you might notice slight speech things or notice how he walks, but having lived with him for 13 years now, I see patterns of behavior that do mimic Aspergers. He does not have it per se, but some of his actions sure look like Aspergers.

I believe it was the accident that caused these changes in him. I did not know him back then, but from what I garner from friends and family he was a pretty normal guy who went to the Air Force Academy and was afraid of girls. ;) He can be very shy around females. He also has a very high IQ! It can be daunting, because he is very bright. He attended classes at UC Berkeley as a sophomore in high school in an accelerated program. He loves math and music. Music is based on mathematics and thus interests him a great deal. He is oblivious to social news like all the Hollywood gossip and TV show and popular culture, preferring to immerse himself in non-fiction books about science and math as well as spy novels! ;) He loves James Bond!!!!

He just is a truly amazing human being with all that he has had to endure from the accident. It ended his Air Force career. At the time he was crosstraining with the Navy Seals in a special forces program. He wanted to be Special Forces and then move on to law enforcement on a more secret level. He is now a big, goofy Disney loving guy that had his entire life turned upside down by an idiot behind the wheel of a car who hit him head on, then sped away and left Ralph there on the side of the road. There was an off duty fireman behind Ralph on the road and he got the license # and called for help. They caught the guy! Ralph would be dead if not for that fireman!
So he has good life now and is happy and alive. Considering the alternative, that ain't too bad in his eyes! :) And he inspires me to be a better person everyday of my life!
sues

BRWombat wrote:As far as I'm concerned, all the SGT regulars can be honorary marsupials. The more the merrier!

Then let us call it done!

Susi, thanks for explaining about Ralph's accident, I didn't have enough bravery to ask exactly what happened before.
It is truly a miracle that he is here, and you HAVE told us how much you two mean to each other, it is very inspiring.
It is very much like Asperger's when you speak of his traits, we know so little of why the brain can switch off some things, yet other items become intensified.
There is actually some debate in the autism community as to when we find "The Cure", do we really want to prevent some of the special abilities that some Aspies have?(Some very creative people in history were "Aspies")
Now, I know that you or I would like to turn back time and prevent whatever happened to our loved ones to change them into neurotypical people, but there are many people who have Asperger's who are satisfied with who they are.
I believe there are a multitude of causes, and that we are many years from a "Cure" anyway, I just intend to bring up some of the issues that occur when we talk about people's differences.