Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Hey, so I'm fluff. But I'm
notable fluff!!!!!! As
Laura was nice enough to point out to me, the
The Portland Phoenix has included me in a listing of
Bloggers in Maine. And even though I am well aware of my fluffy-ness, it is still a bit of an ego blow to be listed underneath the words "...sad, happy, witty, tired, pregnant, broke navel-gazing...". *sigh* But any publicity is good publicity I suppose. LOL
So anyway. Ian's (hopefully) final Speech Language evaluation is tomorrow at his school. After this recommendations will be made and we will be put on yet another wait list for therapy. This one will be the Pragmatic Speech Therapy. I watched
Law and Order Sunday night and the "bad guy" turned out to be the guy with Asperger's Syndrome. And they used the syndrome as a method of catching him. The fixation on patterns and things like that. It only took about 2 seconds of watching the character for me to realize what they were trying to portray. I said flat out "Asperger's" as soon as he opened his mouth. Now I'm all for bringing the diagnosis to the forefront because they have really only been diagnosing it for the last 10 years or so. But to portray a guy as being a criminal mastermind serial killer as a result of his disability is rather frightening. I was talking to Martie and she was a bit appalled as well. It's like lumping them in with violent paranoid schizophrenics. The Asperger's didn't make the guy plot and plan the murders, his own deficient personality and lack of coping mechanisms did that. The Asperger's made him good at it but it also got him caught.
So that's all about that. I have finally broached the subject of god with Ian. Not real comfortable with that. Right now, we are discussing how god caused a big explosion and then set up all the rules for how things would react. Gravity, time, evolution, inertia et. al. He is getting pretty involved in the evolutionary process right now, of course, because it has to do with dinosaurs. We got out the Big White Dinosaur book and looked in the section that talks about all the Pre-Permean periods right back to where the first multi-cellular life forms began swimming in the sea. He surprised me the other day by asking me what humans were going to evolve into. Sort of caught me off guard. I told him that was an excellent question and one scientists are probably asking in laboratories all over the world. But I really don't know. That seemed to satisfy him. At least for now. He got really frustrated with me when I told him that crocodiles probably weren't going to evolve into anything because they have been relatively unchanged for the last 100 million odd years. He is convinced that they will evolve into something. Darnit!!! LOLOL He has been playing around on the Animal Planet site
The Future is Wild lately. We watched the show when we still had cable and he thought is was just great. He does amazingly well on the computer for a 4 year old. :oD
Well, I've gotta go get the kiddies from school. So if any of you are visiting from the Portland Phoenix, HI!!!
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