tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843455.post6009636860001806508..comments2023-11-04T03:33:38.419-04:00Comments on You Are My Minions: Bad ScienceLandruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954074164878242561noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843455.post-28703299194672997832008-03-05T12:27:00.000-05:002008-03-05T12:27:00.000-05:00Ban-Bam is very lucky to have you for a dad, Landr...Ban-Bam is very lucky to have you for a dad, Landru! Very lucky!<BR/><BR/>I know there is no magic cure for my son with autism, but I still want the Blue Fairy to come and wave her magic wand if she can.<BR/><BR/>I think my adult kid is pretty much harder than Bam-Bam. Less communicative abilities certainly. He also has all the size, speed and aggressiveness that made his dad an NCAA national champion athlete. When you have autism on top of those qualities this makes you a "scarey person" so far as everyone who is not his parent is concerned. It's not good to be a scarey person.<BR/><BR/>My kid is also one of the Changelings, who was very smart, very social and normally talkative before losing it all within a few days. Literally a couple of days. An emerging personality was all but wiped out.<BR/><BR/>I know there is no cure that will "normalize" him (whatever that actually means) but the brain is a complex & inter-related thing. Some event - or some thing - changed it/him. So I will always look for some thing to help him jump back into the "normal" pool of people. His life will be so much better. <BR/><BR/>I can double-track while I do this: accept him for who he is now and at the same time keep looking for ways to help him be better than he is. All parents do this, for all their children. I just have to look at a different variety of things to help him be who he wants to be.<BR/><BR/>I mentioned the Blue Fairy at the top of this comment. When he was 8 & 9 years old my son wore out the Blue Fairy scene on our tape of Pinochio - the one where she waves her magic wand and turns Pinochio into a Real Boy. In those days when he virtually never made eye-contact he looked right at me and said one of his few full sentences: "Max be Real Boy." He did this several times, and waited expectantly. His favorite toy (after snap-together beads and trains) was a magic wand. <BR/><BR/>He wants help. <BR/>He asked me for it.<BR/>Directly.<BR/><BR/>So I will keep looking even if some of the things I look at don't make sense. It never made sense that he lost what he lost that week in February of 1987.<BR/><BR/>Sorry for the long, ramblng comment.Swamihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098697628276949479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843455.post-44649934881752993502008-03-05T09:24:00.000-05:002008-03-05T09:24:00.000-05:00Scientifically, yes. Dead as a doornail. But bal...Scientifically, yes. Dead as a doornail. But balls are not secured, and hearts and minds will not follow.Landruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11954074164878242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843455.post-8214429977495990452008-03-05T05:57:00.000-05:002008-03-05T05:57:00.000-05:00And seriously, I thought that thimerisol thing was...And seriously, I thought that thimerisol thing was killed long ago. But Wampum quoted these California fairly recently:<BR/><BR/>http://wampum.wabanaki.net/vault/2008/01/004128.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843455.post-12647532924492070352008-03-04T22:26:00.000-05:002008-03-04T22:26:00.000-05:00Bill Maher also believes that eating meat causes c...Bill Maher also believes that eating meat causes cancer and all manner of social ills. He loves PETA and is on the board. <BR/><BR/>My link to the HuffPo disappeared some while back but thank you for the warning not to ever go there.<BR/><BR/>And BamBam is, indeed, a sweet and beautiful child.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com