Comments on: My Autistic Pride Day post https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/06/18/my-autistic-pride-day-post/ Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:39:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: various^Amorpha https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/06/18/my-autistic-pride-day-post/#comment-11858 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:39:41 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=129#comment-11858 By apparent total coincidence, today was also the first day that we used a speech-generating device to talk to a professional. (It was to our former disability counselor at the university we used to attend and had to drop out of, to ask for our records, and it was a text-to-speech program on our new laptop, but she said it was a lot more coherent than many of the speech generators she had seen.)

So… I guess that, though we weren’t even thinking about it at the time and couldn’t have gone to see her on any other day besides today, it was a perfect date.

]]> By: ATM https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/06/18/my-autistic-pride-day-post/#comment-11857 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:43:47 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=129#comment-11857 Happy Autistic Pride Day to all! (6-18) How interesting that it falls on 6-18, 1.618 being roughly equivalent to the Golden Mean! In any case, a happy Summer to all!

]]> By: Alyson Bradley https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/06/18/my-autistic-pride-day-post/#comment-11856 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:34:18 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=129#comment-11856 18 June 2008, my very first year from finding out I am on the autism spectrum, while I also would love to celebrate – tell the world, realization hits… as life in my new minority group was never how I thought it would be, I attempt against all odds often alone to help let others into my new world, I feel like I have not even got my toes wet by the sea, let alone battled with the tidy wave… so I will join you, find a quite space and find my our joy in the fact that the autism world has welcome me, I now have an extended family, but lost many others on the way… Aspergers Parallel Planet

]]> By: Ivan https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/06/18/my-autistic-pride-day-post/#comment-11855 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:02:14 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=129#comment-11855 darn, I missed that too………..

I’ll look for it………..all things considered right?

Ivan

]]> By: Uly https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/06/18/my-autistic-pride-day-post/#comment-11854 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:46:42 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=129#comment-11854 Not sure how missed that – I think I may skim more than I realize.

And thanks, NM. I’ll check on their site in a week or so, then.

]]> By: Not Mercury https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/06/18/my-autistic-pride-day-post/#comment-11853 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:08:33 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=129#comment-11853 I’m sure it will be available for download as an MP3 or something afte rit has aired. There are some pretty good shows in the NPR archive and I like listening in my time instead of real time.

I look forward to hearing it even if I miss the original broadcat but please let us know when you hear anything more about the broadcast date.

]]> By: ballastexistenz https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/06/18/my-autistic-pride-day-post/#comment-11852 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:19:52 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=129#comment-11852 Uly — from the post: “They keep moving the projected time for airing around, but right now, it’s something like “Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday of this week, on All Things Considered, or else next week sometime, but we don’t really know yet so this is very tentative.” They’d had two separate tentative dates on which they’d been going to put it on Morning Edition, so I can vouch for the tentative part. Right now they’re trying for All Things Considered.”

That’s all I know.

]]> By: Uly https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/06/18/my-autistic-pride-day-post/#comment-11851 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:02:43 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=129#comment-11851 Wow. Any idea when it’ll be aired?

]]> By: Ms Clark https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/06/18/my-autistic-pride-day-post/#comment-11850 Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:52:34 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=129#comment-11850 Q: Ms. Ballastexistenz, I understand that you live in your own little world. Do you know all the other autistics there? Are you all good friends? Do you go on vacations together? Do you prefer low or high functioning, with or without sauce?

A: Aaaaaagh!

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I hope it turns out wonderfully and that you end up with your own syndicated talk show …. no, you have a blog, that’s better.

]]> By: Sharon Faulk https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/06/18/my-autistic-pride-day-post/#comment-11849 Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:23:57 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=129#comment-11849 I can’t wait to hear it as well. Congratulations!

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