Comments on: In the name of memory (a song) https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/in-the-name-of-memory-a-song/ Sat, 19 Oct 2013 05:11:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Amanda https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/in-the-name-of-memory-a-song/#comment-24713 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 05:11:05 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=199#comment-24713 In reply to Alyssa (Yes, That Too).

Yes I did write music, but I don’t like it that much.

]]> By: Alyssa (Yes, That Too) https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/in-the-name-of-memory-a-song/#comment-24679 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:47:56 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=199#comment-24679 Was there ever music written for this? And if not, assuming credit for lyrics was given, would you be open to someone else making the music for it? It’s something I’d love to see played.

]]> By: Kristen https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/in-the-name-of-memory-a-song/#comment-13388 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:25:13 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=199#comment-13388 This is really great, as are many of the things you write. I have a few questions of you that I would like to ask sometime. I have a 3 year old son who has ASD and he is in intensive treatment and has made great progress, but there are some things about him that I do not understand- and who not better to ask than someone who has experience with it all….somwtimes we think we have the right answers as to why behaviors start or what drives them- but I am just a parent- I had problems when I was young but not like this…Well anyway i think your site is excellent and you are a gifted writter and I certainly don’t want to lessen your site by my personal selfish questions so mail me sometime if you have time to answer some questions.

]]> By: Jesse the K https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/in-the-name-of-memory-a-song/#comment-13387 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:44:03 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=199#comment-13387 Lovely, thank you.

This theme appears in quite a few essays on the Shoah, the Nazi’s attempts at exterminating disabled people, Jews, Rom, et too many cetera.

A particularly wonderful memoir comes in two parts: If this is a man and The Truce by Primo Levi. Levi demonstrates that the virtuous and moral often succumb in a total institution.

]]> By: n. https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/in-the-name-of-memory-a-song/#comment-13386 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:11:11 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=199#comment-13386 this is really good but i will have to read it several times to get all the ideas out of it (not becos it’s unclear, in fact it isn’t. but poetry is like that).

]]> By: ballastexistenz https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/in-the-name-of-memory-a-song/#comment-13385 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:32:54 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=199#comment-13385 Yeah, and it’s about how egotistical the human tendency in general is to claim total credit for our successes where others have failed for reasons far more complex than that they weren’t as good as us.  And it’s also about the way that some people go through utter hell, and learn from the experience and stuff, and then think everyone should go through hell as a consequence, rather than trying to stop that kind of utter hell from happening to begin with.

]]> By: David N. Andrews MEd (Dec2006) https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/in-the-name-of-memory-a-song/#comment-13384 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:38:45 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=199#comment-13384 If I get this right, it’s about that false take on natural selection that seems to permeate everyday life, as far as the non-usually-handicapped see it.

I wish people would get the natural selection idea right.

Mostly they don’t.

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