Comments on: By the way… https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/by-the-way/ Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:51:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ballastexistenz https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/by-the-way/#comment-16357 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:51:28 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=329#comment-16357 Ook — that’s exactly how I meant wise-ass. Possibly because I can be a bit of a wise-ass myself. :-P

]]> By: Evonne https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/by-the-way/#comment-16356 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:40:08 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=329#comment-16356 i.e. man quoted: “I have medication now and no longer hear the voices. I feel much better now.”

I presume he also feels much better now because he’s no longer chained to a tree.

]]> By: Evonne https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/by-the-way/#comment-16355 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:37:49 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=329#comment-16355 andreashettle: And, my goodness, what’s worse, those “mentally ill” are “untreated”!

]]> By: n. https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/by-the-way/#comment-16354 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:48:19 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=329#comment-16354 hey ivan!!
glad to see you!

]]> By: Ivan https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/by-the-way/#comment-16353 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:12:24 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=329#comment-16353 stopping by to say “Hi” as I don’t have aim or anything else here……decided to return home for break after that. Feel free to view this and delete, it’s nothing important…..

Ivan

]]> By: andreashettle https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/by-the-way/#comment-16352 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:18:03 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=329#comment-16352 Off topic for this thread, but I just came across a disturbing (though not surprising) article about people with mental illnesses in Aceh, Indonesia, some of whom where chained or locked up by their families. This was usually done in an attempt to protect them from hurting themselves.

There is a new wave of nurses who are trying to “help” them. But one concern is that at least one nurse quoted in this article seems to assume that a man was “barely aware” she was there, apparently because he wasn’t responding to her attempts to make conversation in the way she expected.

http://bodyandhealth.canada.com/channel_health_news_details.asp?news_id=11709&news_channel_id=11&channel_id=11&rot=11

]]> By: Ettina https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/by-the-way/#comment-16351 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:53:43 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=329#comment-16351 I meow back at my cats as well. One of them is very talkative (his grandmother appears to have had some siamese ancestry). Often he’ll come up to tell me he wants breakfast and I’ll meow back and say ‘what do you want?’ Sometimes I’ll get him to lead me to his food bowl.
What I don’t like is when he starts scratching papers on the floor to get my attention, and then requests food. I’m worried he’ll damage the papers. Because of my new kitten, it’s very hard to keep papers off the floor, as he likes to use them as springboards for jumping around the house.

]]> By: Ook https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/by-the-way/#comment-16350 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:57:17 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=329#comment-16350 @Jessica, 14: I took it in a positive sense – that the ‘wise-ass’ at CNN clicked with the story for some reason and selected a very apropos background. But then, I use wise-ass as a compliment, and I’ve discovered that that’s not all that common a usage.

]]> By: ballastexistenz https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/by-the-way/#comment-16349 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:41:53 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=329#comment-16349 I do mean wise-ass in the most affectionate sense possible. :-)

]]> By: Jessica https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/by-the-way/#comment-16348 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:06:18 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=329#comment-16348 haha..that’s hilarious. I’m glad you knew that song so you could notice it. As a non-autistic person I would have to say that I relate most to the “wierd creatures” in the song who are so caught up in their “reality” that they don’t even notice the smell of warm summer air. I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and I am often so caught up in my thoughts that I forget to experience things. While I was in an intensive treatment program part of my therapy was to just spend time touching plants and noticing their textures and smells. Normally I just see a bunch of flowers and label them “flowers” without taking the time to see all the individual flowers in that bunch and all of the little details that give that word meaning. I forget that they exist without a label. While my OCD behavior is certainly on a “pathological” level, I think in many ways it is just an exaggerated version of the way most “normal” people live. It’s sad. Your way of life may not be easy in the context of our society, but at least you don’t sacrifice experience for the sake of what other people tell you is “normal”.

I definately think radiohead didn’t write about the äliens in a derogatory way, but as more evolved creatures than the earthlings. Perhaps it wasn’t a wise-ass at CNN but rather a person who really understood the significance of your story and empathized with sentiment of feeling stuck in a world that didn’t understand the beauty of yours.

Thank you for sharing your story with the world.

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