Comments on: Safety hazards.

By: Ballastexistenz » Post Topic » Don’t just hand me things.

Ballastexistenz » Post Topic » Don’t just hand me things. — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:52:55 +0000

[…] post has to do with the same topic as my old post Safety Hazards. By the way, the Foradil is no longer a problem for two reasons. One, I had a routine set up so […]

By: David Harmon

David Harmon — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:30:42 +0000

I agree with you and prior commenters — making something look like a pill, when it’s not meant to be swallowed, is just stupid, and even NT’s are likely to get burnt by that.

I form “automatic behaviors” and habits easily too. (Being a computer geek, I call them “wetware macros”.) Occasionally, I’ve gotten errors embedded in those macros, like trying the wrong key for a particular lock before using the right one. (I do try to avoid this, but you probably know how that goes.)

By: How (not) to ask me questions. - Ballastexistenz

How (not) to ask me questions. - Ballastexistenz — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:49:21 +0000

[…] There are also times when there’s no comprehension possible, including no awareness that the words are even something that ought to concern me any more than white noise would. All of these different things are largely the same as the auditory version of the way I explained reading to be in my post titled Safety Hazards. […]

By: Deirdré Straughan

Deirdré Straughan — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:03:30 +0000

This is very poor design by the manufacturer of Foradil, which could cause anyone to make a mistake. Why the hell would they choose a pill shape, which EVERYONE is conditioned to swallow, for a medication which is meant to be inhaled? That’s just asking for trouble. If/when someone else makes that mistake and if they are harmed by it, the manufacturer will probably be sued.

There are a lot of things in this world that people try to use, and mess up, and end up feeling stupid, when it is poor design of the thing itself that causes the mis-use. Don’t blame yourself for others’ stupidity.

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:31:40 +0000

The first part of the post reminded me of an incident on a camping trip — someone had poured bacon grease into a drinking cup, saving it for some reason or another, and no less than 3 people just picked up the cup thinking to drink from it. Even when it was in a spot picked as “no one will pick it up to drink from it here“. It was tossed in the end, with a couple of people unhappy because they had wanted to use it for cooking later that trip.

(What I couldn’t figure out is why they couldn’t transfer it to some other sort of container after the first mistaken taste, but I wasn’t in an asking sort of mind that day, more just observe-and-be.)

By: funky88

funky88 — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:25:17 +0000

Did the doctors say anything about your pets contributing to the asthma? I know you mentioned before that your other doctor had suggested you remove them from your home. Hopefully these doctors were more understanding.

By: Danni

Danni — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:22:37 +0000

*Danni puts hand up to deleting parts of ALF before, too :D*

By: M

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:09:52 +0000

Thanks Andrea – now I know what it’s called I’ll certainly be looking up more about it.

By: n.

n. — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:25:57 +0000

Imlen, i have deleted bits of ALF at times, too, so... well i won't say you are in good company, but at least you are in some company!

By: andreashettle

andreashettle — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:06:53 +0000

This relates to the idea of “universal design” — i.e., design that is accessible for people with various types of disabilities but is meant for EVERYONE to use. (Like a curb cut that is also used by parents with baby carriages, or people with luggage carts.) Most of the time “universal design” seems to simply mean, accessible for people with mobility impairments with a few extras like Braille signs for blind people and strobe light alarms for deaf/Deaf and hard of hearing people. But it’s nice to hear that in at least one place they apparently took a look at what really makes an environment work for autistic people. And there are a few places, like at Gallaudet University, where they are starting to take a serious look at what makes an environment really work for Deaf people, such as more open spaces so that Deaf people can see each other and sign with each other over larger distances within the building, etc. But these kind of concepts (whether for autistics, or deaf/Deaf people etc) don’t seem to have really caught on yet in most universal design. I think the “universal design” movement is still emerging, and still has a lot to learn about people with disabilities other than mobility impairments.

M, since this is a topic that seems to interest you, you might want to google the term “universal design” and browse a bit.