Thomas Wolfe said, “You can’t go home again.” And if you don’t know who that is, go read a book. Actually read a lot of books. Wolfe, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Heinlein, Burroughs, Twain and O. Henry… and those are just SOME of the Americans. Don’t forget to read Dickens, Doyle, Wells, Dumas, Sartre, oh hell I could keep going for a year… I swear, the ignorance today that passes for ‘sophisticated’… Never mind… Where was I? Oh, yeah… Wolfe… going home….you can’t get there from here…but it’s the old same place…..oh, the same old place, it’s out back, I’ll get the key… Sounds like a job for Nick Danger, Third Eye. What? You people don’t know THAT one either? *sigh* Barbarians. Old Wolfie wasn’t talking about going to your parent’s house, even if it is still the same one you grew up in. No, he’s talking about revisiting a part of your life that’s passed into history. You can try, but no ...
I don’t want a funeral. Why are so many autistics introverts, or hate crowds? Because we’re quick learners. Most of us, unless we live a very sheltered life, are expected to interact and play with other kids from a very young age. After age two, or so, this takes an ever darker turn for many of us. We still want to have friends. We still feel the need to be liked. We still want acceptance. Instead, what we find from the other kids is violence and being ostracized. Being around each other is where children learn the unspoken language, body posture, non-verbal clues, status, and for want of a better term, where you are in the pecking order. Autistic kids (at least speaking from my personal experience and the experience of my sons), not only don’t learn this automatically, we usually have no idea it’s going on at all. So we speak out of turn, we violated the status of the high ranking kids on the playground. The reac...
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