What are YOU doing for our 'silent' brothers and sisters?

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26 Apr 2010, 9:28 am

This is a great community with some great members, but what are you doing for our brothers and sisters who CAN'T speak or ADVOCATE for themselves :?:

This is as much a question for ME as anyone else................

What GOOD do WE do for OTHERS less fortunate :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:

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26 Apr 2010, 9:45 am

I donate to the Vancouver Children's Hospital, so that mute kids on the spectrum can get computers that they can speak with.

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26 Apr 2010, 9:53 am

Nothing. I just don't have any opportunity to do something for them although if I worked, I'd want to donate to some organisations. Anyway those who you are talking about, are as distant to me and having nothing to do with me as NT's, even more, I just don't identify with LFA people in any manner because the fact remains I don't have anything to do with them, this is the truth.

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26 Apr 2010, 10:07 am

nothing much at the moment, although when i get older i plan to find a job making AAC devices (i am a programmer)

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26 Apr 2010, 10:50 am

Applying for a doctoral position studying autistic language and lack of speech to hopefully be able to find information about the processes which are hindered in non-verbal autistic people.

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26 Apr 2010, 10:59 am

Gimme a hint - how am I supposed to find our silent bros & sis, and then help them?

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26 Apr 2010, 11:04 am

I am a staff member of the Autism Education Center in Florida http://www.autismeducationcenter.net. I fall somewhere between high functioning and low functioning , so I can relate to both.

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26 Apr 2010, 12:30 pm

Irulan wrote:

My IQ has tested in the top 2%, since I was 6, so MOST people (NT or otherwise) are distant to me.

As an Autistic, the people to whom I refer are VERY close to my heart, despite the fact that I 'work', in my own company and regularly make more in a month than most people make in a year.

But thanks for your comments and input, this is VERY helpful to me and answers much of what I was questioning.

Have a great day

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26 Apr 2010, 12:30 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:

I donate to the Vancouver Children's Hospital, so that mute kids on the spectrum can get computers that they can speak with.

YOU are an ANGEL :thumright:

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26 Apr 2010, 12:31 pm

Help yourself before you help others. As they say in the airplane video tapes, put the oxygen mask on yourself first so that you may save both yourself and your child.

That's my plan anyway...

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26 Apr 2010, 12:32 pm

LipstickKiller wrote:

Applying for a doctoral position studying autistic language and lack of speech to hopefully be able to find information about the processes which are hindered in non-verbal autistic people.

YOU are an ANGEL :thumright:

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26 Apr 2010, 12:32 pm

Irulan wrote:

If we are talking about people who cannot speak or advocate for themselves, how would you know you don't identify with them?

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26 Apr 2010, 12:45 pm

Blindspot149 wrote:

This is a great community with some great members, but what are you doing for our brothers and sisters who CAN'T speak or ADVOCATE for themselves :?:

This is as much a question for ME as anyone else................

What GOOD do WE do for OTHERS less fortunate :?:

What are they doing for me?

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26 Apr 2010, 12:46 pm

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Irulan wrote:

You 'sound' megalomaniacal ... and you have an actor playing a megalomaniacal psychopath as your avatar.

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26 Apr 2010, 12:48 pm

fiddlerpianist wrote:

Irulan wrote:

If we are talking about people who cannot speak or advocate for themselves, how would you know you don't identify with them?

You just answered your own question - my life is so different than their is - I can speak and take care of myself so how can I identify with those whose life is so different? It's as if I, being a short sighter and needing glasses identified with the blind.

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26 Apr 2010, 12:54 pm

Irulan wrote:

fiddlerpianist wrote:

Irulan wrote:

If we are talking about people who cannot speak or advocate for themselves, how would you know you don't identify with them?

Some who cannot speak can take of themselves just fine. And just because someone cannot speak doesn't mean they don't think. How do you know that they don't think the way you do or share your opinions about certain topics?

My point is there are probably aspects of their life that you can identify with... you just choose not to.

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