As a parent of an “autistic” kid ( aspergers ), I never let the teachers treat him any different.
The only reason he has a “diagnosis” is that the teachers kept insisting something must be wrong because he didn’t do what they wanted. I don’t believe in treating him different, and giving him “special” education requirements. I have always told them no, and he has excelled in classes related to reading, and history. Granted he sucks at math, but hey, it is what it is. This medical/education treatment of them as “special” is the reason for so many of them NOT succeeding, IMHO.. The real world isn’t nice, and handicapping them early by making them believe they can’t do it is wrong. BTW, he wants to be an English teacher… lol Richard From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2019 5:11 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Greta When I was a kid, many kids were “nerdy”, “shy”, or “introverted”. Now they would be “autistic” or “on the autism spectrum” or have “ASD”. As anything with “spectrum” in the name, it can vary from minor to severe. I think Gino is right, mental illness is incorrect terminology. Some employers with boring or repetitive jobs that nonetheless must be done correctly with attention to detail have found that such people are ideal employees. Like watchmakers that found out they didn’t want people with 20/20 vison, they wanted nearsighted people. The opposite situation is probably all the kids that are diagnosed with ADHD because teachers don’t want to deal with a kid who won’t sit quietly and shut up, and the helicopter parents take them to the doctor and put them on Ritalin. Because big Pharma has a solution for every problem. And class size is too big for teachers to deal with non conforming kids, and who wants to try old fashioned solutions like sending the kids out for recess to burn off energy. Strange stuff, like have you noticed how many successful, creative, or big picture people are dyslexic? From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Gino A. Villarini Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:43 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Greta Mental illness? Gino Villarini Founder/President @gvillarini t: 787.273.4143 Ext. 204 m: [aeronet-logo]<http://www.aeronetpr.com/> [inc500]<https://www.inc.com/profile/aeronet> [fb-logo]<https://www.facebook.com/aeronetpr/> [insta-logo]<https://www.instagram.com/aeronetpr/?hl=en> [in-logo]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/aeronet-broadband-corp> [tw-logo]<https://twitter.com/AeroNetPR?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor> [yt-logo]<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr2Q9WBrAYVm3Fn970Jd6VA> www.aeronetpr.com<http://www.aeronetpr.com> | Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, PR 00968 From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> on behalf of Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com<mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com<mailto:af@af.afmug.com>> Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 6:26 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com<mailto:af@af.afmug.com>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Greta I feel bad for her, autistic, child tool of adults agenda, trained to use a mental illness to her advantage while denying it is a mental illness. Id like to smack the adults puppeting her around and let her finish being a kid before she gets jaded by her politics On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 11:51 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote: Has the face of many scary school teachers. Makes me flinch... From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2019 10:48 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Greta She scares you....lol On Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 10:43 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote: Thunberg -----Original Message----- From: Robert Andrews Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2019 10:34 AM To: af@af.afmug.com<mailto:af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Greta Greta? On 11/14/2019 09:15 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > Every time Greta goes somewhere, I am going to calculate the distance, > multiply it by 2691 BTU per mile. > Divide that by 139000 and we have gallons of diesel. > > So say she is boating from somewhere in South America to Spain. > Perhaps 3000 miles of airline flight she avoided. > 3000*2691/139000=58 gallons. > > So I will get a kick starter campaign to donate 58 gallons of fuel to > light the Greta memorial torch so everyone can see when she is on the > move. > > We have to combat climate change!!! > -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ________________________________ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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