Posts by Kerry Weston
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And I'd just like to say "thanks" to Russell for speaking so openly about your own son and advocating for ASD and for giving me a few ideas/options. It's helped alot to know one isn't battling away alone.
Some other posters on PA also gave me some good tips earlier in the year on negotiating the education hierarchy and these were useful as well.
We had a youth suicide in my family about 20 yrs ago - I'd eat razorblades to make sure it didn't happen again. Some good people are propping me up so I can hold the boy up - it's all little steps that are agonisingly slow, but compared to a couple of years ago, it is progress indeed.
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What does the high-functioning person have to do to get an "official" label of Aspergers or autism?
I suspect - pay through the nose for an excellent private psychologist. One you've already checked out for 'a good fit' - their websites can be useful. The public mental health system only funds the "worst" cases, so unless you're very plainly psychotic, bipolar, schizophrenic, you won't get a look in.
From experience, trying to source help for a (now) 15 year old, I know it is extremely difficult. You might consider yourself an excellent parent, but as far as the authorities are concerned, a 'problem' child or teen is the result of bad parenting. Of course this is a cover for the fact there is not enough funding. You will be blamed and shamed. The best you're likely to get is a script for prozac. We at last got some real help from a clinical psychologist, but over three years out of the education system is a huge loss. It's using up a great deal of my time & energy to move forward, though I'm pleased to say he is happier and native wit & intelligence will go a long way (I hope).
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That's an easy question that I'll attempt to answer in 8,000 words or less.
Thank you for that, Giovanni. I was born here, but my grandparents weren't, so there's not much depth to my family history here. I'm quite conscious of not feeling solidly grounded here - which probably has alot to do with why I'm studying history, esp. nz history. And why i wonder if it feels different to spring from an old culture (and now be transplanted).
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(My guess: the hectoring dolphin).
Ha! She was once a sultry feminist in the 70s.
Giovanni, I wonder how long you've been in nz? And whether you find it unsettled, tenuous - like a young tree with shallow roots, compared to Italy? Do you think the quality of collective memory in Italy,being such an historic, much layered, long-settled place, is quite different to here - where amongst pakeha, anyway, there's only a few generations' worth of memory?
I read your blog about memory & technology - tis fascinating stuff. Are you conscious of fictionalising your memories of Italy - even though technology enables you to keep in touch?
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speaking of F's
a united future party:
Putrid Farty Tune, aue!
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Anal arty point.
Purrfect!
How about The Greens:
Gents here
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But I digress - call me a superficial queen, but I like angst you can dance (badly) to.
I haven't seen half the cinema I'd like for years - comes of exiling oneself to the sticks - and when I've got a spare couple of weeks I'd like to watch the new Ward one, plus Vigil & River Queen. He's such a painter - not really a storyteller. Maybe the whole cinema of unease thing is something to react against now - i think there's plenty of humour & vivacity to be found in our history, whole 'other' ways to represent it that haven't been much tapped.
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http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbell-winston-peters-rebuttal-of-glenn/
Link to Gordon Campbell's summary of Peters' rebuttal viz Glenn.
I haven't heard radio or read the Herald front page today, so hadn't caught up with whether Winnie still rides.The whole thing seems like a circus sideshow to me, i keep wondering wtf else is going on.
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OK, so are they going to end up on You Tube or something, because I find the originals tedious. Sorry, but they're like the aural equivalent of Vigil.
OK, biting... how are they the aural equiv. of Vigil? You don't care for the sleeting, grey looonely skyscape and brooding hills motif of Mr Ward?
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Actually i was a bit naughty as a 'parent help' taking kids on school trips .... we had a home-mix cd of Mr Hanky's Xmas Poo & some Homer moments - stuff nine yr olds think is hilarious- and we'd have a carload of kids singing raucously all the way there & all the way back. Fuelled up on a big bag of lollies. Thrilled them to bits.
I'm surprised that my now-teenage sons have quite sophisticated responses to subtle or ironic humour, even though they prefer rubbish starring Adam Sandler, Jack Black and that other turkey Owen Wilson.
I reckon kids harden up a bit around 9-10 - I was alot more careful before that age to control what they saw (& no internet). i can't stand to watch stuff like "Alien" or other human-consuming horrors, i do think powerful images can stick in yr subconscious. And I'd rather have better quality 'murk' to draw on, creatively speaking.