Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: An excellent evening in Newtown, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
Definitely useful.
Would you recommend this service to others? ;-)
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I'd just like to say that my relationship with my 16yo Aspie son has suddenly kicked up several gears -- partly through his maturity, and partly, I suspect, because we've been able to carefully work down his SSRI dosage by two thirds. I would also credit the time Ben Wilson spent with him last year as a significant influence.
We're now scheduling regular quality time together, when I talk about the news with him (including the Arie story) and he talks about games 'n' stuff. We just had a look through the new Unreal Development Kit, which is pretty cool. There's a mobile version of the UDK, so he'll potentially be able to make stuff that plays on iPad.
So yeah, I'm really happy.
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Hard News: An excellent evening in Newtown, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
I’m back in the shaky city and almost recovered from Russell’s concept of host responsibility (“there’s just time to go to the bar before we start up again”)
Was the advice:
• Useful
• Not usefulTick one.
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Oh, man. This has made my day. From a comment by the mother of a 28 year-old Aspie, on Brian Edwards' blog:
My son loves old school buses and NZ Broadcasting.A subject he knows a vast amount about. He listened to Michael Laws’ recent diatribe aginst Special Olympics which my son participates in with great pride. Jake’s comments “Michael Laws works for Radio Live.The studio he works in is too small and dark.He needs sunshine to make him happy. He is not alive yet he works for Live radio.He needs to join Special Olympics and get some exercise” My son is very literal but has real empathy in his own inimitable way.
Just great.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to ,
What?
I think the comment she was referring to was this one from George Darroch.
I do struggle to believe that she hadn't noticed that her vile sentiment was being discussed online for days before George's comment. As I have noted before, she doesn't seem to like me.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Matthew Poole,
How can reposting a ministerial communication, in full and unedited, be in any way grey? Is Collins that stupid that she’d sue someone for circulating an official email?
I would hope not. I did think a bit more about the interests of the recipient, but it was an official email and has been circulated, so, hey.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
So yeah – they’re watching.
And have been for years. In general, that's a good thing, although it was be helpful if ministers could refrain from appearing to attribute to me things that I did not actually write.
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I was referring to the one mentioned over the weekend as saying nasty things about the residents of PAS, not any official response. Not holding my breath that one will be eventuating without a complaint to the Ombudsmen.
Oh well. Given that it has already been subject to an OIA request, it specifically mentions me, and has apparently been widely circulated by email anyway, I might as well cut to the chase. It’s a response to a contact from John Greally of Asperger Syndrome NZ:
Dear Mr Greally,
Further to my telephone call to you, I was very disappointed to receive your email and the allegation contained in it.
I have always had a great deal of respect for the work that Asperger’s Syndrome New Zealand does for families who often suffer from
prejudice from the wider community.It was therefore personally distressing for me to see such allegation and I understand that you have repeated a statement published on
“Russell Brown’s blog”.Let me assure you that the allegation on Russell Brown’s blog is wrong. It is highly defamatory. It is the sort of allegation that is purposefully hurtful
and deeply unfair.I would be grateful if you did not further disseminate such an untrue statement.
Yours faithfully
Judith Collins
Good to know who the victim is.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to sophie lowery,
Hi Sophie. Sure. Just click the little envelope to the right of my name to email me.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
As Hilary notes, Grant Robertson walks the walk on autism issues. He's for real.
Unfortunately, he's been let down by his leader's peculiar talent for stumbling onto the wrong side of moral and political issues.