Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Softly, softly, in reply to bob daktari,
I doubt Putin is doing anything but playing for time, which is very on his side...
Take a look at the graphs in the Vox article. He has real problems.
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Hard News: Softly, softly, in reply to Paul Campbell,
so one of my neighbours is a recent immigrant from the Ukraine – his take on what’s happening there is largely “a pox on all their houses” …. he doesn’t see any good actors in the current conflict and says that what we see in the media is pretty inaccurate
There are certainly some bad actors in the Ukranian government, but to claim as Pilger does that they're all neo-Nazis is palpably untrue. Letting elections take place seems appropriate.
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Sorry about all this, folks. I hope this hasn't precluded a good discussion of Hilary's excellent post. BDB won't be back. Please do carry on.
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I think I'm done with being reasonable.
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Access: Autism, ABA and being a bad mother, in reply to Sacha,
Cheers to all the good listeners and speakers who have enriched my life. My stepdad was one of the best.
I'm glad your important day went well, Sacha. These things matter.
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Access: Autism, ABA and being a bad mother, in reply to BDB Inc,
If I disagree with your opinion I cannot be on this blog?
Do I understand you correctly?People disagree with me all the time. But the reader community here is pretty special and it works in part because I'm here most of the time, moderating as I feel is necessary.
I saw what Miche said as a gentle, not-undeserved ribbing and I explained my reasoning in what I had said to debunk. You chose to respond with patronising snark directed at me ("honey", "sweetie"). I do need you be a bit less querulous than you've been in various threads. And I need you respect my call. It's my place.
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Access: Autism, ABA and being a bad mother, in reply to debunk,
I didn’t think that I “disagreed” with anything ..merely pointed out that some of these behaviour descriptions have changed over the years ..eg autism, ADHD, dementia ..nothing more to say here about it though. All the best ..
I felt you were being insensitive in doubting the diagnosis of a child you have never met. Autism parents encounter this kind of thing quite a lot and it doesn’t help. You repeatedly used the word autistic in quotation marks as if it wasn’t a real thing.
I asked you to tread carefully, I used the “please” – and you responded by having a hissy fit, playing the martyr and then offering an irrelevant link in a way which implied, again, that autism isn’t a real thing. Suggesting that Temple Grandin doesn’t know herself is silly. I tried to be nice about this and you played the wounded party and sneered about people being sensitive.
But to go back to your very first comment:
Before the birth of the label “autistic” in the 1980s developmental psychology courses at university referred to such children as “withdrawn” or as “slow developers” – certainly less judgemental and less “clinical” decriptions for such a multivariate personality state..same with the all encompassing term “dementia” which can have 20 or more physiological and/or environmental causes?
Autism isn’t some trendy modern diagnosis and the idea that we should revert to diagnoses of “withdrawn” or as “slow developers” – which, let’s face it, aren’t far off “retarded” – is not helpful. No one here thinks autistm is a bad or judgemental word. It’s something we can work with, something which describes a very wide range of symptoms, by no means all of them negative.
You’re fond of touting your credentials on this site, but you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about in this instance. Please, read the latest edition of the DSM and what it says about autism spectrum disorders.
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Access: Autism, ABA and being a bad mother, in reply to BDB Inc,
Sorry Mr Russell Brown, I did not enjoy Miche Campbell disrespecting debunk . But you now say this way of addressing other members is now seen by yourself as not acceptable or funny.
I’m going to explain this one more time. What debunk did – telling a parent that their child, who s/he has never met, isn’t autistic and is just a normal little boy – is insensitive and it’s something that autism parents have to put up with a lot. It really does not help when someone says these things.
Mark’s response was gracious and debunk’s was silly, self-absorbed and pompous. In the circumstances, Miche’s comment was just some gentle humour, as far as I’m concerned.
If you disagree, you’re welcome to go elsewhere, but I won’t tolerate you repeatedly dragging the conversation back to it when I’ve asked you not to.
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Access: Autism, ABA and being a bad mother, in reply to BDB Inc,
Honey it wasn’t funny.
This is turning into a threadjack and I don’t like the way you’re addressing me. I’m asking you to move on from the subject now.