Posts by Hilary Stace
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Oops, one shouldn't type without one's glasses on!
Thank you everyone for your supportive comments. I thought this post might have sounded a bit like the moaning of the privileged. In NZ we have it so good etc. There is always someone less well off.
I know we are lucky. I have a friend with an autistic daughter with high needs for whom everything is a battle all the time. Even getting a night's sleep is a victory.
I think we have to be kinder to ourselves.
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Access: It’s just a bout of Chronic Sorrow, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Thanks Joe. That means a lot as we have had some 'robus't online conversations at times.
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Thank you all. It was hard to write and hard to admit to such feelings. But today the sun is shining and we are feeling resilient.
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There's a developing problem in providing services and support to people with fetal alcohol syndrome. Because of lack of knowledge by government and services most have been undiagnosed or wrongly diagnosed. These are the group, anecdotally, most at risk of having 'dysfunctional' family backgrounds, and of school exclusion. People with FAS don't respond to the standard behavioural interventions. Also hard to foster. Many interact with the criminal justice system from a young age. Somewhere along the line they get an assessment which indicatesintellectual disability. So they go from CYFs care to MoH DSS care. But they need specialist facilities. Instead they are being placed in inappropriate residential placements such as with high needs but gentle autistic adults who like routine and sameness.
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Hard News: This Anzac Day, in reply to tussock,
Thanks for that summary. The Armenian genocide was very briefly featured on TV3 News tonight with the Pope naming it as such. But item mentioned certain leaders won't use the G word including our PM. (I would not be surprised if he knew nothing of this history).
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MSD is reviewing children in aged care - but not younger adults
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Here's the Kardashians selfies and all, commemorating genocide in Armenia 100 years on.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/67698088/Why-is-Kim-Kardashian-in-Armenia
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I still don't really understand how NZers came to be invading Turkey.
Meanwhile Turkey was kicking out Armenians, and who has recently highlighted that centennial? Non other than Kim Kardashian, a descendant.
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Interesting how Peter Jackson and Weta workshops’ version of the War have become the new reality. The exhibition of the huge gory men in Te Papa has a constant lengthy queue. The parade yesterday in Wellington was bizarre. Peter Jackson’s collection of restored vehicles and actors dressed up as WW1 soldiers interspersed with the current defence forces. The crowd cheered them all particularly the actors.
One of my grudges about it all is that the Anzac stuff has taken most of the government’s history and culture funding for several years. We are in for four years of WW1 commemorations. Meanwhile where is the focus on the land wars or our unique identity events such as Parihaka?
One small positive with this attention to the past and remembering ancestors is that it will hopefully spin off into a thirst for finding out more about NZ’s history, including the uncomfortable bits.
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Alfie,
It is quite common with young children with autism. Some of those who are very tactile just love patting and stroking hair - to the point of obsession. But even autistic kids can be taught that it is not appropriate behaviour.