So, here I am, boredboredBORED, trying to find something to do...

[conuly]

And it was thus that I wandered over to autistics.org, to check out the newslinks. I shouldn't bother, they're all the same, always, and bland and boring as well, but I really *did* have nothing to do. Can't even really walk around, my leg and back still hurt after my fall on the ice today (more on that later).

And there's these two links in the news feed. One about how chelation is used to 'treat' autism. It's fairly biased towards it, even mangling a quote from a doctor *against* chelation, turning "not a treatment for autism" into "now a treatment for autism". And just below that is an article about two deaths of children due to chelation. One of them had lead poisoning, the other one was, of course, Abubakar Tariq Nadama.

*shrugs*

They just lined up so neatly, is all.

Comments

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Have you ever tried using Google's customized news service? I have mine set up to give me ALL of the articles with the words autism, autistic, or Asperger's in them... In my case it's in part because I post the results to autistic_abuse, but also to fill time when bored.

If you're bored enough, since I believe you are a paid user, you could always try reading your FOF list. :) Or, since it's remarkably huge, you're welcome to read my flist -- aside from the person I just recommended, there are probably others you haven't met that you might like. Or, if you want to take a real shortcut, ask your flist to recommend LJs to check out.

I want to be bored. I'm too stressed! :p

[conuly]

1. Oh, god. Don't even bring that up - I'd waste my whole life looking for stories, and they always irritate me. They're not that interesting, because they're all the same!

Better to just take them in teensy doses. I kill enough time reading the news as it is. (I really do, too, and I just don't have that much free time to kill, come to think of it.)

2. I do read my FOF list. Occasionally. It really is huge - I finish one page, and that page ends up being the next page as well :) Which is alternately annoying and amusing. And many of the entries are from communities I'm decidedly not interested in.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha... Well, luckily my custom news page is relatively quick to read, since it repeats articles a lot. Doubly so since I don't bother reading news there that isn't about autistics -- the rest of my news, I get from SFGate.com or my flist or both.

My flist itself is large enough now that if I'm away long enough, I also get the "second page is the same as the first" even on *it* sometimes. Not too often, luckily, especially since I have it set to 50 entries per page. I completely forgot about the FOF existing until yesterday, in fact... I really need to try it out!

I am now trying to think up other people you might like to read...with 200+ friends this should be easy. Hmm, here's a few:
bookgirlwa -- *great* friendly disability advocate, just now learning about how autistics have been treated and is completely outraged (her rants are on par with Wakasplat in terms of intelligence, writing skill, and power, which IS saying something)
ftemery -- way-post-op ftm, VERY funny (sometimes to the point of making even *me* laugh aloud), cool enough that I decided he's my godparent
rainbow_slinky -- adhd, chose to self-employ to fully accommodate her needs and dump the adhd meds after a work-lifetime of employers treating her like crap...and has discovered she is VERY talented when accommodated

Well, that should keep you busy for a little while, at least... ;)

[conuly]

Actually, I got completely distracted when my mom showed up with a Time Out NY Kids (it lists events for kids for two months, which is well worth it when you don't want to live your life cooped up in an apartment).

But when this gets tiresome, I'll be back to being mostly just reading online for a while, so that'll be useful. Thankies!

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Have you ever tried using Google's customized news service? I have mine set up to give me ALL of the articles with the words autism, autistic, or Asperger's in them... In my case it's in part because I post the results to autistic_abuse, but also to fill time when bored.

If you're bored enough, since I believe you are a paid user, you could always try reading your FOF list. :) Or, since it's remarkably huge, you're welcome to read my flist -- aside from the person I just recommended, there are probably others you haven't met that you might like. Or, if you want to take a real shortcut, ask your flist to recommend LJs to check out.

I want to be bored. I'm too stressed! :p

[conuly]

1. Oh, god. Don't even bring that up - I'd waste my whole life looking for stories, and they always irritate me. They're not that interesting, because they're all the same!

Better to just take them in teensy doses. I kill enough time reading the news as it is. (I really do, too, and I just don't have that much free time to kill, come to think of it.)

2. I do read my FOF list. Occasionally. It really is huge - I finish one page, and that page ends up being the next page as well :) Which is alternately annoying and amusing. And many of the entries are from communities I'm decidedly not interested in.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha... Well, luckily my custom news page is relatively quick to read, since it repeats articles a lot. Doubly so since I don't bother reading news there that isn't about autistics -- the rest of my news, I get from SFGate.com or my flist or both.

My flist itself is large enough now that if I'm away long enough, I also get the "second page is the same as the first" even on *it* sometimes. Not too often, luckily, especially since I have it set to 50 entries per page. I completely forgot about the FOF existing until yesterday, in fact... I really need to try it out!

I am now trying to think up other people you might like to read...with 200+ friends this should be easy. Hmm, here's a few:
bookgirlwa -- *great* friendly disability advocate, just now learning about how autistics have been treated and is completely outraged (her rants are on par with Wakasplat in terms of intelligence, writing skill, and power, which IS saying something)
ftemery -- way-post-op ftm, VERY funny (sometimes to the point of making even *me* laugh aloud), cool enough that I decided he's my godparent
rainbow_slinky -- adhd, chose to self-employ to fully accommodate her needs and dump the adhd meds after a work-lifetime of employers treating her like crap...and has discovered she is VERY talented when accommodated

Well, that should keep you busy for a little while, at least... ;)

[conuly]

Actually, I got completely distracted when my mom showed up with a Time Out NY Kids (it lists events for kids for two months, which is well worth it when you don't want to live your life cooped up in an apartment).

But when this gets tiresome, I'll be back to being mostly just reading online for a while, so that'll be useful. Thankies!