Remember the link I posted about the handicapped spots?

I think this is the same person. Apparently, she "cares for an adult child with autism". By which they mean she cares for her adult autistic daughter. When said like that, the phrase makes sense, doesn't it?

Oh, and there's this article, which I'd explain, but I'm too tired. Just... um... read it? It's about the author of Send in the Idiots : Stories from the Other Side of Autism

Thought some people might be interested. Or not.

Somebody....

When we talk to or about Ana, sometimes we call her "somebody" as in "Gee, I think somebody needs a nap!" or "Does somebody need a diaper changed? Yeah, Ana, don't shake your head at me, I think you do."

Ana occasionally experiments with this form herself, usually getting it wrong, though I can't say why. "Somebody's syeeping!" when it's a person on the bus we don't know, like that.

And then on BSG, in That Episode I Don't Like, Roslin said that directly to Billy: "Somebody took his vitamins this morning!" (meaning him, of course). And that was right, but I don't know why.

It's so annoying. I don't get these things wrong, it's my own damn language, I certainly know how to speak it, how can I not know how to speak it? (This question is rhetorical, I don't want people telling me why I don't know how I know how to speak it, I know that, I just forget.)

It's still irritating. Somebody here isn't happy. (And that's all wrong, too - I'm not somebody like that, am I? It sounds wrong, but I can't prove it.) Stupid language.

NYTimes articles....

One on a US prison in Afghanistan.

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An editorial on the coming abortion crises. Joy.

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On the size of a family.

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On the end of storytellers in Morocco

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On the popularity of curling

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On test scores and television

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More articles

On sibling violence

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On an decidedly non-kosher, non-halal soup kitchen in Paris

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On NYC's private preschool insanity.

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