Permanently banned from survival forums
Well, it seems that nobody in the survival community wants me around. Due to ONE post on the survival forum I used to be on, I have been permanently banned. That makes the THIRD survival forum to ban me permanently. Yes, I made a mistake, and insulted Christians, but one mod apparently thinks that I have a history of "childish, disruptive behavior" and has kicked me off permanently. So, this is my announcement that I'm done with survivalism. I may be taking this blog down too, since the original reason I put it up was for it to go viral and spin off some income. Only Google blocked my application for ads-permanently-and I have gotten a total of 600 odd views over two years. So, I'm done blogging, and done with survivalism. I may check the survival forum for news every so often, since I still can read it, but I can't post.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Thursday, July 23, 2015
The foreshocks before the financial Big One: what to look for
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do when they come for you? -Theme From COPS (by Inner Circle)
OK, so we all know that America's debt is unsustainable, and will cause one fuck of a debt collapse eventually. From reading about Argentina in 2001 and Greece in 2015, here are a few things to watch for so that you get out in time.
1) There is a long, years long, recession, one they can't cook the books to hide. When construction stops and businesses start firing people en masse, watch out.
2) This recession leads to big problems on Wall Street. Banks and brokers start failing. When this happens you need to move your money out of danger, although where to in the event that America goes down is a valid question.
3) The government starts in with the happy talk while everything is going to shit. When they start telling you your savings is safe, you may only have a few days to finish stocking up on food and water.
4) Only then do they establish the corralito, nationalizing all money in the banks (generally called a "bail in") leaving the country destitute. In America's case, this probably will apply to the entire PLANET, taking every red cent that's not under your mattress (although they may have been keeping track of withdrawals and gold/silver purchases, in which case it's time to lock and load) and using that money to make good the bad debts. By then it's too late. People in Greece knew that eventually the corralito would arrive, as much as FIVE YEARS AGO! Did they do anything, of course not.
So, that's what to look out for. People in Greece have been keeping Ferfal ( themodernsurvivalist.com ) updated. No cash, no banks, no food in the stores. The economy simply up and died. What will YOU do when it's your turn?
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do when they come for you? -Theme From COPS (by Inner Circle)
OK, so we all know that America's debt is unsustainable, and will cause one fuck of a debt collapse eventually. From reading about Argentina in 2001 and Greece in 2015, here are a few things to watch for so that you get out in time.
1) There is a long, years long, recession, one they can't cook the books to hide. When construction stops and businesses start firing people en masse, watch out.
2) This recession leads to big problems on Wall Street. Banks and brokers start failing. When this happens you need to move your money out of danger, although where to in the event that America goes down is a valid question.
3) The government starts in with the happy talk while everything is going to shit. When they start telling you your savings is safe, you may only have a few days to finish stocking up on food and water.
4) Only then do they establish the corralito, nationalizing all money in the banks (generally called a "bail in") leaving the country destitute. In America's case, this probably will apply to the entire PLANET, taking every red cent that's not under your mattress (although they may have been keeping track of withdrawals and gold/silver purchases, in which case it's time to lock and load) and using that money to make good the bad debts. By then it's too late. People in Greece knew that eventually the corralito would arrive, as much as FIVE YEARS AGO! Did they do anything, of course not.
So, that's what to look out for. People in Greece have been keeping Ferfal ( themodernsurvivalist.com ) updated. No cash, no banks, no food in the stores. The economy simply up and died. What will YOU do when it's your turn?
Back in the saddle again...
Well, I've been allowed back on the survival forum I was thrown off of four months ago. Looking over my blog, it seems that I mainly blog about survivalism anyway. For some weird reason, most of them seemed happy to have me back. So, I guess I can blog about survival topics again.
Well, I've been allowed back on the survival forum I was thrown off of four months ago. Looking over my blog, it seems that I mainly blog about survivalism anyway. For some weird reason, most of them seemed happy to have me back. So, I guess I can blog about survival topics again.
Here we go again...neurodiversity and vaccines-and suicide
I recently asked people on a survival forum (yes, I've been allowed back, more on that in another post) about what really is so bad about being neurologically different, in light of a Washington Post article about the neurodiversity acceptance movement. Immediately people started debating the whole vaccine thing again, I guess because the idea of neurodivergent people who do not want to be "cured" is something they can't bear to face.
Also, I learned a lot about mothers of ASD kids who regularly contemplate suicide, mainly because they have no support and no respite from what apparently are more severe cases of ASD than mine. The kid has autism, so hubby walks out and finds another model to tinker with, and all your "friends" suddenly decide that they never really liked you anyway, and bail. You can't work, so you go on welfare (once AFDC, now TANF, and facing yet another overhaul in Congress right now) and now EVERYBODY hates you. So, you decide to cash out early, and to take your kid with you.
WAIT! You need to know that you and your ASD kid have value, despite what other people think. As a radical conservative, I do hate people who get SSI for "anxiety" so they can sell drugs/women, chop up stolen cars, and run psychic scams (yes, there really was a case ages ago in Redding where a woman glommed onto SSI as a cover for running a cursed money scam) with impunity. And then there's the people who suffer for all that shit. People who really need assistance.
It seems that all the jobs have been exported, leaving Americans to sell cheap hamburgers to each other for money. As long as there are no jobs, the country will have to figure out ways to feed people. The English solution, where welfare is simply ended leaving millions to starve in the streets, is probably not viable in a country where the number of guns equals the number of people. So, the government will have to feed people. FDR's solution, which was moving city workers to the country so at least they could feed themselves, seems to not be on the table, probably because TPTB don't like the idea of people being independent.
So, what are families of ASD people to do? Living in rundown suburbs, unable to grow their own food which would at least give the kid (and mom) a reason to get up in the morning, and everybody around you deals drugs to survive. In that case, victimhood seems really appealing, especially when everybody else does it too. What's the answer? I don't know, except eventually TPTB are gonna try gas chambers again, what with 7 billion people on earth and 100 million added every year.
I recently asked people on a survival forum (yes, I've been allowed back, more on that in another post) about what really is so bad about being neurologically different, in light of a Washington Post article about the neurodiversity acceptance movement. Immediately people started debating the whole vaccine thing again, I guess because the idea of neurodivergent people who do not want to be "cured" is something they can't bear to face.
Also, I learned a lot about mothers of ASD kids who regularly contemplate suicide, mainly because they have no support and no respite from what apparently are more severe cases of ASD than mine. The kid has autism, so hubby walks out and finds another model to tinker with, and all your "friends" suddenly decide that they never really liked you anyway, and bail. You can't work, so you go on welfare (once AFDC, now TANF, and facing yet another overhaul in Congress right now) and now EVERYBODY hates you. So, you decide to cash out early, and to take your kid with you.
WAIT! You need to know that you and your ASD kid have value, despite what other people think. As a radical conservative, I do hate people who get SSI for "anxiety" so they can sell drugs/women, chop up stolen cars, and run psychic scams (yes, there really was a case ages ago in Redding where a woman glommed onto SSI as a cover for running a cursed money scam) with impunity. And then there's the people who suffer for all that shit. People who really need assistance.
It seems that all the jobs have been exported, leaving Americans to sell cheap hamburgers to each other for money. As long as there are no jobs, the country will have to figure out ways to feed people. The English solution, where welfare is simply ended leaving millions to starve in the streets, is probably not viable in a country where the number of guns equals the number of people. So, the government will have to feed people. FDR's solution, which was moving city workers to the country so at least they could feed themselves, seems to not be on the table, probably because TPTB don't like the idea of people being independent.
So, what are families of ASD people to do? Living in rundown suburbs, unable to grow their own food which would at least give the kid (and mom) a reason to get up in the morning, and everybody around you deals drugs to survive. In that case, victimhood seems really appealing, especially when everybody else does it too. What's the answer? I don't know, except eventually TPTB are gonna try gas chambers again, what with 7 billion people on earth and 100 million added every year.
Monday, July 6, 2015
The Dreaded Ass Burger: Encyclopedia Dramatica and DSM Confusion
I suppose everybody in the autism community knows of this addition to the list of Web Pages That Will Live In Infamy:
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Asperger%27s_Syndrome
Yep, it's ED's Ass Burger page. First off, autism and sociopathy are rarely lumped together except by people who either want to satirize (what, if anything, is still unclear) or are truly ignorant of mental illness. I have a cousin who made the mistake of marrying a sociopath, and the first thing that such a victim will say is that a sociopath is VERY charming-until he reels you in, then it's gutting and filleting time, and you're the fish. Aspies, meanwhile, couldn't charm a paper bag, as is evident from perusing Wrong Planet.
Also, the "aspies" listed on ED probably don't have autism at all, but rather some form of weird personality disorder. A common theme is that they live almost exclusively on the internet, posting bad artwork, worse slash, and generally looking to justify a non-existent "creative talent" by putting it on Deviantart or Tumblr so as to gain followers to feed their narcissism. Most REAL aspies avoid Tumblr as if it had deadly cooties (which it does in a sense). While it seems that many aspies had narcissistic parents, they themselves don't seem to be very narcissistic.
The main reason that an aspie will loiter in the net is because going out into public inevitably triggers a huge meltdown due to sensory overload. The main reason that an ED "aspie" stays online is because he/she wants to share their "talent" with planet earth. It helps if they can find people dumber than themselves to kiss their rears and who actually like bad art, or are too dumb to know how bad it is. In fact, ED aspies seem to have art/writing as the main reason they don't kill themselves. This completely ignores tech-oriented aspies, who wouldn't touch deviantart with a 39 1/2 foot pole. But, if one is trying to make a point about "lazy aspies", one will exclude programmers pulling in a couple hundred grand a year.
Sometimes I wonder what narcissistic losers did before the legalization of the public internet in 1993. I'm old enough to remember that world, and I know that books were cheaper relative to income, and there were places called "bookstores" where people browsed books and bought them, walking out with a plastic bag (sporting reinforced handles) full of cool shit to read. There were compact discs, sold in places called record stores, where people browsed music. Music was played on contraptions called radios, and my generation recorded songs off them onto "cassette tapes". I remember the flyers pasted to light poles in downtowns: "Three Abominations Before GOD: 1) Abortion 2) Homosexuality 3) Bill Clinton", "Still Life With Rent Due #6" (this consisted of a stack of papers with an apple on top), "Muni Riders Before Resistance Begins" (cows on a bus, this one was protesting some insignificant issue with Muni, San Francisco's famously incompetent transit system).
Back then, the only way the public could be heard was to write letters to newspapers. It wasn't like today where any weirdo can spew trash endlessly to cyberspace where it will last longer than a plastic bag in the ocean or until the Iranians set off an EMP bomb, whichever comes first. There are no gatekeepers like in the old days. So, what else is there to do in a world where you can earn more being disabled than by asking if the customer wants to supersize that order?
I suppose everybody in the autism community knows of this addition to the list of Web Pages That Will Live In Infamy:
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Asperger%27s_Syndrome
Yep, it's ED's Ass Burger page. First off, autism and sociopathy are rarely lumped together except by people who either want to satirize (what, if anything, is still unclear) or are truly ignorant of mental illness. I have a cousin who made the mistake of marrying a sociopath, and the first thing that such a victim will say is that a sociopath is VERY charming-until he reels you in, then it's gutting and filleting time, and you're the fish. Aspies, meanwhile, couldn't charm a paper bag, as is evident from perusing Wrong Planet.
Also, the "aspies" listed on ED probably don't have autism at all, but rather some form of weird personality disorder. A common theme is that they live almost exclusively on the internet, posting bad artwork, worse slash, and generally looking to justify a non-existent "creative talent" by putting it on Deviantart or Tumblr so as to gain followers to feed their narcissism. Most REAL aspies avoid Tumblr as if it had deadly cooties (which it does in a sense). While it seems that many aspies had narcissistic parents, they themselves don't seem to be very narcissistic.
The main reason that an aspie will loiter in the net is because going out into public inevitably triggers a huge meltdown due to sensory overload. The main reason that an ED "aspie" stays online is because he/she wants to share their "talent" with planet earth. It helps if they can find people dumber than themselves to kiss their rears and who actually like bad art, or are too dumb to know how bad it is. In fact, ED aspies seem to have art/writing as the main reason they don't kill themselves. This completely ignores tech-oriented aspies, who wouldn't touch deviantart with a 39 1/2 foot pole. But, if one is trying to make a point about "lazy aspies", one will exclude programmers pulling in a couple hundred grand a year.
Sometimes I wonder what narcissistic losers did before the legalization of the public internet in 1993. I'm old enough to remember that world, and I know that books were cheaper relative to income, and there were places called "bookstores" where people browsed books and bought them, walking out with a plastic bag (sporting reinforced handles) full of cool shit to read. There were compact discs, sold in places called record stores, where people browsed music. Music was played on contraptions called radios, and my generation recorded songs off them onto "cassette tapes". I remember the flyers pasted to light poles in downtowns: "Three Abominations Before GOD: 1) Abortion 2) Homosexuality 3) Bill Clinton", "Still Life With Rent Due #6" (this consisted of a stack of papers with an apple on top), "Muni Riders Before Resistance Begins" (cows on a bus, this one was protesting some insignificant issue with Muni, San Francisco's famously incompetent transit system).
Back then, the only way the public could be heard was to write letters to newspapers. It wasn't like today where any weirdo can spew trash endlessly to cyberspace where it will last longer than a plastic bag in the ocean or until the Iranians set off an EMP bomb, whichever comes first. There are no gatekeepers like in the old days. So, what else is there to do in a world where you can earn more being disabled than by asking if the customer wants to supersize that order?
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Live tweeting your son's hours-long meltdown
Somebody on another autism blog posted this article:
http://www.ptbocanada.com/journal/2015/3/7/peterborough-couple-live-tweet-a-severe-meltdown-from-their-autistic-child
The blog that linked to this was pretty angry over the parents' actions, and it's easy to see why. Autistic kids nowadays are apt to be controlled with brute force and/or sensory deprivations like "time out rooms". When those fail, the caregivers are at a loss. The only thing left is to lock themselves in a bedroom while the kid demolishes the house. The parents feel vindicated by the support they get online. Then, apparently, comes the GoFundMe accounts to fix the damage to the house. Finally, the parent starts making plans to kill in order to escape a trap that wouldn't exist if only the parents had taught their kid how to cope with meltdowns as a toddler.
Clearly, more research is needed to figure out how to control kids besides sitting on them until they are exhausted or locking them in the hall closet. But the main objection seems to be that parents are making private moments public. How will their kid feel at age 40 with all this stuff about how horrible they are forever online? How will autistics react to being called monsters by everyday people who only know of autism from "warrior mothers" who view autism and autistics as an enemy army to be defeated?
Somebody on another autism blog posted this article:
http://www.ptbocanada.com/journal/2015/3/7/peterborough-couple-live-tweet-a-severe-meltdown-from-their-autistic-child
The blog that linked to this was pretty angry over the parents' actions, and it's easy to see why. Autistic kids nowadays are apt to be controlled with brute force and/or sensory deprivations like "time out rooms". When those fail, the caregivers are at a loss. The only thing left is to lock themselves in a bedroom while the kid demolishes the house. The parents feel vindicated by the support they get online. Then, apparently, comes the GoFundMe accounts to fix the damage to the house. Finally, the parent starts making plans to kill in order to escape a trap that wouldn't exist if only the parents had taught their kid how to cope with meltdowns as a toddler.
Clearly, more research is needed to figure out how to control kids besides sitting on them until they are exhausted or locking them in the hall closet. But the main objection seems to be that parents are making private moments public. How will their kid feel at age 40 with all this stuff about how horrible they are forever online? How will autistics react to being called monsters by everyday people who only know of autism from "warrior mothers" who view autism and autistics as an enemy army to be defeated?
A few issues and a different focus...
I haven't written in six months, maybe more. During that time, I got kicked off the net's biggest survival forum, actually more like harassed until I had to leave, simply because one poster thought I was "whining", and suddenly everybody rallied around him and started bashing me. The guy who started it has followed me from forum to forum since around 2009 or 2010, simply to bash me. He even convinced one forum owner to make him a mod simply so he could ban me. When I started posting on survival forums, I was in a really bad place personally, and did stuff I regret and angered people. But to hold a grudge like that for six years is unreasonable imo.
So, this blog will no longer have a survival component. I am a far inferior blogger on survival topics to top dogs like Fernando Aguirre, whose themodernsurvivalist.com blog should be in everybody's bookmarks, and his books in every bookcase. Instead, I will focus primarily on autism and maybe throw in a little politics.
As you may be aware, parents of autistic kids are getting attention for themselves by doing things like live tweeting meltdowns and posting videos of their kid's meltdowns. Specifically, a couple in Canada live tweeted a meltdown that went for HOURS. Did they try helping their son? Nope, they were locked in their bedroom tweeting how awful their son is. I will address this specific case in another post.
I haven't written in six months, maybe more. During that time, I got kicked off the net's biggest survival forum, actually more like harassed until I had to leave, simply because one poster thought I was "whining", and suddenly everybody rallied around him and started bashing me. The guy who started it has followed me from forum to forum since around 2009 or 2010, simply to bash me. He even convinced one forum owner to make him a mod simply so he could ban me. When I started posting on survival forums, I was in a really bad place personally, and did stuff I regret and angered people. But to hold a grudge like that for six years is unreasonable imo.
So, this blog will no longer have a survival component. I am a far inferior blogger on survival topics to top dogs like Fernando Aguirre, whose themodernsurvivalist.com blog should be in everybody's bookmarks, and his books in every bookcase. Instead, I will focus primarily on autism and maybe throw in a little politics.
As you may be aware, parents of autistic kids are getting attention for themselves by doing things like live tweeting meltdowns and posting videos of their kid's meltdowns. Specifically, a couple in Canada live tweeted a meltdown that went for HOURS. Did they try helping their son? Nope, they were locked in their bedroom tweeting how awful their son is. I will address this specific case in another post.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Survivalism, confirmation bias, and the "Obama Boom"
A common topic on survivalist forums is "normalcy bias". This is where people assume that because something has always been a certain way that it will always be so. Survivalists like to whip this one out as the cause of the poor downtrodden sheeple just not getting the "fact" that TEOTW is surely upon us. Never mind that TEOTW hasn't happened yet, that all their predictions of it have been wrong.
Well, I want to add another bias to the mix. Confirmation bias is where a person goes looking for "proof" of the truth of a preconceived opinion. If one only has a hammer, one will see nothing but protruding nails. Survivalists have a BIG problem with confirmation bias imo. They are so convinced that the world is about to end that they grab onto any strand of "proof" they can find. I guess they don't want all the money they've spent on preps to be a total loss.
I have been thinking about confirmation bias lately as the result of two articles on MSNBC. One was about some prognosticator saying that "we are in year six of a 20 year boom". Well, ok, opinions are like assholes, everybody has them and most of them stink like poo. But today, MSNBC directly referenced the "Obama Boom". This wasn't some dude who has smoked too much wacky tobacky blowing hot air, but a news item that pointed out that the improving economy may change people's opinion of Obama.
Anybody remember "2016: Obama's America"? When Obama was first elected, this video popped up, asserting that America would be in a state of near collapse and chaos if Obama got eight years to ruin it. Well, a weird thing happened on the way to TEOTWAWKI: San Francisco has such a tight housing market that sellers are making the sale of their houses contingent on the seller wrapping up a place to move to. Wall Street is on a tear. The numbers of employed persons in the state of Oregon is at an all time high.
The normal response among the far right to this is something along the lines of "who you gonna believe, me and my fellow doomsters or your lying eyes?" Searches for survivalist topics are down two thirds from a December 2012 peak. (Apparently, many thought that a nonexistent prediction from a calendar that is only 50% legible by archaeologists, never mind laypeople, was far scarier than an inexperienced president.) Doomer Michael Snyder (you know him, The Economic Collapse Blog) and many others are starting to look crazy when every piece of good news is met by them sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming "lalala, it's all fake, the numbers are cooked".
This is confirmation bias at work. Having cut their teeth on the near meltdown of global finance in 2008, they are grabbing onto every string of bad news from Greece in order to keep the doom gravy train from derailing. Other than being careful what horse you hitch your cart to (although admittedly people have been expecting Jesus to return for 2000 years), what this says is that some people simply can't accept that maybe the world WON'T end next week. This doesn't mean to stop prepping (although many people have and will, and after all hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes do happen) but that you don't need to prep for TEOTW. Even an earthquake is far less demanding to prep for. And as I have noted, a tree falling on your power line or a water pipe bursting in your ceiling is far more likely than a zombie apocalypse.
A common topic on survivalist forums is "normalcy bias". This is where people assume that because something has always been a certain way that it will always be so. Survivalists like to whip this one out as the cause of the poor downtrodden sheeple just not getting the "fact" that TEOTW is surely upon us. Never mind that TEOTW hasn't happened yet, that all their predictions of it have been wrong.
Well, I want to add another bias to the mix. Confirmation bias is where a person goes looking for "proof" of the truth of a preconceived opinion. If one only has a hammer, one will see nothing but protruding nails. Survivalists have a BIG problem with confirmation bias imo. They are so convinced that the world is about to end that they grab onto any strand of "proof" they can find. I guess they don't want all the money they've spent on preps to be a total loss.
I have been thinking about confirmation bias lately as the result of two articles on MSNBC. One was about some prognosticator saying that "we are in year six of a 20 year boom". Well, ok, opinions are like assholes, everybody has them and most of them stink like poo. But today, MSNBC directly referenced the "Obama Boom". This wasn't some dude who has smoked too much wacky tobacky blowing hot air, but a news item that pointed out that the improving economy may change people's opinion of Obama.
Anybody remember "2016: Obama's America"? When Obama was first elected, this video popped up, asserting that America would be in a state of near collapse and chaos if Obama got eight years to ruin it. Well, a weird thing happened on the way to TEOTWAWKI: San Francisco has such a tight housing market that sellers are making the sale of their houses contingent on the seller wrapping up a place to move to. Wall Street is on a tear. The numbers of employed persons in the state of Oregon is at an all time high.
The normal response among the far right to this is something along the lines of "who you gonna believe, me and my fellow doomsters or your lying eyes?" Searches for survivalist topics are down two thirds from a December 2012 peak. (Apparently, many thought that a nonexistent prediction from a calendar that is only 50% legible by archaeologists, never mind laypeople, was far scarier than an inexperienced president.) Doomer Michael Snyder (you know him, The Economic Collapse Blog) and many others are starting to look crazy when every piece of good news is met by them sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming "lalala, it's all fake, the numbers are cooked".
This is confirmation bias at work. Having cut their teeth on the near meltdown of global finance in 2008, they are grabbing onto every string of bad news from Greece in order to keep the doom gravy train from derailing. Other than being careful what horse you hitch your cart to (although admittedly people have been expecting Jesus to return for 2000 years), what this says is that some people simply can't accept that maybe the world WON'T end next week. This doesn't mean to stop prepping (although many people have and will, and after all hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes do happen) but that you don't need to prep for TEOTW. Even an earthquake is far less demanding to prep for. And as I have noted, a tree falling on your power line or a water pipe bursting in your ceiling is far more likely than a zombie apocalypse.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
DA'ASH away all! Surviving the latest terror threat
Happy Labor Day. (Actually, the REAL Labor Day is on May 1, but that's another discussion.) On this Labor Day, the latest arm of the Al Qaeda octopus, generally called Islamic State/ISIS/ISIL, is on the march, controlling vast areas of Syria and Iraq, with expensively trained (with YOUR tax dollars, folks!) Iraqi military disappearing when confronted with an actual foe. Islamic State is known in the Muslim world via their Arabic acronym, DA'ASH (duh-ash) which I can't remember what it means in Arabic. Since "ISIS" is a pagan god, and ISIL is too close for comfort to ISIS, I will henceforth refer to Islamic State as DA'ASH.
DA'ASH has vowed attacks on the American mainland, with shopping malls, downtown Chicago, and the White House as explicit targets. Obama and his merry pranksters are doing nothing, as usual, so protecting oneself from DA'ASH and their operatives rests with the citizens. What should one do?
1) Shop online.
Yes, you will have to pay shipping. But $10 shipping is cheap compared to losing your legs to a pressure cooker bomb. This Labor Day, the malls will be full of back to school shoppers. Steer clear. Amazon is usually cheaper anyway.
2) Avoid government buildings and iconic landmarks like famous skyscrapers.
Now, if you work in downtown Chicago or NYC, or for a congresscritter, this is easier said than done. We all have to eat. Maybe you can get transferred elsewhere. For the rest of us, don't be around high profile targets unless absolutely necessary.
3) Keep track of important dates.
I've met retired people who don't know what day it is. They go to a govt office, and can't believe it's closed. Oh yeah, it's Labor Day! DUH! In September alone, there are three important dates:
*Labor Day, September 1
*September 11 anniversary, called Patriot Day in some places
*Jewish High Holy Days such as Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah
Try staycationing at home. Of course, Jews will want to celebrate the High Holy Days, and fortunately most synagogues have ample security. But...
4) BE AWARE!
Situational awareness is the best defense one has if one is going to be at a high profile target on a holiday. Unattended backpacks, weird people, cars behaving strangely, all could be signs of a terror attack.
5) Be Prepared.
Would you know how to stop bleeding from someone's ripped off leg or arm after a bombing? Would you know how to treat burns or deep cuts? Do you know CPR? All could be useful skills after a terror attack.
6) DON'T PANIC!
Most sheeple panic and freak out if there's a terror attack. Don't be a sheep. Keep your cool. Be cynical about "security laws" proposed after a major attack, while the sheep are bleating for politicians to DO SOMETHING! The best line of defense against terror isn't cops or soldiers, it's YOU. No law can take the place of common sense. Unfortunately, common sense seems to be rather uncommon.
Happy Labor Day. (Actually, the REAL Labor Day is on May 1, but that's another discussion.) On this Labor Day, the latest arm of the Al Qaeda octopus, generally called Islamic State/ISIS/ISIL, is on the march, controlling vast areas of Syria and Iraq, with expensively trained (with YOUR tax dollars, folks!) Iraqi military disappearing when confronted with an actual foe. Islamic State is known in the Muslim world via their Arabic acronym, DA'ASH (duh-ash) which I can't remember what it means in Arabic. Since "ISIS" is a pagan god, and ISIL is too close for comfort to ISIS, I will henceforth refer to Islamic State as DA'ASH.
DA'ASH has vowed attacks on the American mainland, with shopping malls, downtown Chicago, and the White House as explicit targets. Obama and his merry pranksters are doing nothing, as usual, so protecting oneself from DA'ASH and their operatives rests with the citizens. What should one do?
1) Shop online.
Yes, you will have to pay shipping. But $10 shipping is cheap compared to losing your legs to a pressure cooker bomb. This Labor Day, the malls will be full of back to school shoppers. Steer clear. Amazon is usually cheaper anyway.
2) Avoid government buildings and iconic landmarks like famous skyscrapers.
Now, if you work in downtown Chicago or NYC, or for a congresscritter, this is easier said than done. We all have to eat. Maybe you can get transferred elsewhere. For the rest of us, don't be around high profile targets unless absolutely necessary.
3) Keep track of important dates.
I've met retired people who don't know what day it is. They go to a govt office, and can't believe it's closed. Oh yeah, it's Labor Day! DUH! In September alone, there are three important dates:
*Labor Day, September 1
*September 11 anniversary, called Patriot Day in some places
*Jewish High Holy Days such as Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah
Try staycationing at home. Of course, Jews will want to celebrate the High Holy Days, and fortunately most synagogues have ample security. But...
4) BE AWARE!
Situational awareness is the best defense one has if one is going to be at a high profile target on a holiday. Unattended backpacks, weird people, cars behaving strangely, all could be signs of a terror attack.
5) Be Prepared.
Would you know how to stop bleeding from someone's ripped off leg or arm after a bombing? Would you know how to treat burns or deep cuts? Do you know CPR? All could be useful skills after a terror attack.
6) DON'T PANIC!
Most sheeple panic and freak out if there's a terror attack. Don't be a sheep. Keep your cool. Be cynical about "security laws" proposed after a major attack, while the sheep are bleating for politicians to DO SOMETHING! The best line of defense against terror isn't cops or soldiers, it's YOU. No law can take the place of common sense. Unfortunately, common sense seems to be rather uncommon.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Dude, where's my country? (apologies to Michael Moore)
I recently checked Lisa Sain's blog and was surprised to see her posting again. Since her severely autistic son is now in residential care, she wrote that she "feels human again" and sleeps in a clean bed and even has a boyfriend. I haven't read much of her blog, but I know that her son Preston practically demolished the inside of her house with his frequent, terrifyingly violent meltdowns. She recently said that he would rip out chunks of drywall and eat them. Among other things.
So I googled Kelli Stapleton to see how the case was coming along. Her trial is in a couple months. And then I found myself staring at the following link, via a couple clicks:
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/kent_state_professor_trudy_ste.html
Trudy's son was 6 foot, 200 lbs of rage. Uncontrolled rage. Rage so fierce that he ultimately beat his mother to death. The jail had to keep him in a separate cell. It took two months to find a placement.
One thing that seems to pop up over and over is that there are zero services for teens and adults with autism. Parents look and look and are turned away every place they go. If the kid is violent, there are even less than zero. There are no institutions anymore. Few group homes take autistics. I suspect that the "bulge" of autistic kids who started being born in the late 80s will eventually wind up on the streets, alongside the schizophrenics and bipolars and delusionals and so forth.
When Reagan closed the institutions, he expected other options to be instituted. Future politicians refused to fund that. So we have a network of grungy "group homes" in rundown suburban tract homes, built for happy 50s and 60s families, cheaply retrofitted for a small number of special needs persons. The group homes are horrid, dirty, smelly, and abusive. As for the rest, we have the streets. Maybe the institutions were bad. But now we have something much worse.
So, to recap: millions of special needs people who nobody will care for. Parents grow old and die, if the kid doesn't kill them first. The bureaucracy is full of chair warmers whose refrain is "not my responsibility, sorry". Schools refuse to teach the kids, and after age 22 it's "sorry, not our responsibility".
Reading forum posts from autistic adults, it's clear that even the higher functioning ones find it hard to hold jobs and live independently. Many live in fear of their benefit checks being yanked out from under them by callous politicians. In England, the disabled have faced the end of ALL benefits. At least one man starved to death.
How much longer until the world decides to build death camps for the disabled? I'm reminded of the part of the neo Nazi novel The Turner Diaries where after the white revolutionaries take Los Angeles, everybody deemed "lesser" is simply marched into the mountains, never to be seen again. In the future, there may be camps set up in Flyover Country where the "imperfect" are taken to "disappear". A burning human body smells quite rancid, from what I've heard. If you think of a place like Auschwitz, where the kremas operated day and night, the smell must have been horrible, yet nobody thought to ask, hey guys what the frick is that awful smell, anyway?
Sometimes, I wonder what the world would be like if the Nazis had succeeded in their goal of slaughtering every "non-Aryan" on earth. One truism of genetics is that small, inbred populations eventually have weird diseases surface, the result of random genetic combinations. The Fundamentalist LDS Church, a Mormon polygamy cult near the Grand Canyon, was ruled by a man who wanted to create a master race via inbreeding. His efforts caused a weird, rarely seen disorder called fumarase deficiency to afflict and kill hundreds of cultists. If the Nazis had succeeded, eventually some disease would have popped up and torn through the remaining "perfect" humans like a firestorm in the Southern California mountains in August. And that would have been that.
When cops are given free rein to kill the disabled, and so are their parents, and we willingly via neglect put the disabled in positions to be killed, we come ever closer to genocide. When bureaucrats refuse to help, and so does everybody else, ditto. America in the 1940s was in some respects not such a great place; millions lived in third world conditions, people were confined in institutions on the word of a single doctor, and who can forget the internment of the Japanese. But we defeated evil, real evil. Now WE ARE that evil. I don't know what Satan did with my country, but I want it back.
I recently checked Lisa Sain's blog and was surprised to see her posting again. Since her severely autistic son is now in residential care, she wrote that she "feels human again" and sleeps in a clean bed and even has a boyfriend. I haven't read much of her blog, but I know that her son Preston practically demolished the inside of her house with his frequent, terrifyingly violent meltdowns. She recently said that he would rip out chunks of drywall and eat them. Among other things.
So I googled Kelli Stapleton to see how the case was coming along. Her trial is in a couple months. And then I found myself staring at the following link, via a couple clicks:
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/kent_state_professor_trudy_ste.html
Trudy's son was 6 foot, 200 lbs of rage. Uncontrolled rage. Rage so fierce that he ultimately beat his mother to death. The jail had to keep him in a separate cell. It took two months to find a placement.
One thing that seems to pop up over and over is that there are zero services for teens and adults with autism. Parents look and look and are turned away every place they go. If the kid is violent, there are even less than zero. There are no institutions anymore. Few group homes take autistics. I suspect that the "bulge" of autistic kids who started being born in the late 80s will eventually wind up on the streets, alongside the schizophrenics and bipolars and delusionals and so forth.
When Reagan closed the institutions, he expected other options to be instituted. Future politicians refused to fund that. So we have a network of grungy "group homes" in rundown suburban tract homes, built for happy 50s and 60s families, cheaply retrofitted for a small number of special needs persons. The group homes are horrid, dirty, smelly, and abusive. As for the rest, we have the streets. Maybe the institutions were bad. But now we have something much worse.
So, to recap: millions of special needs people who nobody will care for. Parents grow old and die, if the kid doesn't kill them first. The bureaucracy is full of chair warmers whose refrain is "not my responsibility, sorry". Schools refuse to teach the kids, and after age 22 it's "sorry, not our responsibility".
Reading forum posts from autistic adults, it's clear that even the higher functioning ones find it hard to hold jobs and live independently. Many live in fear of their benefit checks being yanked out from under them by callous politicians. In England, the disabled have faced the end of ALL benefits. At least one man starved to death.
How much longer until the world decides to build death camps for the disabled? I'm reminded of the part of the neo Nazi novel The Turner Diaries where after the white revolutionaries take Los Angeles, everybody deemed "lesser" is simply marched into the mountains, never to be seen again. In the future, there may be camps set up in Flyover Country where the "imperfect" are taken to "disappear". A burning human body smells quite rancid, from what I've heard. If you think of a place like Auschwitz, where the kremas operated day and night, the smell must have been horrible, yet nobody thought to ask, hey guys what the frick is that awful smell, anyway?
Sometimes, I wonder what the world would be like if the Nazis had succeeded in their goal of slaughtering every "non-Aryan" on earth. One truism of genetics is that small, inbred populations eventually have weird diseases surface, the result of random genetic combinations. The Fundamentalist LDS Church, a Mormon polygamy cult near the Grand Canyon, was ruled by a man who wanted to create a master race via inbreeding. His efforts caused a weird, rarely seen disorder called fumarase deficiency to afflict and kill hundreds of cultists. If the Nazis had succeeded, eventually some disease would have popped up and torn through the remaining "perfect" humans like a firestorm in the Southern California mountains in August. And that would have been that.
When cops are given free rein to kill the disabled, and so are their parents, and we willingly via neglect put the disabled in positions to be killed, we come ever closer to genocide. When bureaucrats refuse to help, and so does everybody else, ditto. America in the 1940s was in some respects not such a great place; millions lived in third world conditions, people were confined in institutions on the word of a single doctor, and who can forget the internment of the Japanese. But we defeated evil, real evil. Now WE ARE that evil. I don't know what Satan did with my country, but I want it back.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Maren Sanchez, a dead air conditioner, and yet more car follies: when SHTF blindsides you unexpectedly
I am writing at 11 pm Pacific time because my air conditioner quit a week ago and it's unbearably hot in here, and I can't sleep. Even worse, I've been stuck at home for a week because some woman with Florida plates on her car, and no insurance, backed into my car in a Wal Mart parking lot. Since she had no insurance, our insurance company is making us pay the $750 deductible towards repairs. My mom blames me, of course, so for two weeks I've been listening to her blame me.
So, since I'm listening to my brain bake in 100 degree heat, I've been thinking a lot about Maren Sanchez. If you were following the national news towards the end of April, you know that she's the 16 year old girl from an affluent Connecticut family who was killed on the day of her junior prom by a crazed admirer: a 16 year old boy who wouldn't take no for an answer.
He was obsessed with her, but she wouldn't give him the time of day. Turns out he was being treated for "ADHD" and "depression", overdiagnosed maladies that are "treated" with amphetamines and SSRI antidepressants. IMO only opioids are more dangerous. Those drugs cause psychosis, among other things. The boy had been acting strangely for a few months before he killed Sanchez. In one episode, he ripped off his pants in front of a class. Under the influence of "legal dope", he apparently decided that if he couldn't have her, nobody would.
Maren was blissfully unaware that she was going to die. The night before she was killed, she was painting scenery for a drama club production of Little Shop of Horrors. She asked to be excused to have her nails done. An hour later, she returned and showed off her new nail job. Then she picked up a paintbrush and went back to work. She had picked out her prom dress, a turquoise colored gown with gold trim, and tweeted a selfie of herself wearing it. Her boyfriend would have given her a single red rose on prom night. Then it would have been off to a local hotel ballroom for prom. Perhaps she would have danced to popular EDM DJ Avicii:
Hey, brother, do you still believe in one another?
Hey, sister, do you still believe in love I wonder?
If the sky comes falling down for you
There's nothing this world can do
-Avicii, Hey Brother
On the morning before her prom, she was asked out by her stalker. When she said no, he threw her down some stairs, then leapt on top of her and slashed her throat, breasts, and face with a "kitchen knife" (likely a long chef knife of the kind available at most supermarkets, I have one by my bedside for protection, since I can't own a gun). She was rushed to a hospital, where she died. At 7 am she was looking forward to prom, at 8 am she was dead. Her sky came falling down. She never saw it coming.
Last Saturday when I turned down my AC for the night, I didn't know the compressor would suddenly quit. When I went to Wal Mart at the beginning of the month to buy food, I didn't know that my car would be wrecked. My mom was doing errands a couple months ago, unaware that she would narrowly escape death. The belief that there will be plenty of warning before SHTF is rooted in Biblical beliefs about the Apocalypse and the Revelation of John of Patmos, where the signs pile up warning true Christians. In most cases, it's simply not true. There is little or no warning, in real life. Maren Sanchez was buried in her prom gown, holding that rose, forever frozen in time as a happy 11th grade teen looking forward to prom. What will you do if the sky comes falling down for you, and that's the one scenario you DIDN'T prep for?
I am writing at 11 pm Pacific time because my air conditioner quit a week ago and it's unbearably hot in here, and I can't sleep. Even worse, I've been stuck at home for a week because some woman with Florida plates on her car, and no insurance, backed into my car in a Wal Mart parking lot. Since she had no insurance, our insurance company is making us pay the $750 deductible towards repairs. My mom blames me, of course, so for two weeks I've been listening to her blame me.
So, since I'm listening to my brain bake in 100 degree heat, I've been thinking a lot about Maren Sanchez. If you were following the national news towards the end of April, you know that she's the 16 year old girl from an affluent Connecticut family who was killed on the day of her junior prom by a crazed admirer: a 16 year old boy who wouldn't take no for an answer.
He was obsessed with her, but she wouldn't give him the time of day. Turns out he was being treated for "ADHD" and "depression", overdiagnosed maladies that are "treated" with amphetamines and SSRI antidepressants. IMO only opioids are more dangerous. Those drugs cause psychosis, among other things. The boy had been acting strangely for a few months before he killed Sanchez. In one episode, he ripped off his pants in front of a class. Under the influence of "legal dope", he apparently decided that if he couldn't have her, nobody would.
Maren was blissfully unaware that she was going to die. The night before she was killed, she was painting scenery for a drama club production of Little Shop of Horrors. She asked to be excused to have her nails done. An hour later, she returned and showed off her new nail job. Then she picked up a paintbrush and went back to work. She had picked out her prom dress, a turquoise colored gown with gold trim, and tweeted a selfie of herself wearing it. Her boyfriend would have given her a single red rose on prom night. Then it would have been off to a local hotel ballroom for prom. Perhaps she would have danced to popular EDM DJ Avicii:
Hey, brother, do you still believe in one another?
Hey, sister, do you still believe in love I wonder?
If the sky comes falling down for you
There's nothing this world can do
-Avicii, Hey Brother
On the morning before her prom, she was asked out by her stalker. When she said no, he threw her down some stairs, then leapt on top of her and slashed her throat, breasts, and face with a "kitchen knife" (likely a long chef knife of the kind available at most supermarkets, I have one by my bedside for protection, since I can't own a gun). She was rushed to a hospital, where she died. At 7 am she was looking forward to prom, at 8 am she was dead. Her sky came falling down. She never saw it coming.
Last Saturday when I turned down my AC for the night, I didn't know the compressor would suddenly quit. When I went to Wal Mart at the beginning of the month to buy food, I didn't know that my car would be wrecked. My mom was doing errands a couple months ago, unaware that she would narrowly escape death. The belief that there will be plenty of warning before SHTF is rooted in Biblical beliefs about the Apocalypse and the Revelation of John of Patmos, where the signs pile up warning true Christians. In most cases, it's simply not true. There is little or no warning, in real life. Maren Sanchez was buried in her prom gown, holding that rose, forever frozen in time as a happy 11th grade teen looking forward to prom. What will you do if the sky comes falling down for you, and that's the one scenario you DIDN'T prep for?
Monday, March 31, 2014
The everyday SHTF: Are you prepared?
"What will SHTF be like?" Ask that on any prepper board and you'll get fanciful tales of EMP bursts sending us back to 1700, Obama seizing power as a dictator leading to civil war and militias saving the day, etc. About the only thing missing is zombies.
What's more likely is a SHTF affecting just you. For example, my cousin, who lives in Reno, got home after picking up her kids from school to find the fire dept at her apartment building. This was right after the big December cold snap, and a cheap water pipe had burst, flooding three apartments, including hers. Most of her stuff was ruined. Even worse, the complex had a 0% vacancy rate. Three families were dumped onto the street. My cousin, her hubby, and her two kids had to shoehorn themselves into a single bedroom of her mom's dinky house in Sparks. Crowded, you bet. She eventually found another place.
I was driving to downtown a couple weeks ago when the cars in front of me lurched forward, then stopped, at a red light. I stopped in time, but the woman behind me didn't. My car was gouged up pretty bad, and the front of her car was bashed in. Then, just this morning, my mom's van was almost totaled by a guy who didn't see her stopped at a red light in time. Fortunately, he swerved at the last second. I am not ready-yet-to live without my parents.
People get lost in the woods all the time, like the San Francisco family that got lost near Roseburg, Oregon, a few years ago. No cell phone service. So dad tried to hike out, and died, during winter. His family was ultimately rescued. Compare that to the Oregon native who took a wrong turn in the woods near Medford. Once she realized she was lost, she stopped, bedded down for the night using a blanket she had in her vehicle, then followed her tire tracks back to the main road the next morning, showing up at the command post set up for searchers, and startling them.
Are YOU ready for something like that? Losing your job, or house, or car? People collect guns to ward off attacking UN troops, then end up selling the guns at a discount for food. One guy and his wife got lost in the desert, and he decided to hike out. Wifey was ultimately rescued, but no trace of him was ever found. People get lost in Death Valley, and are swallowed by the desert. Maybe a bone is found years later. It's more likely that you'll get hit by lightning than that you'll be fighting in a new American Revolution. Are YOU prepped?
"What will SHTF be like?" Ask that on any prepper board and you'll get fanciful tales of EMP bursts sending us back to 1700, Obama seizing power as a dictator leading to civil war and militias saving the day, etc. About the only thing missing is zombies.
What's more likely is a SHTF affecting just you. For example, my cousin, who lives in Reno, got home after picking up her kids from school to find the fire dept at her apartment building. This was right after the big December cold snap, and a cheap water pipe had burst, flooding three apartments, including hers. Most of her stuff was ruined. Even worse, the complex had a 0% vacancy rate. Three families were dumped onto the street. My cousin, her hubby, and her two kids had to shoehorn themselves into a single bedroom of her mom's dinky house in Sparks. Crowded, you bet. She eventually found another place.
I was driving to downtown a couple weeks ago when the cars in front of me lurched forward, then stopped, at a red light. I stopped in time, but the woman behind me didn't. My car was gouged up pretty bad, and the front of her car was bashed in. Then, just this morning, my mom's van was almost totaled by a guy who didn't see her stopped at a red light in time. Fortunately, he swerved at the last second. I am not ready-yet-to live without my parents.
People get lost in the woods all the time, like the San Francisco family that got lost near Roseburg, Oregon, a few years ago. No cell phone service. So dad tried to hike out, and died, during winter. His family was ultimately rescued. Compare that to the Oregon native who took a wrong turn in the woods near Medford. Once she realized she was lost, she stopped, bedded down for the night using a blanket she had in her vehicle, then followed her tire tracks back to the main road the next morning, showing up at the command post set up for searchers, and startling them.
Are YOU ready for something like that? Losing your job, or house, or car? People collect guns to ward off attacking UN troops, then end up selling the guns at a discount for food. One guy and his wife got lost in the desert, and he decided to hike out. Wifey was ultimately rescued, but no trace of him was ever found. People get lost in Death Valley, and are swallowed by the desert. Maybe a bone is found years later. It's more likely that you'll get hit by lightning than that you'll be fighting in a new American Revolution. Are YOU prepped?
Monday, January 6, 2014
Neurodiverse and neurotypical talking past each other?
I recently read the following:
http://marlowefranklin.blogspot.com/2014/01/discrimination-and-bigotry-against.html
Now, as a "neurodiverse" individual, I can understand where the parents are coming from. Having an ASD kid means, for many, physical abuse, screaming, property destruction, etc etc until the parent loses it and starts fantasizing about killing their kid. It may not be so much evil as mental illness induced by PTSD-type events.
But you know what? Aspies also suffer. We are bullied in school, bullied to the point where "normal" kids are routinely doing physical and even sexual harm to us. Furthermore, the only response the educational system has to this bullying is to reward the bullies and tell us that it's our fault we were bullied because we are "weak" and need to "toughen up". We are told that our symptoms aren't real, that we are only doing them because we're jerks who are constantly seeking what one of my teachers called "negative attention". We can't succeed in life, we're told, so we seek attention in "destructive" ways.
Furthermore, once we graduate school-IF we do-we can't find a job. Nobody will hire us because "nobody likes a debbie downer"-an outlook formed by years of bullying. We aren't "team players", and thus are unfit to hire. When we try to get SSI, we are told to "find a job you lazy bum!". Do you see the double bind here? We are constantly told that we could become NT if only we tried hard enough. Autism is a defect in brain wiring-we CAN'T just shed it like a snake sheds its skin. After 40 or 50 years of this, we become bitter and hateful. Many of us had mentally ill families who abused us.
Yes, some parents are abused by their ASD kids until they snap. But we are victims of abuse too. The system doesn't care about parents OR sufferers, we are only there to be abused by bureaucrats so they can get more funding, which never seems to reach the people who need it, having been diverted into the pockets of some manager somewhere.
I don't pretend to judge Kelli Stapleton, or any other parent of a special needs kid. Christianity says that only God Himself has the right to judge. I don't know if God exists, but if He does, we need to leave the judging to Him, and start talking TO each other, rather than PAST each other.
Our current system is set up to reward sociopaths and cull the "weak". Billionaires routinely talk of culling the population, which means they want 90% of us to die. I don't mind dying, but the desire to wipe out all but the sociopaths should be called what it is: Genocide.
Genocide isn't like in The Turner Diaries where the undesirables march meekly into the mountains, never to be heard from again. Genocide is mass graves and gas chambers and ovens emitting horrible smells. Genocide is your friends and their families being rounded up by stormtroopers and "vanishing".
The word "genocide" is tossed around a lot in the ND community, by people who should know better. A handful of desperate parents killing their kids, while abhorrent, is not genocide. Genocide is a system where the weak are abandoned and sent off to die, not by their families but by bureaucrats. When aspies are told to kill themselves and that nobody would care if they did, that's genocide. When families are cast aside to save money, that's genocide. When nobody will help the Kelli Stapletons of the world, then those same people celebrate when they snap, that's genocide.
It's not Kelli's fault that she was put on a merry go round until she snapped. It IS the fault of sociopathic politicians and their Wall Street friends who think that the only good commoner is a dead one. Parents and kids need to stop hating each other and start hating the REAL evil.
I recently read the following:
http://marlowefranklin.blogspot.com/2014/01/discrimination-and-bigotry-against.html
Now, as a "neurodiverse" individual, I can understand where the parents are coming from. Having an ASD kid means, for many, physical abuse, screaming, property destruction, etc etc until the parent loses it and starts fantasizing about killing their kid. It may not be so much evil as mental illness induced by PTSD-type events.
But you know what? Aspies also suffer. We are bullied in school, bullied to the point where "normal" kids are routinely doing physical and even sexual harm to us. Furthermore, the only response the educational system has to this bullying is to reward the bullies and tell us that it's our fault we were bullied because we are "weak" and need to "toughen up". We are told that our symptoms aren't real, that we are only doing them because we're jerks who are constantly seeking what one of my teachers called "negative attention". We can't succeed in life, we're told, so we seek attention in "destructive" ways.
Furthermore, once we graduate school-IF we do-we can't find a job. Nobody will hire us because "nobody likes a debbie downer"-an outlook formed by years of bullying. We aren't "team players", and thus are unfit to hire. When we try to get SSI, we are told to "find a job you lazy bum!". Do you see the double bind here? We are constantly told that we could become NT if only we tried hard enough. Autism is a defect in brain wiring-we CAN'T just shed it like a snake sheds its skin. After 40 or 50 years of this, we become bitter and hateful. Many of us had mentally ill families who abused us.
Yes, some parents are abused by their ASD kids until they snap. But we are victims of abuse too. The system doesn't care about parents OR sufferers, we are only there to be abused by bureaucrats so they can get more funding, which never seems to reach the people who need it, having been diverted into the pockets of some manager somewhere.
I don't pretend to judge Kelli Stapleton, or any other parent of a special needs kid. Christianity says that only God Himself has the right to judge. I don't know if God exists, but if He does, we need to leave the judging to Him, and start talking TO each other, rather than PAST each other.
Our current system is set up to reward sociopaths and cull the "weak". Billionaires routinely talk of culling the population, which means they want 90% of us to die. I don't mind dying, but the desire to wipe out all but the sociopaths should be called what it is: Genocide.
Genocide isn't like in The Turner Diaries where the undesirables march meekly into the mountains, never to be heard from again. Genocide is mass graves and gas chambers and ovens emitting horrible smells. Genocide is your friends and their families being rounded up by stormtroopers and "vanishing".
The word "genocide" is tossed around a lot in the ND community, by people who should know better. A handful of desperate parents killing their kids, while abhorrent, is not genocide. Genocide is a system where the weak are abandoned and sent off to die, not by their families but by bureaucrats. When aspies are told to kill themselves and that nobody would care if they did, that's genocide. When families are cast aside to save money, that's genocide. When nobody will help the Kelli Stapletons of the world, then those same people celebrate when they snap, that's genocide.
It's not Kelli's fault that she was put on a merry go round until she snapped. It IS the fault of sociopathic politicians and their Wall Street friends who think that the only good commoner is a dead one. Parents and kids need to stop hating each other and start hating the REAL evil.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Mental illness and kids: one mom's story
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/12/health/mentally-ill-son/
I'll be honest, I couldn't bear to read the whole thing. I was a mentally ill kid too. Except in the 1980s, there was about zero help. I was taken to many different psychiatrists by my mom; it was either "he'll grow out of it" or "he's hopeless, if there were still institutions he'd be in one". In addition, my dad was mentally ill too, and there was little help for him as an adult as well.
I wonder if this kid's problem isn't related to schizophrenia-he hears voices, after all. I didn't start hearing voices until I was about 25 or 26, then they were suppressed for a few years by an antipsychotic I was taking for irrational fears, then I was taken off that drug and the voices ramped up. One thing normal people don't realize is that outside the voices are quiet. That may be why so many schizos choose lives of homeless wandering-it calms the voices.
Most schizos don't or can't realize that the voices have no power over them. They don't know how to fight back against the voices. It takes medication, yes, but it also takes determination when the voices are saying "we're real!" to say back at them "no, you're not, and I can prove it". The voices don't want you to take your medication, this is almost universal in schizophrenia, for some reason the voices are afraid of the meds.
The voices are bullies, but like every bully they're weak at heart, and they put on the tough guy act to make you THINK that they're authoritative, but once you start fighting them they back down. I want to say to everybody who hears the voices, fight them tooth and nail, tell them they're not real, google everything they tell you to prove they're lying. And, take your meds, even though they will tell you not to, set your alarms in the morning and take the meds.
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/12/health/mentally-ill-son/
I'll be honest, I couldn't bear to read the whole thing. I was a mentally ill kid too. Except in the 1980s, there was about zero help. I was taken to many different psychiatrists by my mom; it was either "he'll grow out of it" or "he's hopeless, if there were still institutions he'd be in one". In addition, my dad was mentally ill too, and there was little help for him as an adult as well.
I wonder if this kid's problem isn't related to schizophrenia-he hears voices, after all. I didn't start hearing voices until I was about 25 or 26, then they were suppressed for a few years by an antipsychotic I was taking for irrational fears, then I was taken off that drug and the voices ramped up. One thing normal people don't realize is that outside the voices are quiet. That may be why so many schizos choose lives of homeless wandering-it calms the voices.
Most schizos don't or can't realize that the voices have no power over them. They don't know how to fight back against the voices. It takes medication, yes, but it also takes determination when the voices are saying "we're real!" to say back at them "no, you're not, and I can prove it". The voices don't want you to take your medication, this is almost universal in schizophrenia, for some reason the voices are afraid of the meds.
The voices are bullies, but like every bully they're weak at heart, and they put on the tough guy act to make you THINK that they're authoritative, but once you start fighting them they back down. I want to say to everybody who hears the voices, fight them tooth and nail, tell them they're not real, google everything they tell you to prove they're lying. And, take your meds, even though they will tell you not to, set your alarms in the morning and take the meds.
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Chaos in Cordoba, Argentina, as cops go on strike
From Argentine expat Ferfal:
http://www.themodernsurvivalist.com/archives/3128
I'm no friend of LEO's, I'll admit. But what happens in a devolved society like Argentina where suddenly there are no cops? PARTY TIME! Every conceivable store gets looted, residences are broken into, and people scramble to defend themselves against a total ungluing of civilization. A common meme in the survivalist community is that the planet is nine meals away from chaos. Actually, only one thing stands between "civilization", even a degraded form of it, and chaos: cops.
Considering how many cops are corrupt or burned out, how they tend to see everybody as a potential suspect, blah blah blah, that's a scary idea. It makes one wonder how Old Western towns got along without LEO's, but the towns had one thing that the world today lacks: Morality. Parents taught kids morals, the community reinforced it, and everybody got along. Today, the parents are absent, either at work or on drugs, and kids raise each other. Lord of the Flies time. Especially since the last people with morals are dying off. Once they're gone, it's likely that Western Civilization will bite the dust. The resources have been depleted, the population of the planet is grossly inflated far beyond carrying capacity, so now it's time to pay the piper.
Stephen Hawking, one of the smartest people alive today, recently said that humanity will likely go extinct by the year 3000, ie 1000 years from now. I would be surprised if it lasted until the year 2100, 100 years from now. We are 100% dependent on technology that in turn depends on resources that will start to run dry in about 20-30 years. Without our technology, we're goners. We have evolved to depend on it. First comes looting for TVs, then the electricity goes away so in the next stage people grab food, then there's no more food so they eat each other, then even that is depleted, so they will simply die. We are as amoral as Romans were in AD 400. By AD 700 Rome was a ghost town. Rome had a population of 1 million in AD 300. History does repeat.
From Argentine expat Ferfal:
http://www.themodernsurvivalist.com/archives/3128
I'm no friend of LEO's, I'll admit. But what happens in a devolved society like Argentina where suddenly there are no cops? PARTY TIME! Every conceivable store gets looted, residences are broken into, and people scramble to defend themselves against a total ungluing of civilization. A common meme in the survivalist community is that the planet is nine meals away from chaos. Actually, only one thing stands between "civilization", even a degraded form of it, and chaos: cops.
Considering how many cops are corrupt or burned out, how they tend to see everybody as a potential suspect, blah blah blah, that's a scary idea. It makes one wonder how Old Western towns got along without LEO's, but the towns had one thing that the world today lacks: Morality. Parents taught kids morals, the community reinforced it, and everybody got along. Today, the parents are absent, either at work or on drugs, and kids raise each other. Lord of the Flies time. Especially since the last people with morals are dying off. Once they're gone, it's likely that Western Civilization will bite the dust. The resources have been depleted, the population of the planet is grossly inflated far beyond carrying capacity, so now it's time to pay the piper.
Stephen Hawking, one of the smartest people alive today, recently said that humanity will likely go extinct by the year 3000, ie 1000 years from now. I would be surprised if it lasted until the year 2100, 100 years from now. We are 100% dependent on technology that in turn depends on resources that will start to run dry in about 20-30 years. Without our technology, we're goners. We have evolved to depend on it. First comes looting for TVs, then the electricity goes away so in the next stage people grab food, then there's no more food so they eat each other, then even that is depleted, so they will simply die. We are as amoral as Romans were in AD 400. By AD 700 Rome was a ghost town. Rome had a population of 1 million in AD 300. History does repeat.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
The Free Stuff Army, the decline of the white race, and the end of the Jewish Diaspora
I recently came across this article from a rabbi, from a link on Survivalist Boards:
http://rabbipruzansky.com/2012/11/07/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-american-empire/
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about this guy, nor is this an endorsement outside of the linked article.
Rabbi Pruzansky's point is, essentially, that takers outnumber makers in an America and world where Whites are in the minority, and eventually the takers will "redistribute" the wealth of the makers, then kill the makers, not realizing that the golden goose has been cooked and eaten. Jews are once again under attack, and in a country that many of them viewed as a safe haven. Assembling the entire body of Judaism in Israel only makes them easier to find and kill once the chaos after the fall of America reaches that corner of the world.
But what choice do they have? At least united, they can fight till the end, then invoke the Samson Doctrine and pull most of the Muslims down with them. Whites and Jews have always been the "makers", what happens when the whites and Jews have been eliminated? That day is coming. The only option that "palefaces" have is to take as many of the attackers out with them as possible.
The irony is that it is likely that we are in this sorry position because Jews were afraid of whites after the horrors of the Shoah (Holocaust), and wanted to prevent another one. They wanted to disenfranchise whites and lift up the third world. Instead, we have a Jewry that has painted itself into a corner. The third world wants free stuff, and they don't care where it comes from. The poor vastly outnumber the rich. The poor want the cash and goodies of the rich, and are willing to take them by force.
Margaret Thatcher once said, socialism works great until you run out of other people's money. The poor have learned that they can vote themselves the lucre of the rich, and then vote themselves their existences. Once the rich are dead and gone, what then? Likely the weirdest world war you've ever seen, more like Iraq than WW2, where there is no safe haven and danger can come from anywhere. Eventually, the bullets will run out, the knives will break, and the rocks too slippery with blood to hurl. Then, humanity will go extinct, or near-extinct.
The human population growth curve since 1946 looks exactly like a population bubble in nature. Once the bubble pops, numbers drop immediately to near zero. May your G-d have mercy on us, Rabbi. We will need it.
I recently came across this article from a rabbi, from a link on Survivalist Boards:
http://rabbipruzansky.com/2012/11/07/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-american-empire/
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about this guy, nor is this an endorsement outside of the linked article.
Rabbi Pruzansky's point is, essentially, that takers outnumber makers in an America and world where Whites are in the minority, and eventually the takers will "redistribute" the wealth of the makers, then kill the makers, not realizing that the golden goose has been cooked and eaten. Jews are once again under attack, and in a country that many of them viewed as a safe haven. Assembling the entire body of Judaism in Israel only makes them easier to find and kill once the chaos after the fall of America reaches that corner of the world.
But what choice do they have? At least united, they can fight till the end, then invoke the Samson Doctrine and pull most of the Muslims down with them. Whites and Jews have always been the "makers", what happens when the whites and Jews have been eliminated? That day is coming. The only option that "palefaces" have is to take as many of the attackers out with them as possible.
The irony is that it is likely that we are in this sorry position because Jews were afraid of whites after the horrors of the Shoah (Holocaust), and wanted to prevent another one. They wanted to disenfranchise whites and lift up the third world. Instead, we have a Jewry that has painted itself into a corner. The third world wants free stuff, and they don't care where it comes from. The poor vastly outnumber the rich. The poor want the cash and goodies of the rich, and are willing to take them by force.
Margaret Thatcher once said, socialism works great until you run out of other people's money. The poor have learned that they can vote themselves the lucre of the rich, and then vote themselves their existences. Once the rich are dead and gone, what then? Likely the weirdest world war you've ever seen, more like Iraq than WW2, where there is no safe haven and danger can come from anywhere. Eventually, the bullets will run out, the knives will break, and the rocks too slippery with blood to hurl. Then, humanity will go extinct, or near-extinct.
The human population growth curve since 1946 looks exactly like a population bubble in nature. Once the bubble pops, numbers drop immediately to near zero. May your G-d have mercy on us, Rabbi. We will need it.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Number of people signed up for Obamacare via "Cover Oregon": Zero.
I follow the news out of southern Oregon because I hope one day to be a resident of the area. Recently KDRV-TV in Medford reported that exactly zero people had signed up for health care via the state health exchange, dubbed Cover Oregon. The websites created for O-care are full of bugs and don't function properly. In addition, people are finding out that Obama lied, and millions are getting dropped from their previous plans, and told to sign up for new ones via healthcare.gov, which doesn't work. In January, people will face hefty fines for not having insurance.
Let's be honest here. It may sound like conspiracy theory, but O-care has likely been from the beginning a huge tax hike on Americans via the guise of "not having health care", which they can't sign up for but they will still be fined for. The offered plans have sky high deductibles and very low maximums. The government is looking for a way to keep up their spending habits, so they're wringing as much money out of the populace as possible. Once the American public has nothing more to tax, they will be eliminated. Don't forget that the American debt is backed by the labor of the American people. That means our creditors the banksters (50% of outstanding debt is held by the banks, China only holds 1/16th) will simply seize the people, aka the collateral, when default comes.
Look on a dollar bill, it says right on it that it is debt. What is the debt backed by? The full faith and credit of the US Govt. What is the govt? Well, the people. The American citizenry IS the debt, in other words. We are all collateral for the US govt's debt. The govt derives its right to tax us from the fact that we have an obligation to pay the govt's bills. When the govt can't pay, it is the people who get wiped out.
Anyway, the govt has to tax the people, and institute giant tax hikes, to pay its bills. O-care was a sneaky backdoor way of forcing the American public to buy govt bonds. That "penalty for not having insurance" will buy govt bonds. The insurance companies will buy govt bonds with the premiums they get from the people. Since they won't have to pay any claims, and stocks are "too risky", they will buy T Bonds. That money will fund the govt. The whole scheme is unraveling, and fast. The govt is desperate for cash. If you are "rich", a word with a definition written on rubber, you will pay. Your money and eventually your life.
I follow the news out of southern Oregon because I hope one day to be a resident of the area. Recently KDRV-TV in Medford reported that exactly zero people had signed up for health care via the state health exchange, dubbed Cover Oregon. The websites created for O-care are full of bugs and don't function properly. In addition, people are finding out that Obama lied, and millions are getting dropped from their previous plans, and told to sign up for new ones via healthcare.gov, which doesn't work. In January, people will face hefty fines for not having insurance.
Let's be honest here. It may sound like conspiracy theory, but O-care has likely been from the beginning a huge tax hike on Americans via the guise of "not having health care", which they can't sign up for but they will still be fined for. The offered plans have sky high deductibles and very low maximums. The government is looking for a way to keep up their spending habits, so they're wringing as much money out of the populace as possible. Once the American public has nothing more to tax, they will be eliminated. Don't forget that the American debt is backed by the labor of the American people. That means our creditors the banksters (50% of outstanding debt is held by the banks, China only holds 1/16th) will simply seize the people, aka the collateral, when default comes.
Look on a dollar bill, it says right on it that it is debt. What is the debt backed by? The full faith and credit of the US Govt. What is the govt? Well, the people. The American citizenry IS the debt, in other words. We are all collateral for the US govt's debt. The govt derives its right to tax us from the fact that we have an obligation to pay the govt's bills. When the govt can't pay, it is the people who get wiped out.
Anyway, the govt has to tax the people, and institute giant tax hikes, to pay its bills. O-care was a sneaky backdoor way of forcing the American public to buy govt bonds. That "penalty for not having insurance" will buy govt bonds. The insurance companies will buy govt bonds with the premiums they get from the people. Since they won't have to pay any claims, and stocks are "too risky", they will buy T Bonds. That money will fund the govt. The whole scheme is unraveling, and fast. The govt is desperate for cash. If you are "rich", a word with a definition written on rubber, you will pay. Your money and eventually your life.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Debt, dysfunction, and the end of the (financial) world
It's a dead man's party
Who could ask for more
Everybody's coming
Leave your body at the door
-Oingo Boingo
As I write this, the world is anxiously watching a standoff between Barack Obama and John Boehner over the US debt limit. Boehner wants to force an abandonment of America's new, badly designed health care system, dubbed "Obamacare", in exchange for raising the debt limit and reopening the federal government, which has been shut down since October 1. Obama is demanding a "clean" resolution, without conditions. Republicans are insisting that defaulting on the debt won't be so bad. Message boards insist that we need to walk away from our debt and "get it over with".
The world in general has been loaded up with debt, and eventually this debt will lead to nuclear war and the end. Nobody disputes that. The only question is, fast or slow? Do we default now, or do we drag it out, hopefully giving people more time to prepare? (Although I fail to see how you "prepare" for a total nuke war, but maybe it won't come to that. Conventional war is still bad-ask the Germans, who have huge mountains of rubble in their cities from WW2.) Right now, I'm not prepared. My mom won't let me grow a garden, or keep animals. She simply refuses to hurt any animal, even for food. I am working on paying down my dental bills, and hope to have them paid by December 2014. I hope to have my own land, all ready to go, by 2017. Defaulting now would mean that people who are aware but who can't prep the way they want will die.
Defaulting later means that maybe some will live. Even without war, a debt default means that currencies inflate heavenward, grocery stores run out of food, cities explode in riots. Eventually, crime becomes untenable as people with no future and no hope kill each other to survive. Argentina is probably the best example of this. In December 2001, the small middle class of that country found the banks closed one day. When they reopened, withdrawal limits were in place, dubbed "corralito" by locals. The same thing happened in Cyprus.
I have to believe that the politicians don't realize how bad it could get. Delaying the inevitable for one year, or five, or ten, won't help the majority, who will always be blind, stupid sheep. But maybe some will come to their senses, and prep. The game of chicken that is being played in Washington is already spooking the bankers. Last time that the politicians did this, interest rates for the undeveloped world stayed high for months, and buyers shied away from Treasuries for a while.
That brings me to another subject, the fact that Congress can't agree on anything except lining their own pockets. Democrats oppose everything Republicans do. Republicans oppose everything that Democrats do. Bipartisanship and compromise died unholy deaths in DC long ago, now each side wants the other to fail, just so they can point fingers and blame at each other. Republicans are so obsessed with destroying Obama that they're willing to play Russian Roulette with the human race just to achieve that goal. But hey, at election time each side can blame the other. Never mind that if one day they choose the chamber with the bullet, that there might not be a next election, or humans to vote in it.
It's a dead man's party
Who could ask for more
Everybody's coming
Leave your body at the door
-Oingo Boingo
As I write this, the world is anxiously watching a standoff between Barack Obama and John Boehner over the US debt limit. Boehner wants to force an abandonment of America's new, badly designed health care system, dubbed "Obamacare", in exchange for raising the debt limit and reopening the federal government, which has been shut down since October 1. Obama is demanding a "clean" resolution, without conditions. Republicans are insisting that defaulting on the debt won't be so bad. Message boards insist that we need to walk away from our debt and "get it over with".
The world in general has been loaded up with debt, and eventually this debt will lead to nuclear war and the end. Nobody disputes that. The only question is, fast or slow? Do we default now, or do we drag it out, hopefully giving people more time to prepare? (Although I fail to see how you "prepare" for a total nuke war, but maybe it won't come to that. Conventional war is still bad-ask the Germans, who have huge mountains of rubble in their cities from WW2.) Right now, I'm not prepared. My mom won't let me grow a garden, or keep animals. She simply refuses to hurt any animal, even for food. I am working on paying down my dental bills, and hope to have them paid by December 2014. I hope to have my own land, all ready to go, by 2017. Defaulting now would mean that people who are aware but who can't prep the way they want will die.
Defaulting later means that maybe some will live. Even without war, a debt default means that currencies inflate heavenward, grocery stores run out of food, cities explode in riots. Eventually, crime becomes untenable as people with no future and no hope kill each other to survive. Argentina is probably the best example of this. In December 2001, the small middle class of that country found the banks closed one day. When they reopened, withdrawal limits were in place, dubbed "corralito" by locals. The same thing happened in Cyprus.
I have to believe that the politicians don't realize how bad it could get. Delaying the inevitable for one year, or five, or ten, won't help the majority, who will always be blind, stupid sheep. But maybe some will come to their senses, and prep. The game of chicken that is being played in Washington is already spooking the bankers. Last time that the politicians did this, interest rates for the undeveloped world stayed high for months, and buyers shied away from Treasuries for a while.
That brings me to another subject, the fact that Congress can't agree on anything except lining their own pockets. Democrats oppose everything Republicans do. Republicans oppose everything that Democrats do. Bipartisanship and compromise died unholy deaths in DC long ago, now each side wants the other to fail, just so they can point fingers and blame at each other. Republicans are so obsessed with destroying Obama that they're willing to play Russian Roulette with the human race just to achieve that goal. But hey, at election time each side can blame the other. Never mind that if one day they choose the chamber with the bullet, that there might not be a next election, or humans to vote in it.
Friday, September 20, 2013
This is my first time blogging in months. It's likely nobody will read this, but I felt I had to comment on the latest wave of parents of autistic kids killing their offspring. A few months ago, the mother and grandmother of a Chicago boy with such severe autism that he had to be restrained every time he went to the hospital gave him a fatal dose of sleeping pills, and when that failed to kill him, stabbed him in the heart. A few days after CBS aired a report that was perceived as sympathetic to the killers, Kelli Stapleton of Michigan locked her daughter Issy in a van with two portable grills blazing, hoping to kill her with carbon monoxide. She nearly succeeded, but fell short. She is now in a rural jail in northern Michigan, charged with attempted murder and facing life without parole. When that was in the news, a mother of two kids, one autistic, one NT, drove from Arizona to California and poisoned her kids in a motel near Disneyland. Those kids both died.
The autistic community is split on these murders. Autistic adults generally want to stand the parents up against a wall and shoot them. There is no justification for these murders, they argue, and the sympathy extended to the killers only encourages a view that the disabled are not worth the trouble ("life unworthy of life", in German parlance) and encourages more murders. The parents of autistic kids generally want people to consider the enormous stress that the parents are under. In that view, the mother "snaps" under the pressure, and deserves our sympathy.
A mother killing her kid is an act that is so unnatural that it's inevitable that many will recoil in horror. The general view of autistics is that my mom could have killed me, and then I wouldn't be here. Reading the blogs of Kelli and her friend Lisa Sain, whose son Preston was nonverbal and impossible to control as he got older, one gets the impression that these mothers were gradually losing their sanity over the challenges of raising a severely autistic kid. Issy would hit her mother on the head until Kelli lost consciousness. Preston would hit his mom too, and strip off his clothes in public. Both kids had been given medication (risperidone?) that had the side effect of turning them into physical Gargantuas, huge for their age and impossible to control.
It seems that the general procedure for controlling an autistic kid having a meltdown is simply to sit on them until they become exhausted and give up. Teachers do it, parents do it. This is the exact WRONG thing to do. It only encourages the kid to be more violent, and stops working once they get older. What happens when it takes 3,4,5 people to hold down a massive 14 year old? And then there's Lovaas ABA, which seems to be a more advanced version of this. Videos from the behavioral institute where Issy went show staff holding her hands so she can't stim, holding her shoulders down so she can't get up. Audio is missing, so we don't know what they were saying. Eventually Issy loses it and starts beating one of the staff, and other staff members rush in and yank her off. The general rule is to *keep doing this* until the autistic stops rebelling. In other words, break them of their will like a wild horse. Can't break them? Kill them. Apparently being "normal" is so important that these kids must be stuffed into the mold at any and all costs, including murder.
Did nobody tell Lisa that Preston is taking off his clothes because of sensory issues? Did nobody tell the behavioral "specialists" that stimming and pacing is like breathing to an autistic? Did nobody warn Kelli Stapleton in 2003 that hey, one day you won't be able to sit on Issy to control her, and she'll kill you? There's a video from a Kalamazoo TV station where Kelli is asked, you think Issy will kill you one day, and she says, she WILL kill me one day! Kelli's view was much like that of an abused wife, and eventually a choice is made: me or her. Either Issy dies or I die. That common thread seems to run through these murders: years and years of ineffective and wrong "treatments", followed by murder in the belief that the kid will kill mom, and so the kid has to die first.
We don't know a lot about treating autistics. What we DO know is that it's a "defect", if you will, in the basic wiring of the brain. You CANNOT rewire an autistic brain! You can't use force to rewire them. You are only teaching the kid that violence is ok, and soon you have a violent 14 year old with 5 grown men trying to restrain her, one who beats mom into Level 2 Trauma and closed head traumatic brain injury. Eventually, the violence becomes too much, and the mom kills the kid. How about, instead of violence, trying a different solution? When the kid throws himself on the floor and screams, let him scream until he's screamed out, WITHOUT restraining him? Few of these kids start out with abuse and destruction from here to Sunday, usually it's a 3 year old rolling around on the floor screaming. The kid is held down instead, and learns to hit to be released. From there it just picks up steam until you have a violent kid.
My mom used to just let me have my tantrums when I was little. It was embarrassing: I would start screaming in the middle of Sunrise Mall, and mom would simply drag me to the fountain and watch me until I calmed down. It was 1977 and nobody knew anything about autism, people would come by and say "shut that kid up!" She seemed to know that she couldn't stop a meltdown. Teachers didn't try to hold me down in the early 80s. It worked. Why not try that before you have a human wrecking ball on your hands?
The autistic community is split on these murders. Autistic adults generally want to stand the parents up against a wall and shoot them. There is no justification for these murders, they argue, and the sympathy extended to the killers only encourages a view that the disabled are not worth the trouble ("life unworthy of life", in German parlance) and encourages more murders. The parents of autistic kids generally want people to consider the enormous stress that the parents are under. In that view, the mother "snaps" under the pressure, and deserves our sympathy.
A mother killing her kid is an act that is so unnatural that it's inevitable that many will recoil in horror. The general view of autistics is that my mom could have killed me, and then I wouldn't be here. Reading the blogs of Kelli and her friend Lisa Sain, whose son Preston was nonverbal and impossible to control as he got older, one gets the impression that these mothers were gradually losing their sanity over the challenges of raising a severely autistic kid. Issy would hit her mother on the head until Kelli lost consciousness. Preston would hit his mom too, and strip off his clothes in public. Both kids had been given medication (risperidone?) that had the side effect of turning them into physical Gargantuas, huge for their age and impossible to control.
It seems that the general procedure for controlling an autistic kid having a meltdown is simply to sit on them until they become exhausted and give up. Teachers do it, parents do it. This is the exact WRONG thing to do. It only encourages the kid to be more violent, and stops working once they get older. What happens when it takes 3,4,5 people to hold down a massive 14 year old? And then there's Lovaas ABA, which seems to be a more advanced version of this. Videos from the behavioral institute where Issy went show staff holding her hands so she can't stim, holding her shoulders down so she can't get up. Audio is missing, so we don't know what they were saying. Eventually Issy loses it and starts beating one of the staff, and other staff members rush in and yank her off. The general rule is to *keep doing this* until the autistic stops rebelling. In other words, break them of their will like a wild horse. Can't break them? Kill them. Apparently being "normal" is so important that these kids must be stuffed into the mold at any and all costs, including murder.
Did nobody tell Lisa that Preston is taking off his clothes because of sensory issues? Did nobody tell the behavioral "specialists" that stimming and pacing is like breathing to an autistic? Did nobody warn Kelli Stapleton in 2003 that hey, one day you won't be able to sit on Issy to control her, and she'll kill you? There's a video from a Kalamazoo TV station where Kelli is asked, you think Issy will kill you one day, and she says, she WILL kill me one day! Kelli's view was much like that of an abused wife, and eventually a choice is made: me or her. Either Issy dies or I die. That common thread seems to run through these murders: years and years of ineffective and wrong "treatments", followed by murder in the belief that the kid will kill mom, and so the kid has to die first.
We don't know a lot about treating autistics. What we DO know is that it's a "defect", if you will, in the basic wiring of the brain. You CANNOT rewire an autistic brain! You can't use force to rewire them. You are only teaching the kid that violence is ok, and soon you have a violent 14 year old with 5 grown men trying to restrain her, one who beats mom into Level 2 Trauma and closed head traumatic brain injury. Eventually, the violence becomes too much, and the mom kills the kid. How about, instead of violence, trying a different solution? When the kid throws himself on the floor and screams, let him scream until he's screamed out, WITHOUT restraining him? Few of these kids start out with abuse and destruction from here to Sunday, usually it's a 3 year old rolling around on the floor screaming. The kid is held down instead, and learns to hit to be released. From there it just picks up steam until you have a violent kid.
My mom used to just let me have my tantrums when I was little. It was embarrassing: I would start screaming in the middle of Sunrise Mall, and mom would simply drag me to the fountain and watch me until I calmed down. It was 1977 and nobody knew anything about autism, people would come by and say "shut that kid up!" She seemed to know that she couldn't stop a meltdown. Teachers didn't try to hold me down in the early 80s. It worked. Why not try that before you have a human wrecking ball on your hands?
Monday, May 20, 2013
ADHD in childhood linked to adult obesity
http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/20/18343200-adhd-in-childhood-linked-to-adult-obesity-study-finds?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=3
I was diagnosed with ADHD at age 9, and today I'm only beginning to lose weight. I find it hard to concentrate on cooking a meal, so for years I simply ate fast food, until I couldn't afford it anymore. By 2011 I was 325 lbs on a 5'7" frame. Right now I'm 298. I have Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure from neglecting my health for so long, and eating sugar whenever I felt like it. I even kept eating cake and candy AFTER being diagnosed with diabetes, to the point where my mom had to take away my debit card to curb my runaway spending. The weird thing is, I never spent on luxuries like some people who fill their houses with junk, I only bought food. I never "window shopped", but impulsive buys at the supermarket are a constant problem. Supermarkets are set up to facilitate impulsive buying of junk food, which makes it even harder for those with ADHD to control their diets.
http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/20/18343200-adhd-in-childhood-linked-to-adult-obesity-study-finds?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=3
I was diagnosed with ADHD at age 9, and today I'm only beginning to lose weight. I find it hard to concentrate on cooking a meal, so for years I simply ate fast food, until I couldn't afford it anymore. By 2011 I was 325 lbs on a 5'7" frame. Right now I'm 298. I have Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure from neglecting my health for so long, and eating sugar whenever I felt like it. I even kept eating cake and candy AFTER being diagnosed with diabetes, to the point where my mom had to take away my debit card to curb my runaway spending. The weird thing is, I never spent on luxuries like some people who fill their houses with junk, I only bought food. I never "window shopped", but impulsive buys at the supermarket are a constant problem. Supermarkets are set up to facilitate impulsive buying of junk food, which makes it even harder for those with ADHD to control their diets.
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