Things get better. As others have said in this thread Autism is viewed, at least in part, as a developmental disorder. My son, who is diagnosed with "High Functioning Autism" often strikes me has having the intellect of someone 1 or 2 years older than him and the emotional intelligence/behavior of someone 3 or 4 years younger than him. This leads to socially awkward moments when dealing with peers. He actually gets along quite well with younger kids. As he ages he keeps maturing, but he's just behind his peers.
My daughter is PDD-NOS which is just the big "other" category on the spectrum. She's a bit learning delayed. She's oppositional.
The key to success with both kids has been to find the right program/teachers. Teachers need to have autism training to know how to teach these kids. At one of the earlier schools we attended the principal actually suspended my son for a day for acting out. Later we were able to point the principal in the direction of some good autism training and now they know better how to deal with this situation.
It does get easier. You need to adapt. It's not your child's fault their autistic and it's not yours (beyond genetics anyway). You need to learn new parenting skills. You need to take respite when you can. Most importantly, you need to find a support network. Other parents of autistic kids are a great resource. There's a Dad's group in my area (there a lot more rare than the Mom's groups it seems).
Remember autism is a spectrum disorder. Starting with completely non-verbal nearly comatose people all the way up to people who might just be described as nerdy. Bill Gates, Isaac Newton, Einstein all had at least some of the signs of being on the spectrum. I think if you start looking at any highly successful person (Tiger Woods & Bill Clinton are springing to mind at the moment) you start to realize that they show some signs too. Non-autistics are called Neuro-Typicals (NT). I'e come to believe that NTs really are just that: typical. To be extraordinary, you are, by definition, not-typical. You have quirks. How many quirks and how large lead to your diagnosis along the spectrum. I think all men are created autistic. Some are just more autistic than others.
Sorry for being obnoxious. I guess that's the Asperger's talking.:)
As for Bill Gates. He's commonly cited as being a fairly clear example of a very high-functioning (obviously) spectrum resident. I've been in a room with him. I've watched him do his rocking thing and several other tics. Maybe it's like gaydar... you have to be one to know one. And I wasn't mentioning it as any sort of criticism. As several recent Wired articles have pointed out, Autistics are going to be in high demand in the future due to our ability to focus on repetitive tasks, enhanced analytic and observation skills, etc. Most people in IT are somewhere on the spectrum because those traits are rewarded within IT.
Well far be it for me to critique the Wikipedia, but Autism is a spectrum disorder. Hence the term, ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) that it goes by. I for instance have Aspergers. My son has HFA (High Functioning Autism) and my daughter has PDD-NOS. But, no, I probably don't know anything about it. Thanks for that. Fail.
BTW, sorry if this comes across as socially awkward. Cause, ya know, there's that.
What neurotypical folks may fail to realize is that Autism is a spectrum disorder. From what I've observed, most everyone who works in IT, at least in any technical capacity, resides on the Autism spectrum somewhere. From LFA to HFA to Aspergers to PDD-NOS to OCD to "quirky" to "nerdy"... etc. Pretty much you can substitute "geek" for "autistic" and be on safe ground. Bill Gates is autistic (clearly). Steve Jobs probably too but to a much less noticeable degree.
I'd tend to agree here. Buy a couple of blades. Implement vSphere with DRS and HA and possibly FT. Centralize all these core services. HA/FT will provide the fault tolerance at the core. Then spend on buffing redundant network links for remote sites and/or network capacity as needed. Simplify simplify. Minimize the number of VMs providing core services. Put as much as you can into a cloud.
Not sure why this is modded funny... unless I'm just not getting the joke, which is possible. I do believe several states are planning on switching to per-mile tax as MPGs continue to increase. It's a matter of selecting the right technology to measure road usage.
I wonder if this would be covered as part of that end of life counseling/planning in the new health care reform legislation. Do we all have an inalienable right to a final email?
In all seriousness, couldn't we take care of this by just detonating a small nuke (or maybe a large fuel-air bomb) in the middle of this "patch". Seems like it would clean things up nicely. As I understand, there's nothing around that would get damaged.
improve that 12 mpg to 18 mpg and now you need to replace a 30 mpg with a 180 MPG car (the EPA calculates the carbon-cost of an electric vehicle using our mix of power source to be roughly 120 mpg) to match the fuel savings.
Maybe the government could help. They could maybe give an incentive to people with old, inefficient cars to be used toward purchase of new efficient cars. Some sort of "cash for clunkers" type deal. Just a thought.
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Things get better. As others have said in this thread Autism is viewed, at least in part, as a developmental disorder. My son, who is diagnosed with "High Functioning Autism" often strikes me has having the intellect of someone 1 or 2 years older than him and the emotional intelligence/behavior of someone 3 or 4 years younger than him. This leads to socially awkward moments when dealing with peers. He actually gets along quite well with younger kids. As he ages he keeps maturing, but he's just behind his peers. My daughter is PDD-NOS which is just the big "other" category on the spectrum. She's a bit learning delayed. She's oppositional. The key to success with both kids has been to find the right program/teachers. Teachers need to have autism training to know how to teach these kids. At one of the earlier schools we attended the principal actually suspended my son for a day for acting out. Later we were able to point the principal in the direction of some good autism training and now they know better how to deal with this situation. It does get easier. You need to adapt. It's not your child's fault their autistic and it's not yours (beyond genetics anyway). You need to learn new parenting skills. You need to take respite when you can. Most importantly, you need to find a support network. Other parents of autistic kids are a great resource. There's a Dad's group in my area (there a lot more rare than the Mom's groups it seems). Remember autism is a spectrum disorder. Starting with completely non-verbal nearly comatose people all the way up to people who might just be described as nerdy. Bill Gates, Isaac Newton, Einstein all had at least some of the signs of being on the spectrum. I think if you start looking at any highly successful person (Tiger Woods & Bill Clinton are springing to mind at the moment) you start to realize that they show some signs too. Non-autistics are called Neuro-Typicals (NT). I'e come to believe that NTs really are just that: typical. To be extraordinary, you are, by definition, not-typical. You have quirks. How many quirks and how large lead to your diagnosis along the spectrum. I think all men are created autistic. Some are just more autistic than others.
Sorry for being obnoxious. I guess that's the Asperger's talking. :)
As for Bill Gates. He's commonly cited as being a fairly clear example of a very high-functioning (obviously) spectrum resident. I've been in a room with him. I've watched him do his rocking thing and several other tics. Maybe it's like gaydar... you have to be one to know one. And I wasn't mentioning it as any sort of criticism. As several recent Wired articles have pointed out, Autistics are going to be in high demand in the future due to our ability to focus on repetitive tasks, enhanced analytic and observation skills, etc. Most people in IT are somewhere on the spectrum because those traits are rewarded within IT.
Well far be it for me to critique the Wikipedia, but Autism is a spectrum disorder. Hence the term, ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) that it goes by. I for instance have Aspergers. My son has HFA (High Functioning Autism) and my daughter has PDD-NOS. But, no, I probably don't know anything about it. Thanks for that. Fail. BTW, sorry if this comes across as socially awkward. Cause, ya know, there's that.
What neurotypical folks may fail to realize is that Autism is a spectrum disorder. From what I've observed, most everyone who works in IT, at least in any technical capacity, resides on the Autism spectrum somewhere. From LFA to HFA to Aspergers to PDD-NOS to OCD to "quirky" to "nerdy"... etc. Pretty much you can substitute "geek" for "autistic" and be on safe ground. Bill Gates is autistic (clearly). Steve Jobs probably too but to a much less noticeable degree.
I'd tend to agree here. Buy a couple of blades. Implement vSphere with DRS and HA and possibly FT. Centralize all these core services. HA/FT will provide the fault tolerance at the core. Then spend on buffing redundant network links for remote sites and/or network capacity as needed. Simplify simplify. Minimize the number of VMs providing core services. Put as much as you can into a cloud.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
OK. So charge different rates per lb-mile. That was easy.
Not sure why this is modded funny... unless I'm just not getting the joke, which is possible. I do believe several states are planning on switching to per-mile tax as MPGs continue to increase. It's a matter of selecting the right technology to measure road usage.
We started with PC0001 and are now at PC7921. Someday we'll need to add another digit. This isn't really that hard a problem to solve.
I wonder if this would be covered as part of that end of life counseling/planning in the new health care reform legislation. Do we all have an inalienable right to a final email?
Prepare for the likelihood of Autism Spectrum Disorder children. If I knew that was in the offing I wouldn't've married a geek.
In all seriousness, couldn't we take care of this by just detonating a small nuke (or maybe a large fuel-air bomb) in the middle of this "patch". Seems like it would clean things up nicely. As I understand, there's nothing around that would get damaged.
improve that 12 mpg to 18 mpg and now you need to replace a 30 mpg with a 180 MPG car (the EPA calculates the carbon-cost of an electric vehicle using our mix of power source to be roughly 120 mpg) to match the fuel savings.
Maybe the government could help. They could maybe give an incentive to people with old, inefficient cars to be used toward purchase of new efficient cars. Some sort of "cash for clunkers" type deal. Just a thought.
Google isn't evil so this doesn't matter. They said so themsleves.
This system appears to be in need of simplification.