Abifae - Ciao Babies!

[Farmfresh]

We had one boy a few years back that was pretty darned mean to everybody, but could read ANYTHING you gave him. All he wanted in the whole wide world was to be left alone so he could read. SO we let him read!

Weird thing was he really bothered most teachers because they couldn't and didn't TEACH him how to read - he just could. We just let him learn and read and worked on him learning to tolerate others. He went on to middle school. I hope he continues to do well, but I haven't heard much. :/

We have another that is bi-lingual AND non-verbal. He is tough for us. Still he can do a lot of fairly hard work ... as long as you don't require him to talk about it.

Each person is so different and that is why I like my job - it keeps me thinking.

 

[abifae]

It sounds great FF

What made you get into working with non humans, anyhow? LOL

 

[Farmfresh]

I guess I have ALWAYS preferred non-humans!

I started by training horses. Then worked as a volunteer in Horse Therapy (I came one class away from being a certified NARAH instructor). Then I got involved in schools. (I originally applied as a recess monitor to as a stress free alternative to selling Real Estate. The district had other plans for me. )

I worked for 10 years with Behavior Disorders (9 of those years at a Day Treatment Alternative school). Believe me THEY were non-human as well!

Then I went to working with Autistic when my arthritis got so bad I felt I could no longer fight hard enough or run away fast enough , at the other place. I like where I am now, but I really miss the hard core meanies and crazies as well. :/

 

[abifae]

That's awesome.

My family cannot communicate with me because they hold too hard to what they want reality to be.

Auntie does okay because while she is grounded hard into this here-now she doesn't think this excludes other here-nows or there-thens.



No one does well with me unless they can let go of it all. I have no reference point to the places they all live.

In fact, the whole "abi is alive and must feed the body and work to make money" is only a working hypothesis. I have no proof it's true.

 

[Damummis]

That's awesome.

My family cannot communicate with me because they hold too hard to what they want reality to be.
Auntie does okay because while she is grounded hard into this here-now she doesn't think this excludes other here-nows or there-thens.



No one does well with me unless they can let go of it all. I have no reference point to the places they all live.

In fact, the whole "abi is alive and must feed the body and work to make money" is only a working hypothesis. I have no proof it's true.

Boy, I know what that is like.

Wow, it took me forever to get thru your list and the last few pages.

I am with you on the babies. Yuck. I am the person in the store that hears a baby screaming and I will hunt it down and tell the mom to leave. "Your baby is not happy and it is annoying the rest of us." That doesn't always go over big. :/

Hated, hated, hated school. I need to be outside.

I have a question for you.
Are you tactile defensive at all?

 

[Wifezilla]

I am totally and completely grounded in what most people would call reality. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy the travel stories of those who may have a foot on other plains of existence

There were a few instances over the years where groups of people have all been part of a mass hallucination of sorts. In one case a man thought he had a winning lottery ticket. He got all excited. Showed 10 other people. They "saw it" too. He showed me and I was like "Ummm sorry dude. Hate to burst your bubble, but you lose.".

I was right.

I don't see fairies or angels or vampires or ghosts. Reality just "is" for me. For some reason my reality doesn't seem to both Abi too much since she is forced by some cosmic force to have her body live in it

 

[MsPony]

So question, I've been wanting to discuss this with someone more knowledgable then I

A friend told me about this movie and he is autistic and won't speak. He forms a bond with horses and his parents take him to some Shaman in Tibet to "cure" him or communicate or whatever. At one point the kid speaks, the father asks him "what did you say?" But the kid was already moved on. Does he live "in the moment"?

 

[Wifezilla]

If you ask my son to repeat something because you didn't hear him or understand him, he gets really pissed off. Not sure what that is about exactly, but Abi will have some insight.

Max is VERY in the moment. He has 2 times. Now and "tomorrow". Everything not now is tomorrow

 

[dacjohns]

86. Is the glass half empty or half full? It's completely full. Part liquid, part gas. Sometimes solids in there too.



88. What's under your bed? Possibly a cat. Definitely carpet. There's an apartment under if you dig far enough but I doubt they'd appreciate my dropping in.

I like those answers.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

86. Is the glass half empty or half full? It's completely full. Part liquid, part gas. Sometimes solids in there too.



88. What's under your bed? Possibly a cat. Definitely carpet. There's an apartment under if you dig far enough but I doubt they'd appreciate my dropping in.

I like those answers.

I do too. I have always leaned a bit the direction.
I have a box that I live in, and if you try to reshape it, even a little bit, I feel like I am going to explode.