The houseguest that FINALLY FREAKIN' LEFT! WOOOT!- Page 13

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:03am

I don't know if she did a wig on The L Word or not.




She is 45, though. Might be kinda silly up against Mary Kate. lol

Updated On: 9/20/06 at 12:03 AM

[blueroses]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:06am

What about "the autistic child who sees everything but is unable to communicate..."

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:07am

The autistic child who sees everything but is unable to communicate - ?

Is Haley Joe Osment too old by now?

"I see weaselly people."

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:08am

What about one of the Culkin kids? I'm sure there's still a young one among them.

JG2: The age difference doesn't matter. This is melodrama after all.

Updated On: 9/20/06 at 12:08 AM

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:09am

Well, he is a chubby ADORABLE redhead. No child actor is this cute. If he didn't have autism, he would be taking Hollywood by storm. He can just play himself!

[blueroses]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:09am

Probably!

You know, the twin boys who play Sam and David on 7th Heaven act as if they are actually autistic, so that could be a real plus.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:10am

My wife worked with those kids years ago and she found them very nice!

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:11am

Wait.. are Sam and Dave(the characters) autistic or do the actors just seem like they are?

[blueroses]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:13am

No, they're not autistic. It was just me, being a bitch, commenting on their wooden acting.

"Well, he is a chubby ADORABLE redhead. No child actor is this cute."

I know he's thin, but...JailyardGuy?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:16am

Jaily's back to thin? Man, that boy yo-yos!

Updated On: 9/20/06 at 12:16 AM

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:17am

heh.

Okay, bedtime for me. Goodnight my friends. :P

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:21am

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[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 12:22am

JG2: Lock your bedroom door and prop a chair against it for good measure!

Updated On: 9/20/06 at 12:22 AM

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 1:00am

"The autistic child who sees everything but is unable to communicate - ?"

JG2 I'm trying hard to resist, but I really wanna give a lesson on person first language. I need strength!

Posted: 9/20/06 at 1:11am

i want a grease bullet.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 1:11am

Jim Sinclair is an autism rights activist and the coordinator of Autism Network International.

WHY I DISLIKE "PERSON FIRST" LANGUAGE
Jim Sinclair

I am not a "person with autism." I am an autistic person. Why does this distinction matter to me?

1) Saying "person with autism" suggests that the autism can be separated from the person. But this is not the case. I can be separated from things that are not part of me, and I am still be the same person. I am usually a "person with a purple shirt," but I could also be a "person with a blue shirt" one day, and a "person with a yellow shirt" the next day, and I would still be the same person, because my clothing is not part of me. But autism is part of me. Autism is hard-wired into the ways my brain works. I am autistic because I cannot be separated from how my brain works.

2) Saying "person with autism" suggests that even if autism is part of the person, it isn't a very important part. Characteristics that are recognized as central to a person's identity are appropriately stated as adjectives, and may even be used as nouns to describe people: We talk about "male" and "female" people, and even about "men" and "women" and "boys" and "girls," not about "people with maleness" and "people with femaleness." We describe people's cultural and religious identifications in terms such as "Russian" or "Catholic," not as "person with Russianity" or "person with Catholicism." We describe important aspects of people's social roles in terms such as "parent" or "worker," not as "person with offspring" or "person who has a job." We describe important aspects of people's personalities in terms such as "generous" or "outgoing," not as "person with generosity" or "person with extroversion." Yet autism goes deeper than culture and learned belief systems. It affects how we relate to others and how we find places in society. It even affects how we relate to our own bodies. If I did not have an autistic brain, the person that I am would not exist. I am autistic because autism is an essential feature of me as a person.

3) Saying "person with autism" suggests that autism is something bad--so bad that is isn't even consistent with being a person. Nobody objects to using adjectives to refer to characteristics of a person that are considered positive or neutral. We talk about left-handed people, not "people with left-handedness," and about athletic or musical people, not about "people with athleticism" or "people with musicality." We might call someone a "blue-eyed person" or a "person with blue eyes," and nobody objects to either descriptor. It is only when someone has decided that the characteristic being referred to is negative that suddenly people want to separate it from the person. I know that autism is not a terrible thing, and that it does not make me any less a person. If other people have trouble remembering that autism doesn't make me any less a person, then that's their problem, not mine. Let them find a way to remind themselves that I'm a person, without trying to define an essential feature of my personhood as something bad. I am autistic because I accept and value myself the way I am.

Copyright (c) 1999 Jim Sinclair

http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/person_first.htm

Updated On: 9/20/06 at 01:11 AM

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 1:24am

Son, I don't think it really matters. I have met people that want to be called autistic. I have met people who believe it should be a "person with autism." Some people feel that the former is wrong, while some don't. It's all a matter of opinion, I guess.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:34am

Good night, JG2.
Maybe the houseguest will be gone by morning?

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 9:02am

Nope. She is staying until Monday. (at least)

[RobbO]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 9:08am

actually, she much more prefers to be called "the guest of the house" if you please.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 9:20am

I heard she wants to be called Domestic Goddess.

[RobbO]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 9:21am

jersey or the guest of the house?

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 9:25am

"Rathie, she is 60!"

Dear Auntie Rath has ALWAYS loved younger women...

SM2, if I ever see you in a dark alley, you are dead.

I KNOW you did not just call me fat, you f*ck. I will CUT YOU!

Rath, hold my earrings.

Updated On: 9/20/06 at 09:25 AM

[blueroses]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 9:26am

"She is staying until Monday. (at least)"

With an emphasis on the at least!

[RobbO]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 9:31am

yeah, she didn't specify which monday. i'm betting on monday 2016.