Acceptance, Autism and Independence

I have never seen Rain Man all the way through. The reason has nothing to do with the portrayal of autism spectrum disorders or savants or other labels attached to Dustin Hoffman’s character. When it came out, I had no interest in seeing it because the notion of one character redeeming himself while using another character just isn’t something that major Hollywood productions do well these days.

Our First Concert with Bobs and Lolo

This may be uncomfortable for some to read: I listen to some of my twins’ music even when they aren’t here.

When my oldest daughter was younger, from time to time I would play Bananaphone by Raffi. There were some really lovely songs on that cd.

These days I pop in Bobs and Lolo, specifically Action Packed. Rachel loves dancing to the music. It is such a happy and lovely cd for all of us. It melts my heart when Rachel sings “Something Special” to Daniel and I tear up a bit when I sing it to them.

Twitter, A Great Dating Site

Months ago I saw a tweet that made me howl. “LinkenIn is a lousy dating site. All anybody talks about is what they do for a living.”

Earlier this week I posted something on that behemoth social media site about twitter as a dating site. Immediately people thought I was being sarcastic or humourous. The truth is that I don’t share with people how great Twitter is as a dating site because then people will stop posting rants about politics, gun control, human stupidity, autism, fundraising and great moments in Polish history. Yes, these are all interests of mine and they would get edged out by people trying to pick people up.