so grumpy.
i can't sleep, my mum is coming tomorrow god knows when, and i have an exam on friday that i have not studied for. i am exhausted, but my mind keeps racing. stupid race car mind. sometimes it is great, others, mmm, not so much.
i try to read something that i think will put me to sleep, like crime and punishment, but even that is too exciting for me. i love it. i even tried looking at people magazine (i stole a copy from work) but that isn't helping either. maybe some phonology will help. or poetry (joking suntlacrimae and abra).
speaking of poetry, last night at lecture we had a guest speaker come in and talk about speech therapy in adolescents. she has some of her autistic dudes write poetry because they often think in images and obsess over them. naturally, the poetry was fucking brilliant! she said the poets cant read or write, or dictate prose to her, but poetry flows from their minds. these are the type of autistic people who also are cognitively slow. she also read us something from a very highly functioning autistic boy, and it was also brilliant. apparently he claims he cannot write, that nobody taught him how, but the way he could set a mood and scene was amazing. he wrote about Bingy swamp where suzy cannot go (she always asks about it, but he wont show her where it is) and where the grinch fights with him over the best fishing spots. for those unfamilliar with the grinch, suzy is the little girl who makes his heart grow. Bingy swamp is apparently this boys own place (where he escapes to), and nobody else should ever be allowed there, except of course the grinch who can do whatever the fuck he wants. i know i am not doing his story justice, i am just delirious right now.
to sum up, autism is a very interesting thing, and to get into a person with autism's head can be awesome! it is trying to get them to think like other people that is difficult.
bla bla bla
sweet sleep come to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yawn
i think its because i did not get a kiss on the forehead like last night
i can't sleep, my mum is coming tomorrow god knows when, and i have an exam on friday that i have not studied for. i am exhausted, but my mind keeps racing. stupid race car mind. sometimes it is great, others, mmm, not so much.
i try to read something that i think will put me to sleep, like crime and punishment, but even that is too exciting for me. i love it. i even tried looking at people magazine (i stole a copy from work) but that isn't helping either. maybe some phonology will help. or poetry (joking suntlacrimae and abra).
speaking of poetry, last night at lecture we had a guest speaker come in and talk about speech therapy in adolescents. she has some of her autistic dudes write poetry because they often think in images and obsess over them. naturally, the poetry was fucking brilliant! she said the poets cant read or write, or dictate prose to her, but poetry flows from their minds. these are the type of autistic people who also are cognitively slow. she also read us something from a very highly functioning autistic boy, and it was also brilliant. apparently he claims he cannot write, that nobody taught him how, but the way he could set a mood and scene was amazing. he wrote about Bingy swamp where suzy cannot go (she always asks about it, but he wont show her where it is) and where the grinch fights with him over the best fishing spots. for those unfamilliar with the grinch, suzy is the little girl who makes his heart grow. Bingy swamp is apparently this boys own place (where he escapes to), and nobody else should ever be allowed there, except of course the grinch who can do whatever the fuck he wants. i know i am not doing his story justice, i am just delirious right now.
to sum up, autism is a very interesting thing, and to get into a person with autism's head can be awesome! it is trying to get them to think like other people that is difficult.
bla bla bla
sweet sleep come to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yawn
i think its because i did not get a kiss on the forehead like last night
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Thank you.