Apr 6:THERE IS NO SCHOOL UNIFORM IN THE SHETLAND ISLANDS, ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN COUNCIL !!
Question remains how effectively they have prevented there being informal uniforms effected by peer pressure. But as regards formal uniforms, their own Executive Manager of Additional Support Needs and Early Years says "we do not have a school uniform policy in our schools, and pupils are free to wear what they wish.
Our teachers receive training on strategies to support our pupils with autism, which includes awareness of sensory issues."
Like the case of sensory issue which Luke Beardon cited in his address to the NAS conference in Aberdeen on Mar 27, of an autistic man with a shorts sensitivity who he had met through the NAS, who was prevented being able to focus on any exams and had his school outcome destroyed entirely by a trousers uniform that made his knees feel "on fire." A so clear obvious abuse that I am circulating it as the inescapable clincher against uniforms.
Apr 27: Glasgow too. "confirm we have no policy or school rule that would prevent the wearing of shorts". But again NO WORD on the critical biggie of preventing of PEER GROUP oppression, by allowing every pupil to opt out of any class or social circle who would persecute their personal choice by the undemocratic ape means of RIBALDRY.
Monday, April 6, 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
the autism charities' corruption will be a cause of homicide by hair length.
THE CORRUPTION OF THE BIG AUTISM CHARITIES HAS ALLOWED THE FOLLOWING TO HAPPEN.
How so, when this is not about an autistic person? Because sensory issues in autism prove a biological humanitarian case against dress codes and uniforms, any at all ever, by reason of their biological harm to autistic people's bodies, and because this includes the unidentified or undiagnosed of us, dress codes can only be kept away from us by being kept away from THE WHOLE OF SOCIETY. So our biological situation liberates everyone else, NTs too, from dress codes.
This alert comes form the LGBT campaign All Out. After fleeing violence in Nigeria 10 years ago, Aderonke Apata applied for asylum. But in her latest hearing last week, a Home Office barrister argued that she couldn’t be a lesbian because “Lesbians only have short hair. And they don’t have children.” Because Aderonke used to have long hair and has children she can’t possibly be a “real” lesbian.
They could decide Aderonke’s fate at any moment: we have a critical window to speak out before Aderonke is sent back to Nigeria where she could be killed or jailed. The Home Office is breaking its own rules, which say that stereotyping the lives and looks of LGBT folks is not allowed. A huge public outcry in the next few days will push Home Secretary Theresa May to stop Aderonke’s deportation. Sign now to help stop life-threatening deportations based on idiotic stereotypes: go.allout.org/en/a/aderonke_hearing
The big autism charities, who speak only for themselves with no accountability towards us who they purport to speak for, have chosen to fit in comfortably with what politicians want to hear. It is knowingly child assault that school uniforms still exist this long into the time of autism knowledge, and child endangerment for any autism charity to choose not to speak out so. They are directly to blame for the discriminatory LIFE endangerment of Aderonke and LGBT asylum seekers. A shift by society into a humanitarian awareness against dress codes would have destroyed the concept of using an appearance based argument in an asylum case, long before this case ever happened.
How so, when this is not about an autistic person? Because sensory issues in autism prove a biological humanitarian case against dress codes and uniforms, any at all ever, by reason of their biological harm to autistic people's bodies, and because this includes the unidentified or undiagnosed of us, dress codes can only be kept away from us by being kept away from THE WHOLE OF SOCIETY. So our biological situation liberates everyone else, NTs too, from dress codes.
This alert comes form the LGBT campaign All Out. After fleeing violence in Nigeria 10 years ago, Aderonke Apata applied for asylum. But in her latest hearing last week, a Home Office barrister argued that she couldn’t be a lesbian because “Lesbians only have short hair. And they don’t have children.” Because Aderonke used to have long hair and has children she can’t possibly be a “real” lesbian.
They could decide Aderonke’s fate at any moment: we have a critical window to speak out before Aderonke is sent back to Nigeria where she could be killed or jailed. The Home Office is breaking its own rules, which say that stereotyping the lives and looks of LGBT folks is not allowed. A huge public outcry in the next few days will push Home Secretary Theresa May to stop Aderonke’s deportation. Sign now to help stop life-threatening deportations based on idiotic stereotypes: go.allout.org/en/a/aderonke_hearing
The big autism charities, who speak only for themselves with no accountability towards us who they purport to speak for, have chosen to fit in comfortably with what politicians want to hear. It is knowingly child assault that school uniforms still exist this long into the time of autism knowledge, and child endangerment for any autism charity to choose not to speak out so. They are directly to blame for the discriminatory LIFE endangerment of Aderonke and LGBT asylum seekers. A shift by society into a humanitarian awareness against dress codes would have destroyed the concept of using an appearance based argument in an asylum case, long before this case ever happened.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
useful consumer site suddenly annoyingly closes
It is an emotional and consumer blow that an exceptionally sensible website with a simple empowering concept is closing down. The "Fix my transport" site www.fixmytransport.com.
It's all because of site hosting and maintaining. The way that shifts as projects diversify and their time commitments shift. The web still has this infuriating flaw, that to be good democratic and user-empowering does not bed a site in to the certainty of lasting.
Using that site helped me in motivating the council to take the supported bus route 63 (Gyle to South Queensferry) away from Horsburgh, whose shoddy standards included simply cancelling buses without rep-placement if they broke down. On an hourly service, and there was a case where they visibly used another bus to deliver staff from their depot to deal with the breakdown but not put the bus actually onto the service for the folks who had been waiting an hour.
When Lothian buses took over, they reinstated the Sunday service that Horsburgh had found unviable and dropped years before - and it seems that just by running it better they have found it viable enough now to increase the evening service, on all 7 days, as well as the day frequency during the week.
It shows the positive public empowerment at stake having a facility like "fix my transport", and now it's going. Credit also Queensferry Community Council, for its local response to the issue, but they did not make it publicly findable knowledge, it was Fix My Transport which served for that. We need to bother to organise a similar sort of consumer info, for spectrum folks, through ANS. An idea that has been raised before and has not yet taken off, as it needs starter contributions, like this 63 bus item could have been one, to get it going.
Maurice Frank
It's all because of site hosting and maintaining. The way that shifts as projects diversify and their time commitments shift. The web still has this infuriating flaw, that to be good democratic and user-empowering does not bed a site in to the certainty of lasting.
Using that site helped me in motivating the council to take the supported bus route 63 (Gyle to South Queensferry) away from Horsburgh, whose shoddy standards included simply cancelling buses without rep-placement if they broke down. On an hourly service, and there was a case where they visibly used another bus to deliver staff from their depot to deal with the breakdown but not put the bus actually onto the service for the folks who had been waiting an hour.
When Lothian buses took over, they reinstated the Sunday service that Horsburgh had found unviable and dropped years before - and it seems that just by running it better they have found it viable enough now to increase the evening service, on all 7 days, as well as the day frequency during the week.
It shows the positive public empowerment at stake having a facility like "fix my transport", and now it's going. Credit also Queensferry Community Council, for its local response to the issue, but they did not make it publicly findable knowledge, it was Fix My Transport which served for that. We need to bother to organise a similar sort of consumer info, for spectrum folks, through ANS. An idea that has been raised before and has not yet taken off, as it needs starter contributions, like this 63 bus item could have been one, to get it going.
Maurice Frank
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
draw the line
Not published by the Metro. Do you find that predictable?
" Though cartoons should be free to criticise harmdoers, they should not be free to inflict personal harm themselves. Hence, unless you want to risk being sued for contributing to suicides, you should ban and refuse to publish cartoons like today's [Friday] Pearls Before Swine, gloating over the spectacle of unjust social attitudes causing loneliness. "
Je suis caring.
" Though cartoons should be free to criticise harmdoers, they should not be free to inflict personal harm themselves. Hence, unless you want to risk being sued for contributing to suicides, you should ban and refuse to publish cartoons like today's [Friday] Pearls Before Swine, gloating over the spectacle of unjust social attitudes causing loneliness. "
Je suis caring.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Why Psychiatry Holds Enormous Power in Society Despite Losing Scientific Credibility
www.alternet.org/why-psychiatry-holds-enormous-power-society-despite-losing-scientific-credibility
by Bruce Levine."In our increasingly fear-based society, psychiatry meets our own increasing needs for coercion."
"Influential “thought leader” psychiatrists and major psychiatry institutions, by their own recent admissions, have been repeatedly wrong about illness/disorder validity, biochemical causes and drug treatments. In several cases, they have been discovered to be on the take from drug companies, yet continue to be taken seriously by the mainstream media."
Monday, December 29, 2014
Child adoption: parents that had been through this system were telling me to run away leave the country
"there is a vast amount of money given to councils to get children under 5 adopted. Before I got involved in it I wouldn't have believed that you could have a child removed when it hasn't been abused. My son was put on a protection plan before he was born"
"When I was pregnant with my son, parents that had been through this system were telling me to run away leave the country because child services would make sure my baby was taken away regardless one way or another. Of course I didn't believe them at the time."
www.assupportgrouponline.org/apps/blog/entries/show/42961801-a-s-s-g-o-christmas-message-d
- a case from England. From the mother's own siteASSGO. Aspie and OCD with an alarming and morally disturbing story of social services constantly on her back ever since a single past event. It's a reminder of Christine MacVicar's flight to protect an adult son too.
"When I was pregnant with my son, parents that had been through this system were telling me to run away leave the country because child services would make sure my baby was taken away regardless one way or another. Of course I didn't believe them at the time."
www.assupportgrouponline.org/apps/blog/entries/show/42961801-a-s-s-g-o-christmas-message-d
- a case from England. From the mother's own siteASSGO. Aspie and OCD with an alarming and morally disturbing story of social services constantly on her back ever since a single past event. It's a reminder of Christine MacVicar's flight to protect an adult son too.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Trefoil
www.facebook.com/pages/Trefoil/619203181449072
The FB page of Trefoil, a "working Asperger group", a self-employment project trying to start up, crafts and gardening. Seeking a grassroots level economy and making the point that it should be made easier to do. Arguing that such projects should be encouraged "to help take the unsustainable pressure off social services".
Link from James Smith a friend of ELAS from Teesside.
The FB page of Trefoil, a "working Asperger group", a self-employment project trying to start up, crafts and gardening. Seeking a grassroots level economy and making the point that it should be made easier to do. Arguing that such projects should be encouraged "to help take the unsustainable pressure off social services".
Link from James Smith a friend of ELAS from Teesside.
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