Autism and Aspergers in kids
The absolutely best book I've read on this is Clare Sainsbury's Martian in the Playground. Can't recommend it highly enough.
My son's lovely post is here
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The use of piracy to describe ’sharing things online outside of the terms of the license’ is insane – it bears no relationship to anything that could previously be called piracy. We might as well call people who download stuff off the internet highwaymen, or bounty-hunters or any other such anachronistic loaded term that means nothing in a modern context and sheds no light on the transaction taking place…
(the piracy ad on the IT Crowd always makes me laugh – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
As it relates to Kester’s analogy, he’s kind of caught in the middle – the ‘glamour’ of a Robin Hood take on it, but tangled up with the modern nonsense use of the word piracy that doesn’t really shed light on anything. the Robin Hood bit is great – I love the idea of a small, mobile, skilled team of morally driven ‘raiders’ re-appropriating the good stuff from institutions that seek to keep progressives/thinkers/re-claimers or whatever out…
I guess there are other interesting metaphors to do with ‘land’ and intellectual space that could draw on The Diggers, or any of the other wonderful instances in the history of these isles of peasant revolt, right up to Reclaim the Streets and the Climate Camp lot
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Well you know, I really like the way Kester uses unexpected analogies to stir things up – I guess the thing is that you can’t drive an analogy too far – it starts to fall apart if you load too much weight on it. But I think the “startle” factor makes it work just for th point he’s trying to make, and that’s clever and useful.
while I really enjoyed/affirm allot of Pete’s and Kester’s writings and the ‘the subversion of blocked orthodoxy?’ that has been going on in the emerging/alt church scene I think Richard has hit upon a fairly important question.
I worry that when you look at the emerging church you see white, apple, wealth, male, literate and educated. If power is being unblocked it does not seem it’s being unblocked very far.
There is a danger that in playing the games of power the subversion is happening in the wrong way’s. It seems this is one of the few common grounds of both the American and UK emerging scene’s although there has been a more intentionality (although many still are not happy with how far this has gone) in the US than over hear.
History tends to teach that when power is wrestled from one body to another that very little tends to change – in the act of wresting it seems the principality’s and powers tend to stay in place while the face of him seated in the place of power may have changed. However when power is given away both in submission and sharing power in generative way’s maybe there is hope for difference and opportunity