Rinarium

Me: I can't think of anything to say that doesn't make me sound like a 70s anti-war hippie... i wish this was something we could solve digitally or financially or something... 1: Yeah, I don’t like war either, I just don’t understand how someone can be so stupid. Me: That's a strongly subjective statement. (also extremely vague. Am I the person who is "so stupid"? Not likely, but if so, why???) 1: Well, yeah, it’s subjective of course. And obviously, [National Leader P]. 2: Power makes anyone stupid. Me: I doubt it's stupidity. You don't acquire power by being stupid, our recent president's bearing notwithstanding - it could have been one hell of an act. You acquire power by being selfish, and every war or invasion I've ever researched has had a significant profit margin for someone very close to the people in charge. That's not a stupid reason to go to war - although it's intensely selfish. I don't agree with the morals and...

I wanted to share a couple Android apps I've found to be helpful on days that I'm overwhelmed (nonverbal). Regardless of how thoroughly an autistic person learns to speak, there will be days where it really costs too many spoons to make words come out with proper enunciation, especially in order. So, apps like these are essential for austistic adults, if only because many people are too lazy to communicate with sincerity. There are many such apps, but these two are free and highly configurable. Kids may prefer apps that use more/larger pictures, but once they develop a larger "inner vocabulary" the picture boards won't be suitable. I remember clearly when I was a kid, because I couldn't say the words I was reading, my mother assumed I didn't know them, that somehow I was fooling all my teachers into thinking i was more intelligent than i actually was because I was somehow cheating on the book reports I was turning in. She constantly made me feel as if ever...