UndeadJournal??

Typing this from the library, where I am waiting to attend a talk by a paranormal investigator from the area. The new Hallowe'en header for the journal is *HOOT*! Freudian slip much? I kept typing "liverjournal" into the address bar. o.O?? I think I'd better lay off on hunting zombies in MxO, even though it *IS* the Hallowe'en event, though Sieges and her brother are having a blast blasting the armies of the undead rampaging in select sections of the Mega-City...

Doesn't seem like a day goes by...

...Without some know-it-all celebrity trying to belittle the reality I have to deal with. First Michael Savage, now Denis Leary:

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b64077_denis_leary_tries_defuel_his_autism_fire.html

The bell is already rung, pal. Sure, you can argue context, but a cold reading of certain paragraphs are enough to make the blood boil in any high-functioning autistic person who has had the bad luck to hear about it, and in anyone who loves or cares for an autistic person. There are such things as late diagnoses, just as there are late diagnoses of other, more serious and even life-threatening conditions. I've heard of people being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in their early twenties, and the doctors initially thought it was asthma or chronic bronchitis. I have had two health-care professionals and a job coach with two autistic sons tell me it's Asperger's Syndrome. With an IQ of 135 on the Terman Index, I hardly qualify as "stupid" and in juggling work at a job I'm barely suited for, housework, and trying to get my stories published, I hardly qualify as "lazy" either. Try living with my brain in your skull for twenty-four hours; you'd shoot yourself over the sensory overload issues. For the longest time, my mother thought I was bipolar, but that's not the case since I'm not a risk-taker (hell, if I've been in a painful situation, my instinct is to avoid that situation in case it happens again) and I don't have the hallucinatory aspects either.

I suppose the uptick in cases of diabetes just means there's more picky eaters, or the uptick in asthma means the sufferers are just tantruming two year olds who hold their breath. How about cancer? The people with malignant teratomas eating into them are just attention sluts, by your standards. You're not funny, Mr. Leary, and that bad karma is going to come up and bite you in the keester someday.

Life is tough enough just living with this condition. And then I get mooncalves like this adding to it.

Which is why this woman gives me hope: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1128012