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"And—importantly—how much time do we spend teaching neurotypical students the skills they need to be better friends to their disabled peers? On creating a classroom where the neurotypical kids accommodate the neurodiverse ones? We have been asking our autistic students to accommodate us, for decades. It’s not fair. It’s not okay. It needs to stop."

Answer to the first two questions: one hour. At the edges of the curriculum.

And your section on Behaviour was great. Especially with the Greene emphasis.

There's a lot of things that Special Education dislikes! So easy to say and think that it dislikes its students - the reason that it is there.

How important it is to respect no and understand pain.

And who does the accommodation.

So there is an AASPIRE in Australia now!

"However, if the dynamic of autistic burnout really is related to spending more resources coping than one has, I'm not sure the real leverage in avoiding burnout resides with the autistic person alone. Especially because a number of the strategies people have to avoid or recover from burnout involve being able to act more autistic, being accepted as autistic, and getting support and accommodations--all things that require the cooperation of others."

Yes - this co-operation is really important.

And good point about how resolving burnout situations does not and should not lie with the autistic person - or autistic people - alone.

Most people are willing to co-operate when they know how and see what is needed.

I am thinking that how we deal with it is like bullying - where we try to accept that it is not the student or worker's responsibility alone.

And disasters and environmental change - we can learn from that too. The human resources we put in.

Christina's work on CF/IDS is very interesting as well.

Direct address is better.

"One of the themes that might be most surprising to the general public is that some things they might think are good for autistic people—learning to emulate mainstream social behavior, appearing to “overcome” autistic traits, things like that—may actually be hurtful in the long-term. I think it makes sense if a person thinks about it—if you were asked to pretend to be something you’re not constantly out of fear of negative, possibly life-threatening consequences, and it was very difficult to do, how long could you keep it up? I think it might surprise some people how close autistic burnout is in a lot of ways to professional burnout, or to caregiver burnout, or something else that they might have experienced themselves."

I learnt first about professional burnout and caregiver burnout in the 1980s when this first became a big issue that people in valued roles talked about in the context of their lives.

This incidental and intentional learning is very important, Dora!

Something that may help especially children and teenagers - I am sure they see when a younger or more vulnerable person in their group is being pushed beyond their abilities and feel overwhelmed when they cannot support [the child or teenager witnessing this].

Also they may feel helpless when a person significantly older than them cannot do the things they used to do which made the relationship happen, and now they do more work.

Fergus - this is a great interview!

Hello:

Is this where "Don't be a wally with water" came from?

The headline shows us what health care workers pay attention to.

It is a problem, of course, when a significant population is under-served on any level.

Starting and contributing to the multi-faceted conversation you seek:

I take 3, 4, 7 and 8 as facts.

I remember encountering ilunga for the first time in 2004, on a new words list of that year.

It was on a "words/concepts which are difficult to translate" list.

Meraki and pochemuchka are also wonderful words.

As for cualacino, what a great one. Do they also have a word for the liquid which hangs at the end of the glass?

I like the way you can select every and any Crows player.

That would be terrific: especially if the book were in a Spanish translation and/or there were rights to it.

Ah, word of mouth!

There are usually big book stalls and markets.

Hola! Points 3, 4 and 5 are important.

How well I remember reading one of the last chapters of Sybil, when R (Sybil's boy friend) talked about "Complejos Americanos": American complexes, broadly translated.

This year in November, the third World Autism Congress will be in Monterey. It would be great to get and distribute materials from there.

One of the resources also is To love is to be happy with by Barry Kaufman, which talks about Robertito Soto.

Gracias.