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Why We Need to Educate All Children about Neurodiversity and Autism
Today, I was walking my son to school and we met up with a little girl from his class. She kissed her mum goodbye after crossing the last road and we walked up to the school gate together (I have a handover with a teacher for my autistic son, but other children enter the school by themselves.) My son skipped on ahead and the girl turned to me and said, “Your son is very weird sometimes.”
By Hayley Hunkin5 years ago in Longevity
NHS Launches Covid 19 Track And Trace App
One of the main parts of the UK government's defence against the Covid 19 virus is a new contact tracing app which helps identify people you may have been in contact with who have the virus. When people are experiencing Covid symptoms, they must record it in their app to ensure that other people's apps can recognise this and let other people know that they have to take appropriate action and self isolate. The app has many different features which help people look after themselves when they are out and about. These include:
By Ashish Prabhu5 years ago in Longevity
Get Ahead of COVID-19
Like restless children on a car trip, we've reached the point of the pandemic when we're all asking "Are we there yet?" We all want to reach the end of this pandemic and the restrictions that it has brought. We want to be able to go to the movies again, to walk through stores without masks and to gather with friends and families without worrying who will be the next one to become infected. Business owners and entrepreneurs are desperate to figure out when they can get back to normal, and what it's going to look like when they get there.
By Matthew Woodall5 years ago in Longevity
My Precious Scars
For lack of a better, more all-encompassing word, I suppose you could call me a klutz. I have memorized the symptoms of a concussion, which let me tell you, is a lot more impressive if you know how many concussions I’ve had. I can easily tell you what pain medications you can and cannot combine, to the point that I’ve had friends shoot me a text to make sure they’re safe to overlap tylenol and motrin. My phone now automatically joins every urgent care wifi network in the greater Lansing area, and I have enough splints and braces piled up to last a lifetime, despite the fact that literally a year and a half ago I tossed out over 50% of the collection I had. And just like the crotchety old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn in a movie, I can tell you if it’s going to rain without fail thanks to at least seven different aching spots on my person at any given time. I’ve joked that I’m trying to get exposed to enough radiation to develop superpowers, because how cool would invisibility be, right? Or that I’m just trying to become the strongest (what doesn’t kill you is supposed to make you stronger, according to Kanye West and Kelly Clarkson), and that my “bad” luck of being accident prone actually just means that I have the really really good luck of, you know, still being alive.
By Caitlin Pingel5 years ago in Longevity
Sunday Funday
After the morning visit with the porcelain throne I stare in to the mirror, washing my hands thoroughly before reaching for a bamboo toothbrush. Gotta get the grossness of the cigarette off of my tongue and teeth. My brows furrow as I scold myself internally.. Before Halloween I will stop this disgusting habit. Different coping mechanisms are available and I need to hold myself accountable.
By SynneR De'Viant Khrystian5 years ago in Longevity
SURPRISE
I miss my flight to leave back to Arizona. My first time ever to miss a flight. So now my entire day will be lagging, I call the Q.C. Manager, she says I'll see you when you get here. Everyone is happy I'm back to work, I'm the head of Quality Control Managers' right-hand man/woman in this case; as well as being the Document Control Specialist, just some big title that's all that is. I do not like being "on-call" after I leave work to go home. I've hired on with Moll Medical, div. of Moll Industries Inc. they've since closed the doors in Tucson and possibly even in Texas, but I was lucky enough to be hired on to move the Costa Mesa location that was manufacturing devices for 22 years to the Tucson location, the only team players were the Plant Manager that actually made the move with the company. Nobody else from California moved with it, so, all the new hires that were sent to Costa Mesa were housed at an extended stay for 6 months, it was a nice little vaca away from Tucson. The Little Vietnamese woman that trained me didn't want me to leave Carol, she even offered me her home to stay with her & her husband if I wanted to, she was such a sweetheart. She was adopted to a Christian family as a refugee and raised in Seattle, WA. She said at the first meeting to me, I reminded her of her stepsister. That sounded so weird. But, look at all the celebrities adopting kids from other countries. It's not that weird really.
By dees Hintz5 years ago in Longevity
