The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

.... in the UK there is a broad drive to make libraries autism friendly.

Really?
I went off them when "SILENCE" was removed!



They're now closer to being a nursery than a library in a lot of instances.

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

Hope you don't mind me asking Sue, but what solution did you arrive at for future exams?

I'm interested in solutions as in the UK there is a broad drive to make libraries autism friendly.

Small room exams where he was either alone or only one or two others alongside using a laptop.

He has the same arrangements for his January exams at university too.

With libraries, it is more awkward. Joe also didn't like deathly quiet areas either and it would provoke a tourettes like reaction, the other issue is that no matter what you do, it will not suit everyone on the spectrum.

For what it is worth, I don't agree with all the autism friendly things, it may make things slightly more comfortable when they are children but it does them absolutely no good for preparing them or giving them the coping strategies for adulthood when they will be too old to access them.

Pyxis

JUST STARTED ON BBC 2

"The Lake District: A wild year"





A few mins in so far and stunning photography!

Are you watching, Chris?

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Really?
I went off them when "SILENCE" was removed!



They're now closer to being a nursery than a library in a lot of instances.

The awful thing is that that's the only way they'll survive.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's known children, of a known neighbour, your choice.

These are random strangers' children, from the next road along ... and they are the children who let themselves into the new build next door early one evening and turned on/left the garden tap running full .... which I went over and turned off and got another neighbour to keep an eye out..... if I'd not heard it, it would've run for days.

This is the trouble with "random kids". This isn't "playing", it's "looking for places to be naughty in and looking for naughty things to do" - and round the side of my house there's opportunity to be naughty and "out of sight".

I caught that little lad standing near my car throwing stones over the fence into his road's parking area. He couldn't have seen where they'd land. I don't want stone throwers loitering around being a nuisance.... getting up to naughty things.

They already have, therefore, a track record for letting themselves in through people's garden gates and doing things they shouldn't be doing, in places they shouldn't be.

I should add, maybe, that once they're "out of sight" ... there's plenty to fiddle with, including my tap, climbing over my fence, my gas box/cupboard and my wall-mounted postbox. Things I don't want anybody fiddling with .... in MY garden.

Oh absolutely. I wouldn't like that, and I'm sure nobody would. I would be pulling out all the stops to prevent recurrences of that kind of behaviour. But I wouldn't mind at all if there were basketball noises, for example, which clearly cause you distress. But in both cases - both objectively objectionable behaviour and also behaviour that is subjectively distressing to you - I am trying to encourage to you do something proactive about it, because I fear that merely hoping for things to change is not going to end up with a happy PN. And we all want you to feel happy in your home.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

JUST STARTED ON BBC 2
"The Lake District: A wild year"

A few mins in so far and stunning photography!

Are you watching, Chris?

Damn, didn't know it was on

Trouble is, I've got so used to most TV being utter carp that I tend to forget to look through the EPG in case there might be something worth watching.
Still, I've set a watch timer to catch that programme if/when it gets repeated, maybe on BBC4 sometime.

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Damn, didn't know it was on

Trouble is, I've got so used to most TV being utter carp that I tend to forget to look through the EPG in case there might be something worth watching.
Still, I've set a watch timer to catch that programme if/when it gets repeated, maybe on BBC4 sometime.

Yes, just finished.

You could watch it on catch-up?

It was really excellent.

chris_m

Good news, folks.
Today will be longer than yesterday.
Tomorrow will be a bit longer still,
as will the day after tomorrow, and the day after that, and.....

..until dark mornings and evenings will just be a memory.

:T:T:T:T:T

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Good news, folks.
Today will be longer than yesterday.
Tomorrow will be a bit longer still,
as will the day after tomorrow, and the day after that, and.....

..until dark mornings and evenings will just be a memory.

:T:T:T:T:T

Or until June 21st-ish anyway!

GDB2222

Pyxis wrote: »

Or until June 21st-ish anyway!

That’s what I was thinking, too. I find this time of year a bit depressing and the prospect of this cycle endlessly repeating.....

On the plus side, it’s my birfday today (as my daughter put it when she was three years old). the daughter in the avatar.