Ummm, thanks? I’m not really sure what that means, though?
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A person of integrity and honour is the actual definition, but over and above that, just a generally top notch person. That is you, doc.
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Thank you, but I am pretty sure I don’t deserve all that.
We are all of us in the gutter
But some of us are looking at the stars…
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Final paragraphs:
What form these insights will take is still a problem for the future; architects with WIP aim to produce prototypes in the spring. But as engagements, the attention and enthusiasm of the participants show the first parts of the project are a success.
Fresh from study sessions with the elementary school kids and their teachers, Carpenter already has some ideas, from brightening up the cul-de-sac with semi-permanent floor stickers and graphics, to getting kids into the act via decorating the chain-link fence that separates the street from the highway with plexiglass tiles. She and her team previewed that involvement in the session, getting kids to draw their dream plans, and asking them to vote on a variety of activities pictured on a pin-up board.
“People talk about engagement a lot,” Carpenter says, “but you are not just doing the engagement because you want people to feel like they are part of the process. The ideas are going to be better, and they might not be the ones you would have.”
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Wow. That’s… really, really similar to many of my daily experiences. Hmm.
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The Oxford Center provides hyperbaric oxygen therapy for children with autism, ADHD and autoimmune diseases and other health conditions, the district attorney’s office said.
Just so we all understand, hyperbaric O2 has never been shown to have any role in treatment of autism, ADHD or anything of the sort. Nitrogen narcosis, necrotizing fasciitis, a few other things, yes, yes it does. But this kid literally died in a fire for no damned reason at all. I hate it all…
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I need an angry react for that…
As someone who is neurodivergent, I don’t need to be fixed (if that was even possible with such dubious therapies). ND people’s brains work differently, and the only reason it’s a disability is because neurotypicals make it a problem cause we weird them out.
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…and the ones who take it to absurd lengths are neurodivergently narrow-minded.
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Yep. As someone who has received hyperbaric treatment [1], I’m feeling a weird combination of “horrified” and “not surprised” that anyone who would peddle this as a treatment for autism would also ignore fire safety protocols. Because of course those reality-ignoring little shits would do that.
[1] The treatment was for decompression illness from scuba diving, which hyperbaric therapy absolutely treats. It’s pretty much the only treatment.
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