[Kvakksangerne] - Autism (ASD) Awareness
Yanisin
Kvakksangerne (The Quack Singers) is relatively new on the political arena in eNorway. We have no intentions on doing heavy politics. Instead we want to be a cultural party with more focus on the party bit of it all.
We will soon release our party song made by our own Clorofila, the official norwegian elk petting instructor is our spokesman(-girl) and Kermit's brother is our Vice President. What can possibly go wrong?
That said, we also want to raise focus on more serious matters from time to time. In USA, April is the national autism awareness month and Kvakksangerne's Councillor Nothos have wrote this article to share with us all.
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First, let's hear the definition from the National Institute for Mental Health:
Definition
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the name for a group of developmental disorders. ASD includes a wide range, “a spectrum,” of symptoms, skills, and levels of disability. People with ASD often have these characteristics:
Ongoing social problems that include difficulty communicating and interacting with others
Repetitive behaviors as well as limited interests or activities
Symptoms that typically are recognized in the first two years of life
Symptoms that hurt the individual’s ability to function socially, at school or work, or other areas of life
Some people are mildly impaired by their symptoms, while others are severely disabled. Treatments and services can improve a person’s symptoms and ability to function.
Families with concerns should talk to their pediatrician about what they’ve observed and the possibility of ASD screening. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) around 1 in 68 children has been identified with some form of ASD.
Most all of us have been impacted or know someone who has been impacted by this illness. While those with autism may have difficulty communicating with neurotypicals and others afflicted with ASD, we should strive to do our best to understand these souls.
May not have the words
to share my experience
Understand me still
So going forward this month, mindful of the suffering and struggle of our fellow man, let us take a moment to learn how better to communicate with autistic people:
10 Tips on How to Communicate with Autistic People - Written by Steve Summers
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Please always keep in mind that communication difficulties are common with Autism. We have difficulties in reading social cues and body language. Be patient and understanding.
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We tend to take things literally and have often trouble reading between the lines. As a result, we may ask a lot of questions to clarify what is meant by something that you say. I have been told that I ask a lot of questions. Don’t be offended by this. It is our way of being sure that we understand what you are telling us. We may repeat back to you in our own words to try and get on the same page as you.
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If we misunderstand something that you say, please be patient and expand on what you said and explain what you meant. Don’t assume a negative or hostile intent from us if we misunderstand something that you said. Keep in mind that communication can be difficult for us. Things that come naturally to you take extra effort by us.
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Please don’t get offended by our communication style. We tend to be frank, honest and matter of fact. Some people may interpret this as blunt or rude. We don’t intend to offend you by not sugar coating the things that we say. We don’t intend to be rude. Please don’t get defensive or assume that we are attacking you. Remember that communicating is hard for us. Don’t make negative assumptions. Too often we get corrected or attacked by someone who fails to give us some slack and the benefit of the doubt.
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Please don’t expect eye contact. We may be able to force eye contact, but it is not comfortable for us. Making eye contact takes a conscious effort. This effort may take away from listening and understanding what you are saying. I tend to look at a person’s mouth more often than their eyes. Other autistic people will rarely look at your face. This is ok.
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Please keep in mind that we most likely have been rejected, excluded, ridiculed or bullied in the past. If we seem anxious or insecure this may be due to living in a world that misunderstands us and is often hostile to us. We have to work hard to reach out to others. Please work at reaching back to us with understanding and kindness. If we feel that you are ignoring us we will feel bad about that. We may persist in asking for feedback from you. Please be reassuring and clearly express your support for us.
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Please don’t speak down to us. Treat us as equals. We may sound flat or have an unusual tone to our voice. We may not speak with our voice at all. We may need to type our words. Please be patient with us. It may take us a while to formulate our answers.
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Please don’t talk too loudly or yell at us. It is very jarring to us. It makes me jump when someone comes up to me and talks too loudly. It is like having someone jump out in the dark yelling “BOO!” at me. It causes an adrenalin dump in my body. I don’t like this.
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Please do NOT touch us without warning. It will make us jump. We don’t like unexpected touches.
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Please don’t assume that we lack empathy or emotion. We pick up on negative or judgmental attitudes. We know when people look down on us or are hostile to us. We will shut down if you show us a lack of respect.
Please keep in mind that we are all different. These issues will vary from person to person. The above tips are written from my perspective as an autistic person. This is just a guide. Feel free to ask me any questions so that I may expand and clarify any areas that aren’t clear to you. Thank you for reading this guide. ~ Steve Summers
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This poem was submitted by Dorothy P. Hopkins. Her granddaughter wrote this poem about her brother with autism for her school's poetry contest.
He's frustrated, why can't we understand him
He's confused
Does he know he's different?
That he's not like us?
It doesn't matter because he is loved
I love him more than anything
He needs to understand it
He must understand it
I love him more than anyone
His smile reminds me he is happy
It is autism that keeps him from communicating
That makes him different
That makes him who he is
He may be different
But I love him
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Often we see a puzzle piece used to represent autism awareness on banners, shirts, pin, buttons, stickers, and even flags. The symbolism here shouldn't be lost on us, but in my mind, there's a second meaning.
It's that autistic souls are still part of the puzzle that is humanity. They're not meant to be cast aside or brutalized, by revered and glorified. Let us take pride in our differences and honor our perfect imperfections.
Despite the tone of much of this, please take it with a light heart, and to the trolls, we'll laugh along, you're playing our song.
Kvakksangerne - The Quack Singers
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[Kvakksangerne] - Autism (ASD) Awareness
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V&S please!
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Vote!!!
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A great work from NGP
Wish you more of such articles in this game
cultural revolution should happen slowly but steadily
Wish you = wish to see
Stupid mobile dictionary
Haha. It happens. Also, it's Kvakksangerne, not NGP
there are some many disorders and some many people who is not understood correctly, or despised or neglected by society.
Kvakk party has the solemn duty to commit here in the game to convey all social matters and share information to make us all more aware of all those situations.
We all deserve a better world and eWorld to live together.
call me guilty as I harbour most of the autism spectrum disabilities. XD
You know, as you attacked me the most. 😉
I never attacked you. I have only exposed your lies and that is different
Why would you call me a liar?😁
Have you forgotten your indecent behaviour? Perhaps I shouldn't have replied here, but you where very rude. 😛 Yet I can see past that, so there's still hope 😉
For all of us!
What you refer to is when I exposed your lies in congress and even taulen said you weren't allowed to have anything to do with our foreign affairs and you didn't show up for the rest of your period and many of us thought you had commited political suicide by lying.
Yes you are correct, I can be very rude towards liars.
I don't lie, it's already hard enough to rmember stuff, lying would make it almost impossible.
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The whole congress present at that time saw you lie. The only one that wouldn't admit it were yourself. Then you blame me for your lies by saying I attacked you and now suddenly you are also an autist. You must be the best functioning autiast in the world with your kids and family and local politics.
You are a liar and a manipulator MdR, that's what you are. Nothing more, nothing less.
Not long ago when Hans Erik were president you said in SweFin-thread that there was no need to care about the other parties in eNorway because Tek was the biggest so you could make your shady rental deal without congress approval.
Reading your newspaper there's nothing that indicates that you are an autist. There is a lot that indicates that you are a manipulator with exeptionally high thoughts about yourself.
I think in this case you have split your polítical experience in Norway from real disorders. A real disorders is not to be taken slightly and affects hugely to those persons. Bad joke. 👎
No joke, I'm officially disabled, that's why I can "joke" about it. 😛
You have told us that you are a father with many kids. You also told us you do politics in your home town in real life. And now you are an autist. Your problem MdR is that you are a pathological liar.
Ask Xibbard, he knows me. Btw, I only have 2 kids and I live in a village. Who's lying now?😁
Most of us can see that our eNorwegian society is strong because we are ALL united for the same goal (make a better eWorld for everybody and even a better RL for everybody) but we also have different opinions and that is good and make us even strongest ✊🏻
o7
Yep, we autists rule in this game. 😃
Autists have as we all know problems with figurative speach. They tend to write and say things straight forward. Nr 4 says "Please don’t get offended by our communication style. We tend to be frank, honest and matter of fact. "
Here's you:
"I'm writing you this while the guns are blazing. We're down to our last stand, the region of Ostlandet, with our capitol Oslo.
Please help us to fight these treacherous Brittish bastards! "
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At the time this is written, a Lithuanian military plane - send in an attempt to occupy Ostlandet - has crashed somewhere in the Skagerrak after being hit by Norwegian anti aircraft missile.
Norwegian Search and Rescue teams are now looking for any survivors. Our aim is to recover all remains of the casualties, to have them send back to Vilnius."
"At this very moment I am wearing my uniform, as our great nation is at war. We first had to endure a illegal dicktatorship by some renegade Chilean induviduals."
This was only 3 examples. I urge everyone to read your newspaper themselves and judge if you are an autist or not. At least I have been around many autists in my life and also people with other disabilities such as Down's syndrom to know to separate fake from true and you do not write like an autist at all.
You have a rich, figurative language with a lot of imaginary writing and you write pictures in our head. Autists doesn't do that!
You are making fun of people with real disabilities here MdR, but I wouldn't expect less from you.
I am officially disabled, and diagnosed with ADHD and PDDnos, with a suspect of Asperger, believe, that is enough. I al;so have an IQ of 140, this helps me to adept, en make up for my flaws.
ADHD is far away from being autistic. Also I never talk about IQ but I am a member of Mensa with a confirmed IQ of 147 on the standard deviation 15 test.
You throw out a number which says nothing, as there are a lot of tests and a number of standard deviations. Saying 140 and nothing more really doesn't say anything.
If you just could be honest and stop thinking you can fool people things would be a lot better for you.
This is also the last I am going to say here.
You have a very wrong view of me.
V o7
thank you.
let´s sing along 😛
put aside truth from creativity¿?¿?¿?
https://youtu.be/3tigVYfHVmQ
thanks man o/
Good quality write