I remember so vividly the pictures and videos of baby pygmy goats that a nurse I worked with up at the hospital would bring to work in the spring. S**** raised those precious little creatures on her substantial Idaho property. Those springtime pictures were the single stimulus I ever witnessed that made a couple of scowling neurologists utter an audible "Squeee!".
There is a YouTube video that's just about 4 minutes of like 30 baby goats charging in and out of a barn that is the best thing on the internet. Except for maybe the horse with the rubber squeak chicken.
"Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a conversation with anyone in your family about how if there was more science when you were younger, you or somebody in your family would have been diagnosed. "
OK LOOK. I quite literally used to joke that the only reason I'm not ADHD is they hadn't invented it yet when I was a kid. Then - relatively recently - I started learning more about the AuDHD spectrum. And the more I learned, particularly about how differently these traits can manifest in girls? the more I felt Seen, as the kids say.
At this point in my life, I don't know that getting a formal diagnosis would really do much for me, so I don't plan to bother. But viewing myself, especially my younger self, through the lens of so-called high functioning autism, has made a WHOOOOLE lot of pieces fall into place.
I'll raise both hands. My late brother was autistic, and he went to high school in the early 1960s, when hardly anyone knew what autism was. He would do hideously inappropriate things like write love letters to the quarterback of the football team, and get beaten up as a result. The school's response to the violent bullying was to pressure my parents to pull him out of school, which they eventually did.
Fast-forward about 40 years. I undertook to get him properly diagnosed, so he could make an SSI claim. As a first step, I collected all available medical records from his therapists and his hospitalization in his teens. The diagnoses were all over the map: schizophrenia, depression, bipolar, you name it. Then I took him to a clinical psychologist who specialized in autism; the only reason I knew about the guy was I'd interviewed him for a newspaper article. He said that generally speaking, autism diagnoses were only then beginning to catch up with reality.
TL;DR: RFKJ has no fucking idea what he's talking about. What else is new.
i'm so sorry. i had a special needs brother in the 70's. (we lost him last year). he had amazing care and schooling (and was never subjected to local public school). i'm still besties with his teachers and caregivers. i feel like peter benefited in ways that folks with autism couldn't at the time. peter was more obviously challenged.
He found peace for the last part of his life. Our sister got him a volunteer position at the local special-needs school. He helped with autistic kids who were even less functional than he. He would sing songs with the classes as part of their therapy.
When he passed, we didn't have a formal service. But the school had a commemoration ceremony for him that was so sweet, it brought tears to my eyes. One of the teachers sang a song he'd written just for John.
To this day, my sister displays, in the living room of our childhood home, the farewell posters the students made for him.
I mean, sure, Megyn Kelly is a nutjob. But she gets paid to be a person who speaks in front of a camera, so I’d kinda expect her to be semi-coherent when doing so. Silly me.
"Raise your hand if..." Yep. By several. Undiagnosed, but pretty sure. Could be ND, could be trauma, but could also be trauma inflicted by people ignorant of ND, so...six of one, yadda yadda yadda.
As a bit of unrelated trivia, Brits (or at least Mrs. Brit 🦡🍄🐍) say “six and two threes” instead of “six of one, half dozen of the other.” And now you know.
So I'm here at the Food Bank for my first volunteer shift. Just walked from downtown after the thunderstorms have cleared up.
I have four of the next six days off work (my two usual days off Today/Weds and then Sat/Sun to use up my remaining paid time for the year ahead of my anniversary at the end of this month) so it's kind of a vacation feel.
I'm beginning to think we need some kind of national recall provision to deal with bad presidents when Congress refuses to impeach or refuses to convict. The bar is set so high and all it takes is one party to act in solidarity to thwart any meaningful use of impeachment. Yet Trump clearly is incapable of fulfilling his duties and is leading our country down disastrous roads.
Goat babies! Your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/stout-goat-kidlets
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/3727dca2-3b07-46c7-ba89-494e2f49aba2?utm_source=share
Habibi babys.
Love baby goats.
Those goats are so cute, I'm flapping my wings and chirping. Eeeeee!
🐐🐐🐐🦜🦜🦜
Ah. Not fully weaned. I was wondering why it was even possible to so easily distract these kids from their food. Mystery solved!
The little one who looks into the camera is saying, "num num num, mine not yours."
I remember so vividly the pictures and videos of baby pygmy goats that a nurse I worked with up at the hospital would bring to work in the spring. S**** raised those precious little creatures on her substantial Idaho property. Those springtime pictures were the single stimulus I ever witnessed that made a couple of scowling neurologists utter an audible "Squeee!".
Yup, those are Babby CAMELS!
Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I put on videos of babby goats, running and fainting in their pjs. I have great dreams!
I Oogled that because I thought you were snarking, but it is real and awesome!
When I go to sleep, I never count sheep, I just count the charms about Linda
You don’t often see videos of goats eating goat chow out of a bowl
Totes goats!
If there's a moral to this story,
And for me there seems to be,
It's the sooner that the small goats wean
The more goat cheese for me.
There is a YouTube video that's just about 4 minutes of like 30 baby goats charging in and out of a barn that is the best thing on the internet. Except for maybe the horse with the rubber squeak chicken.
Is it from Sunflower Farms? I do love their baby goat content. They've even been featured in a gif here in the past!
I have no idea. But it turns up now and then in somebody's feed, and I cannot stop laughing *Every. Time!*🤣
Thank you for this, Martini! Babby goats are adorable and comforting.
And smelly.
Gotta watch out for those meddling kids!
And their dog!
The stoned one or the scrappy one?
(tries to figure out how to spell "ah-EE-huh-huh-huh"...)
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
Mares eat oats and
does eat oats
and liddle lambs eat ivy
but a kid'll eat ivy too ...?
Those words sound queer and funny to my ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey.
👆👆👆👆👆👆
You must be kidding.
They also left Ted Cruz aboard. He now knows where he stands on the "vital - expendable" list.
"Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a conversation with anyone in your family about how if there was more science when you were younger, you or somebody in your family would have been diagnosed. "
OK LOOK. I quite literally used to joke that the only reason I'm not ADHD is they hadn't invented it yet when I was a kid. Then - relatively recently - I started learning more about the AuDHD spectrum. And the more I learned, particularly about how differently these traits can manifest in girls? the more I felt Seen, as the kids say.
At this point in my life, I don't know that getting a formal diagnosis would really do much for me, so I don't plan to bother. But viewing myself, especially my younger self, through the lens of so-called high functioning autism, has made a WHOOOOLE lot of pieces fall into place.
Megyn doesn’t sound at all deranged and desperate for attention.
Pedo47 also said the MMR vaccine is explosive. So, “Honey, I Blew Up the Kid” takes on a different meaning.
My brother and I were just wondering, what happened to Marcie? We really liked her writing. Neither of us recalls anyone saying anything about it.
Yeah, WHAR MARCIE?!
Andrew Fleming, too. Just poof, gone.
Andrew has a summer job as a ferry captain.
Might be a better paycheque than his once a week blog post here.
I remember Andrew saying he was taking a month's vacation, but that was early June I think 🤔
"They give them this big bottle of liquid to drink, that's all vaccines. At least I assume that's what's in the bottle."
It's Diet Coke.
next friday is the Fukui memorial edition of the monthly San Francisco Wonkster Meet Up
August 21, 6PM, Eclipse Restaurant in the Embarcadero Hyatt Regency
We sit behind the bar. Look for a woman in a wheelchair, that's me, and I"d love your support.
𝑅𝘢𝑖𝘴𝑒 𝑦𝘰𝑢𝘳 𝘩𝑎𝘯𝑑 𝑖𝘧 𝘺𝑜𝘶’𝘷𝑒 𝑒𝘷𝑒𝘳 𝘩𝑎𝘥 𝘢 𝘤𝑜𝘯𝑣𝘦𝑟𝘴𝑎𝘵𝑖𝘰𝑛 𝑤𝘪𝑡𝘩 𝘢𝑛𝘺𝑜𝘯𝑒 𝑖𝘯 𝘺𝑜𝘶𝑟 𝑓𝘢𝑚𝘪𝑙𝘺 𝘢𝑏𝘰𝑢𝘵 𝘩𝑜𝘸 𝘪𝑓 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝘳𝑒 𝑤𝘢𝑠 𝑚𝘰𝑟𝘦 𝘴𝑐𝘪𝑒𝘯𝑐𝘦 𝘸ℎ𝘦𝑛 𝑦𝘰𝑢 𝑤𝘦𝑟𝘦 𝘺𝑜𝘶𝑛𝘨𝑒𝘳, 𝑦𝘰𝑢 𝑜𝘳 𝘴𝑜𝘮𝑒𝘣𝑜𝘥𝑦 𝑖𝘯 𝘺𝑜𝘶𝑟 𝑓𝘢𝑚𝘪𝑙𝘺 𝘸𝑜𝘶𝑙𝘥 𝘩𝑎𝘷𝑒 𝑏𝘦𝑒𝘯 𝘥𝑖𝘢𝑔𝘯𝑜𝘴𝑒𝘥.
I'll raise both hands. My late brother was autistic, and he went to high school in the early 1960s, when hardly anyone knew what autism was. He would do hideously inappropriate things like write love letters to the quarterback of the football team, and get beaten up as a result. The school's response to the violent bullying was to pressure my parents to pull him out of school, which they eventually did.
Fast-forward about 40 years. I undertook to get him properly diagnosed, so he could make an SSI claim. As a first step, I collected all available medical records from his therapists and his hospitalization in his teens. The diagnoses were all over the map: schizophrenia, depression, bipolar, you name it. Then I took him to a clinical psychologist who specialized in autism; the only reason I knew about the guy was I'd interviewed him for a newspaper article. He said that generally speaking, autism diagnoses were only then beginning to catch up with reality.
TL;DR: RFKJ has no fucking idea what he's talking about. What else is new.
i'm so sorry. i had a special needs brother in the 70's. (we lost him last year). he had amazing care and schooling (and was never subjected to local public school). i'm still besties with his teachers and caregivers. i feel like peter benefited in ways that folks with autism couldn't at the time. peter was more obviously challenged.
i wish your brother all the best.
He found peace for the last part of his life. Our sister got him a volunteer position at the local special-needs school. He helped with autistic kids who were even less functional than he. He would sing songs with the classes as part of their therapy.
When he passed, we didn't have a formal service. But the school had a commemoration ceremony for him that was so sweet, it brought tears to my eyes. One of the teachers sang a song he'd written just for John.
To this day, my sister displays, in the living room of our childhood home, the farewell posters the students made for him.
I mean, sure, Megyn Kelly is a nutjob. But she gets paid to be a person who speaks in front of a camera, so I’d kinda expect her to be semi-coherent when doing so. Silly me.
"Raise your hand if..." Yep. By several. Undiagnosed, but pretty sure. Could be ND, could be trauma, but could also be trauma inflicted by people ignorant of ND, so...six of one, yadda yadda yadda.
As a bit of unrelated trivia, Brits (or at least Mrs. Brit 🦡🍄🐍) say “six and two threes” instead of “six of one, half dozen of the other.” And now you know.
... 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘪𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘢𝘯 b̶o̶u̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶c̶l̶a̶p̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶h̶a̶n̶d̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶r̶a̶c̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶ ̶d̶a̶y̶ fall asleep sitting up again?
FIFY
YAY, Goat Babies!! Also, YAY for Evan Hurst's dog Ruby!!
So I'm here at the Food Bank for my first volunteer shift. Just walked from downtown after the thunderstorms have cleared up.
I have four of the next six days off work (my two usual days off Today/Weds and then Sat/Sun to use up my remaining paid time for the year ahead of my anniversary at the end of this month) so it's kind of a vacation feel.
I'm beginning to think we need some kind of national recall provision to deal with bad presidents when Congress refuses to impeach or refuses to convict. The bar is set so high and all it takes is one party to act in solidarity to thwart any meaningful use of impeachment. Yet Trump clearly is incapable of fulfilling his duties and is leading our country down disastrous roads.
Cassidy is a treasonous bastard, and can kiss my big blue butt.