RRSTDV8 wrote:

Moo wrote:

The snowflake generation. Lord help us.

S'funny but previous generations thought similar of your generation - obviously with different names/ideas etc.

Young people have always done stuff that their parents etc. don't "get"/like/agree with etc.

The best bits are always to be found watching the reactions of the previous generations.

Hardware17 wrote:

DSL wrote:

Tell me about it. My niece has a rice husk cup, coz it’s friendly to the oceanic wildlife. Well I don’t throw my plastic cups in the ocean.

someone must be doing that … https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06mfk3y?...ntentcard2

That was truly horrifying what we have done to this planet

And yes the world has gone bonkers all over, but it never seems to concentrate on important stuff......like plastic

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"Sometimes I literally just freeze up and I'll just sit there and get more overwhelmed until I end up crying, have a meltdown or run away.
"I'll have a panic attack, feel cold and my vision goes into tunnel vision."

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But Hannah, from Weymouth, Dorset, doesn't agree with a ban on clapping.
Instead she believes the students' union should be putting more effort into raising awareness of autistic people.
"This would not only educate everyone about what to do if someone like me has a meltdown, but also help autistic people feel more accepted.
"You can ban loud noise in one scenario but as soon as you're out of campus you could encounter a loud noise and therefore it's a bit pointless."
She also says it could "breed resentment" if other students start to harbour bad feelings towards autistic people.

RootinTootin wrote:

Our younger daughter is autistic and we have always worked on the theory that she should adapt/cope with/adjust to the world as we cannot expect it to be altered for her. Noise and certain frequencies used to be a problem and she would have palpitations and almost go into shock were she required to go into her mainstream primary school music class. It was a slow and gradual process of standing outside the door looking in, having the door open etc etc but by the year end she was participating in the school show. A major improvement came as a result of a Speech and Language Therapist suggesting we try Johanssen (not sure of the spelling) Sound Therapy . She had a hearing loss anyway, but the therapy checked which frequencies were absent and which were over sensitive. A tape was made of ‘floaty, relaxing’ (her description) music which she had to listen to before going to sleep each night. The tapes were changed/tweaked every few months and the next time she went to the audiologist they were amazed at the improvement .
She used to watch firework displays with her fingers firmly stuffed in her ears whilst ‘clapping’ with her elbows but now she joins in with the rest with no qualms whatsoever.