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Good morning Mamacita @mamacita, I am excited to see this discussion that you started become so active. Greetings from South Eastern Minnesota where it's brignt, sunny and currently 5 degrees but it is supposed to get up to a high of 24 degrees today. We have a dusting of snow almost covering the ground and it's starting to look a little like Christmas even though we haven't celebrated Thanksgiving yet. Does your local school district have a Community Education Department? They have that here in Minnesota and they normally offer some great adult education on computers and social media for us Oldies but Goodies.
I had not heard of Jeanette Purkis Au mentioned in your previous post but I did a little searching and maybe these links will help.
Jeanette Purkis on autism and empowerment
-- https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/jeanette-purkis-autism-empowerment/7528224
Reflections on 'Lateral Violence and the Autistic Community (her website/blog)
-- https://jeanettepurkis.wordpress.com/2018/11/08/reflections-on-lateral-violence-and-the-autistic-community/
Disability, Resilience and Achieving the Supposedly Impossible: Jeanette Purkis at TEDxCanberra
-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqdGb4TraFk
John
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Well shiver me timbers, and ship ahoy! You are the best, John! Thank you! Looking into Community Education/Computer Classes! And Jeanette is awesome.
Mamacita
@johnbishop I finally had a chance to view this presentation. Thank you so much. I met Temple Grand in almost 20 years ago. There was a lot of truth shown here. We cannot allow a diagnosis of being on the spectrum to be a reason for not living to our potential, or limiting someone.
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Hi John:
I just listened to the above video. It was wonderful! Thanks for sharing that.