“Perspective:
•Adult, only recently diagnosed AUTISTIC.
•Survivor, 40 years in May, of Suicide as ‘logical’ strategy to manage being in a world with no place for people of much promise who do not follow through...except in rare exceptional fashion.
SURVIVAL STRATEGY:
•Identify sources of JOY
of HOPE
•Collect in a mental GO-TO file
Podcasts are my major resource for survival, ever since the government hearings about a Supreme Court candidate’s state of moral turpitude was questioned.
Listening to news radio became too hopeless after that period.
At first I was sustained by a trickle of Podcasts-
on science, technology, medicine, and environmental stewardship-
which gave me hope.
The BBC then stepped on stage:
•PEOPLE FIXING THE WORLD
•WITNESS HISTORY: (Voices of innumerable souls from many lands....discovered in their comprehensive Archive of recorded sound.)
Other voices of those
seldom heard,
seldom acknowledged, continues in:
•1800 SECONDS ON AUTISM:
My go-to of (sadly only) six episodes.
When software updates won’t download
and cell storage won’t be coaxed to go to their iCloud storage unit...
I have these six episodes on “Saved” status as a reminder to acknowledge how TOUGH just “being” is for people with Autism.
Other people whose voices are seldom heard,
Had an advocate in MR.ROGERS.
And I now touch on my reason for writing this review;
•••’FINDING FRED’ now joins this autistic person’s brief list of resources to access:
•Hope for the world
+ •A return of “Humanity”
to humankind.
Thank you.”
SparksBrightEyes via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/30/19