I could not find an introductions forum on this website, so I figured I would post this here.
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I found this website by searching for logic gate stuff. I thought I would join since I plan on making computer engineering a career. I am currently going to Semo and working on my generals. I am teaching myself digital logic on the side because I am a slow learner and wanted to lean as much as I can before I get into my major classes. I studied basic electronics in my preteens.
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My non-electronics interests are art/craft, cartoons, and Biblical scripture. My internet name is Little Pebble 10 due to how my autism ties into my interest in cartoons and little objects such as stuffed animals. The only way I can clear my mind at night is with my imagination. I am a writer along with my art. I find imagination to be just as important as knowledge. If anyone has a question I am an open book. I hope to make friends here and learn a lot.

 

Welcome!

Here's an introduction thread that's 89 pages long.
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/who-are-you.78/page-89

 

I find imagination to be just as important as knowledge.

According to Alfred E. it is More important!

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
Albert Einstein

 

Imagination is useless and a waste of time, without knowledge.

BR-549

 

Sorry I must have missed the intro thread. I am so used to finding an actual page of threads. So few forums have it this way.
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Let me rephrase it BR-549 "It is wise to seek knowledge, but without imagination then there is no joy. Knowledge becomes vainity and unfulfilling." I would expand on it, but I think I would be pushing it with my first impression.
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I have been around many autistic people. All ranging in different areas of knowledge. The ones that I found to be particularly content with themselves are the ones who are vivid dreamers. When it comes to joy if ye not know how to dream then ye not know at all.

 

We just added a site location for a school for Autistic people. So, what I help with is Broadcast professors to site locations via VoIP H323 dual video, I set up a room at the Uni because we couldn't get the autistic site up fast enough for the start of school yesterday. The boy had a Trainer with him, I didn't realize he was autistic he seem rather normal to me. Someone started the event and I was asked to place the professor on another monitor in the front of the room as that would be more like their site location equipment when we get the network up and going.

Anyway, he was sitting in the middle of the room looking behind him, neck bent so I switch the professor to the front of the room, still he preferred the rear monitor to the front monitor. I went into the room, he didn't pay any attention to me when I told him, he can see the professor on the front monitor now rather than the rear, he said I like this one better it's closer. I said you can move to the front of the room, he said no I like this one. I looked at the trainer which at the time didn't know she was a trainer I said, it would seem a little better to view from the front of the room rather than twisting? wouldn't it? She asked him would you like to move to the front of the room he told her no, this is fine.

Very calmly she said it's ok and nodded, I left the room confused. My director stopped me in the hallway to inform me, saying, "kv" he's autistic we put him in the overflow room rather than putting him in the classroom with 60 students, because of the problems at their site.

I was training a new Student hourly how to run our rooms no one explained the situation to me, normally we don't put the professor in the rooms while receiving a broadcast as content is more important than the professor, so normally it boots up with content on both screens, if the presentation button isn't used, it will broadcast just the professor for a type of lecture modality rather than dual video both professor and content.

So, if your not able to see it clearly then you wouldn't know they are autistic, many are hi functioning like my friend for years extremely talented almost an Eidetic memory. But, he will perform the same task over and over while preparing to go anywhere, what takes me 10 minutes will take him 2 hrs. But your guaranteed he will have all we need to survive out in the wild if only leaving for 3 hrs to go shoot or what ever takes us out, hunting etc. I take my coat, gun, rounds snack like stuff, he takes toilet paper sleeping bag extra food, ham radio you name it he has it. But, just in general conversation you would never know until you observe his behavior over time.

kv

 

Autism is a real diagnosis. It is a very large spectrum. My brother has tourette syndrome which is a type of autism. He has to have staff around him 24/7. I have asperger's syndrome. I was diagnosed at a young age due to a brain scan. Long story short they found that I had a traumatic brain injury at some point in my life. This affected the part of my brain that has to do with communication. I write better than I can talk. I can correct sentences, but when it comes to speaking I have to process it in my mind before I say it.

 

Autism is a real diagnosis. It is a very large spectrum. My brother has tourette syndrome which is a type of autism. He has to have staff around him 24/7. I have asperger's syndrome. I was diagnosed at a young age due to a brain scan. Long story short they found that I had a traumatic brain injury at some point in my life. This affected the part of my brain that has to do with communication. I write better than I can talk. I can correct sentences, but when it comes to speaking I have to process it in my mind before I say it.

You're the people pretty much everyone knows are who need the real help and understanding and we're all quite willing to make the needed accommodations for you to have it. It was not your choice to be that way.
The problem is too many get false diagnosis applied to them in order for them, or more importantly their parents and teachers, to have an excuse for not doing proper discipline and social development skill work with them and nothing more.

I can't say I have ever met a honest to goodness developmentally disabled person ever who was not doing their best to become a better more functional and capable human being. I have however met loads of perfectly functional and capable, but just lazy and shallow, people trying to hide under false diagnosis of such afflictions in order to get out of owning up to life's responsibilities or just to get free handouts so that they don't have to accept responsibility for their lives and actions or simply work when they very much can.

I have a developmentally slow cousin who is a wonderful person in that she has put a huge effort into being a better more capable human being than most of us normal people ever will. Same with a few other members on this forum who have family with similar and very real disabilities of some sort. Not one of them I know of have ever said their family member is not doing everything they can to be a better more functional person. I highly respect that!

Now on the other hand, I can't count how many blatant lazy irresponsible fools I have dealt with in life now that act and do completely normal things until they get cornered on having to take responsibility for whatever action they did and then all of a sudden I and everyone else is supposed to give them a free pass on that behavior. A behavior they fully admit they know full well about being wrong and should not do but because they have claimed to have Autism or Aspergers or some other issue, that seems to only come up when it's a convenient way to get out of being responsible or showing self control in anyway, they should get a free pass on it.

That's behavior and blatantly using the system detracts from the legitimacy of good people like and the services you do deserve you in so many ways you and everyone else should be screaming mad about it.

 

Autism is a real diagnosis. It is a very large spectrum. My brother has tourette syndrome which is a type of autism. He has to have staff around him 24/7. I have asperger's syndrome. I was diagnosed at a young age due to a brain scan. Long story short they found that I had a traumatic brain injury at some point in my life. This affected the part of my brain that has to do with communication. I write better than I can talk. I can correct sentences, but when it comes to speaking I have to process it in my mind before I say it.

When I hear the phrase "It's a very large spectrum", that reminds me of "Earthquake weather".

For those of you who don't live in California, earthquake weather is when it's hot, sunny and still, or cold and rainy, or foggy and dreary, or windy in the middle of the night.

In other words, earthquake weather is a very large spectrum -and completely phony.

 

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