A day at the Conference
Jan. 26th, 2008 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdReport from the conference. Because everyone wanted to hear about that.
First, the portfolio with the naked people. While they didn't say anything, the people did tend to linger on the pictures with a sort of puzzled expression on their faces. Like they couldn't believe they were seeing what they were seeing.
Second: I had these pair of paintings up:
A woman comes up to them and looking at them says to me, "I like how you incorporated the puzzle pieces in the background for Autism."
It took me a second to realize what she was talking about. After all, I had no puzzle pieces in any of my pictures, but when I did I said, "They're not puzzle pieces, it's a stained glass window."
She looked at me and went "Oh" and then walked off.
Third thing. The CAN (or Autism Speaks) guy was right next to our table. My mom, rather gleefully showed him our pamphlet. And I mean gleefully. He seemed to have a confused reaction. Later my mom showed me one of their pamphlets where upon it said that, "Autism is a disorder that can last a lifetime in most children". So, where do the children go when their autism vanishes, I wonder? It is a life time thingy as it is the way we're born, rather like blue eyes. It also said, "One child every twenty minutes is born with the affliction of autism much to the parent's despair" which is really nice to read. These poor kids are afflicting their parents. I'm sure my mom thought I was afflicting her.
My mom talked to the guy for a good half hour trying to convert him, but it didn't work. =( He said, though, that my mom had given him to think about.
First, the portfolio with the naked people. While they didn't say anything, the people did tend to linger on the pictures with a sort of puzzled expression on their faces. Like they couldn't believe they were seeing what they were seeing.
Second: I had these pair of paintings up:
A woman comes up to them and looking at them says to me, "I like how you incorporated the puzzle pieces in the background for Autism."
It took me a second to realize what she was talking about. After all, I had no puzzle pieces in any of my pictures, but when I did I said, "They're not puzzle pieces, it's a stained glass window."
She looked at me and went "Oh" and then walked off.
Third thing. The CAN (or Autism Speaks) guy was right next to our table. My mom, rather gleefully showed him our pamphlet. And I mean gleefully. He seemed to have a confused reaction. Later my mom showed me one of their pamphlets where upon it said that, "Autism is a disorder that can last a lifetime in most children". So, where do the children go when their autism vanishes, I wonder? It is a life time thingy as it is the way we're born, rather like blue eyes. It also said, "One child every twenty minutes is born with the affliction of autism much to the parent's despair" which is really nice to read. These poor kids are afflicting their parents. I'm sure my mom thought I was afflicting her.
My mom talked to the guy for a good half hour trying to convert him, but it didn't work. =( He said, though, that my mom had given him to think about.
