The Wallpapering Society

On a much happier note than the previous post, I just got alerted by a friend who is a music expert, about LadyHawke, aka Pip Brown, making it big in the music world. From the other part of the southern hemisphere from us, allow me to introduce a fascinating and talented musician: Asperger’s, allergies and aubergines.

I’ll try and get hold of a CD and get back to you, but if it’s good enough for Kylie Minogue and Courtney Love, it’s good enough for me.

Then, another lady rocking the world in a different way is Evan Delaney Rodgers who I was introduced to by ASAN’s newsletter. Allow me to introduce the youngest candidate for Carlsbad City Council and probably the first to ever specifically ask her supporters NOT to send her money: Candidate wears her difference with pride.

Well, I know who has my vote.

With the paralympics in full swing, I see inspiring images every day of people who defy their disabilities and just rise to physical and spiritual heights in their lifetimes. With Asperger’s being a mostly invisible disability, sometimes all people see is the social akwardness and whatever else a specific aspie displays and they forget the immense challenges that we overcome every day, to do what others do naturally. I therefore want to hail these ladies as equally inspirational and phenomenal in not only coping with daily life but being superstars in their respective fields. You are paving the way for breaking all the myths and boundaries that seems to settle in with an autism diagnosis and showing what can be done with the right circumstances.

If we only had an Aulympics…