when the whole house got the autism
My mom used to get frustrated at all the rocks I put in the kitchen when I got home because she thought they were dirty so she started putting all the new ones in the dishwasher for me once a week before I had to take them to my room and at one point my dad found the silverware caddy full of rocks and was like "why are there rocks in the dishwasher?" And my mom was like "I didn't want dirty rocks on the counter" and then he was like "why were there rocks on the counter?" And I was like "I ran out of room in my pockets" and then he was like "thanks none of that explains anything" and just left the rocks there and grabbed a spoon out of the sink instead of thinking about the rocks any further.
My husband's cousin Brian is a geologist who discovered the first opal with a bug inside. Husband brings home stones from his work trips across the country and some of them he turns into cabochons, like the sunstone ring he made me and the moonstone ring he made for himself.
Rocks are neat.
I haven't met a person, autism or not, that doesn't like rocks. People like rocks so much, they've assigned them to birth (mine is garnet) and we even eat them (minerals)
Forbidden candy!
Not forbidden candy! (Salt)
Mmmm SALT.
here's something interesting about stone tools that might be relevant to humanity's shared love of rocks...
we used stone tools for a very long time, shaping a few basic handheld tools that humans all over the world used. And, because they were so good to us the way they were, they spent a lot of that time not changing in design very much.
By which i mean, for a significant amount of time, our BONES evolved faster than our stone tools did.
Our bones changed shape more than the stone tools we were using. That's how long they serve us in their early forms.
Rocks have been important to human beings since before we were homo sapiens. Finding a good rock, the right rock, the best rock... That is something humans have been invested in for longer than we've been humans.























