#tpga

[roxettediaries]

#Per60 - #49

I am amazed how TDR has literally shaken the whole of TPGA (too) to make this list. And trust me, it’s hard work! It’s blood and sweat - hard work!!!

*huugggsss* and I really am giving those out from my heart!

“Monster Hangover” - no such thing as a “Monster Hangover” or any mention. It’s more like a temporary name like Paul McCartney named “yesterday” as “Scrambled Eggs”. Yes, I observed that too! TDR observed it in a deeper detail.

#Per60 has a great edge, you know? His songs are sometimes in another language, something released under the Roxette label and sometimes under Gyllene Tider. And under Per’s work whatsoever. One song, multiple categories.

“Monster Hangover” is representing GTs “72” - and it’s got it’s fair share of description too! Yayy!

What’s next? Ghost in the house? Or is it the Sasame Street Monster? Elmo? Cookie Monster? Hmmm, I mean, Gabriel was once little too, not long ago!

Love and Peace

25/11/2018

[autisticadvocacy]

Autism news and resources: from autistic people, professionals, and parents

TPGA  talks about some of the apps in Apple's Autism Acceptance App Collection

[anautistic]

A "Profound Autism" Category Is Segregation—Not Progress

The term “profound autism” is not very useful. Instead, parents need to connect with people who understand autistic kids’ high-support trait

Shannon Des Roches Rosa, for TPGA.

[anautistic]

“Can My Child Ever Learn to Speak?” Communication and Autism

Using technology, I can ‘speak,’ I can ask for help. I can share friendship and love. I can make my communication into the authentic me.

Ann Memmott for TPGA,

"I recall trying to pronounce the right words at the right time, in conversation. How hard was it? By the time I’d heard something…translated it to pictures in my mind…thought about an answer in pictures in my mind…thought of some words to put together…and remembered how to make my mouth, lips and tongue move correctly, the conversation would have moved on. If I was not putting 100% concentration into it, I would also say the wrong word, or a mispronounced word, or say them too fast, too slow, too slurred, in a strange accent. Or respond by just describing the picture in my mind, which is not the communication expected. Natural autistic communication is genuinely different. It was hell, trying to communicate in a way entirely not my own. Easier to be with a person who spoke 100% of the time at me, and my role was just to listen 100% of the time and occasionally agree. Using spoken language was like clambering up a cliff face in a gale force wind, weighed down with ever-shifting boulders. Clinging on in desperation, making my brain and body do something utterly alien to it, fearful of a wrong move, a wrong grasp of a situation. How much do autistic people have to care about others, to try to do this, time after time after time? I learned to talk, but the effort remains the same.

In my mind, I could visualise whole 3-D scenes, create incredible 3D rendering of situations past and present. In my heart, I could feel so intensely the emotions and joys of those around me. But my ways of sharing those emotions using spoken words would be deemed clumsy, insulting, or humiliatingly hilarious for others. So, I created with music, with art, with sharing unspoken but (for me) beautiful prayer and emotion. I communicated by movement, by rocking, by flapping. I communicated really well with other autistic people, and really well with animals. Some of my good friends are translators by trade, who have no difficulties understanding that I communicate differently. None of my own ways of communicating were seen by those in power as communicating. None of it counted."

[anautistic]

What Do "Good Enough" Motor Skills Look Like? — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM

Two autistic people could have the exact same motor challenges and each make different decisions about what is “good enough” for them.

Excerpt

"Part of providing respectful and affirming support for autistic people with motor challenges (and anyone experiencing physical disability, really) is giving people autonomy over their bodies. One piece of this is giving people autonomy in choosing what aspects of their movement or motor skills they would like to change or seek support for, and what aspects of their movement they feel are “good enough.” Many of us as autistic people experience some degree of motor developmental disability at some point in our life. It’s not uncommon for autistic folks to need to reflect on what they feel “good enough” motor function might wind up looking like for themselves, given their individual circumstances. A 2023 study by Gowen et al. explored the perspectives of autistic adults with coordination challenges and highlighted some of the factors that might influence people in deciding what is “good enough” movement for them. Many autistic adults who experience coordination challenges have never received formal support for their motor disability, and wish they had been able to access support, as coordination challenges can affect many domains of our lives. We often are motivated to work hard at developing the movement skills that are meaningful to us, even when our coordination difficulties make it so that we need to spend much more time practicing a movement than the average person might. With enough practice, we often can and do improve our motor skills. But for many of us, there can be certain activities that always remain challenging, even after extensive practice. So, what do we do when that situation arises? As the participants in the study shared, we learn ways of coping and working with the movement that we have. Essentially, we often wind up needing to accept that certain aspects of our motor function are “good enough”, and find alternative ways of doing what we want and need to do."

[roxettediaries]

#Per60 - #44

“En händig man” on #44!!! That’s unfair! But well, please don’t put “kissing is the key” or “I didn’t mean to turn you on” further up - because that would make me.... Doubt.... Stuff!

Anyway *hugs* to the wonderful TDR team! Collecting Per songs to a 60 song list isn’t an easy task.

So, “En händig man” is a song which has the potential to be liked in the first listen. I mean, it emits a cuteness which doesn’t require you to know Swedish. The music and Per’s singing tell a lot itself.

TDR mentioned that Per isn’t really a handyman, and that he has admitted before too. It’s a “handy man”. But guess what, when Per released the demos of the “En händig man” album in TPGA, he made sure that that album cover had tools, and plenty of them - the demo album cover was more a handyman that Per himself (haha).

Hanna is there. Hanna is what Joanna is to the “son of a plumber” project.

Oh, and I just realised that both the names have an “Anna” in them. Per? Was it all planned?

Cute song, really really cute song! Came too early on #Per60.

Love and Peace

30/11/2018

[roxettediaries]

April & September

My day passed listening to different versions of “Come September” as my dad grew up in that time. But I didn’t mind that at all. In fact, it was fun to enjoy something which made him feel so young. “September days of scarlet, April morning dew”  Line from the song “Like Lovers Do”. September days of scarlet: En vacker dag April morning dew: En vacker natt Doesn’t fit well, does it? Per probably wasn’t thinking about this song line either. He must have forgotten about it by now. “Pearls of Passion” - the only time he remembered it was when he released “The Per Gessle Archives”. And then there is of course “Wish you the best”  September clouds Shaped just like shells September rain Should fall somewhere else There is September in this song. And guess what, it got modified into “April Clouds”.  Hmmm.... Per seems to love mentioning these two months, and some how link them together.  Coincidence or is it the Northern European Spring-Autumn factor?  There is another September song called “September Girl” which was a part of “The Lonely Boys” project. Nisse Hellberg is the main guy behind that song, and there is no reference to April there, so lets skip it, shall we? Love and Peace 2/9/2017

[autisticadvocacy]

Autism research tends to focus more on causation and cures than on helping existing autistic community members. From both practical and basic rights perspectives, this needs to change. Too many core autistic needs are still under-researched, and, as a result, proper supports and understanding are too often lacking. We are hoping to help autism research better serve the interests of autistic people, and more fully address the research matters autistic people want addressed. With this in mind, #AutIMFAR is meant to connect autistic communities with autism research communities directly, during IMFAR, the International Meeting for Autism Research. Such conversations don't happen often enough at IMFAR due to a variety of barriers: cost, sensory bomb conference environment, having to face people who don’t see why they shouldn’t aim to cure or normalize autistic people, travel stress, etc.

If you are an autistic person who is interested in autism research and/or an autism researcher, we hope you will participate in #AutIMFAR.

#AutIMFAR Details

Time: Thursday, May 11, 5:30 - 6:30pm PST/8:30 - 9:30pm EST. Participating: Follow the Twitter hashtag twitter.com/hashtag/AutIMFAR. Alternatively, Twitter chat platforms like TweetChat and Twubs can simplify following these hashtag-based conversations. Questions will be asked as "Q1" etc; please answer using "A1" etc. Partners: The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), NOS Magazine, autchat, Autism Women's Network (AWN), and Thinking Person's Guide to Autism (TPGA).