Comments on: Welcome to humans

By: Russell Brown

Russell Brown — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:48:59 +0000

Hi Gabby. So glad you like the site.

If you felt comfortable doing so, I’d love to run something by you about your life in the Stories section here.

And good luck with the studies!

By: Gabby Hogg

Gabby Hogg — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:37:50 +0000

Wow I just found your website, it is so cool. Also interesting, we need more web pages from NZ and i’m glad you have made this website. I have got Asperger’s, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia and Global Intellectual Impairment am 19 yrs old and one day I also want to make my own website. I’m also studying social sciences so this is my interest or you could say field, I’m from NZ by the way and I really appreciate your website. So thankyou

By: Bonnie Ventura

Bonnie Ventura — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:22:51 +0000

Hi! I just found your site through Autism Diva’s blog. It looks good! I’ve added you to my list of recommended sites on Aspergian Pride.

By: Chip Matthews

Chip Matthews — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:44:20 +0000

Great site! As fantastic as it has been to catch up on your families progress and how it can relate in some part to my nephew and his growing up via your blog, this website is a great resource and one that I will be visiting frequently. Choice work fellas.

By: Emma Quigan

Emma Quigan — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:16:03 +0000

Brilliant work. It’s so nice to see such an informative website related to ASD in New Zealand. Thanks.

By: Russell Brown

Russell Brown — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:39:18 +0000

Well done and good luck with the project. Just a wee reminder, that ASD is not just for kids. If anything, the difficulties are greater for adults, since one is expected to be autonomous.

Absolutely. I’m delighted that our first installment in Stories is from Alyson Bradley, who is AS.

By: Anon.

Anon. — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:28:58 +0000

Well done and good luck with the project. Just a wee reminder, that ASD is not just for kids. If anything, the difficulties are greater for adults, since one is expected to be autonomous.

By: Rebecca Williams

Rebecca Williams — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:39:06 +0000

great work russell and co. – the best way i know to spread the word is to send the link to primary school teachers i know who can give it to families. thanks so much for this hard work.

By: Michael Gregg

Michael Gregg — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:08:07 +0000

David, Russell – well done on a fantastic evening at SFBH, and on galvanising Wellington to support the Autism Intervention Trust. Partying is an essential part of the human condition. Personally, I thought Bill English’s speech was stunning and I’d like to see it reproduced here.

By: Hilary Stace

Hilary Stace — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:48:18 +0000

Thanks so much, Russell, for getting this website going. I’m sure it will help the autism networks communicate and unify. And thanks for launching it in Wellington tonight along with David’s book. For those who weren’t there one interesting speech was by David’s friend, the surprisingly short Billy Glish, who introduced himself for the benefit of Wellington political groupies in the audience (of whom there were several across the political, and probably autistic, spectrum) as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. He also admitted to being Health Minister at the time of the Casey Albury tragedy, that significant event for forcing autism into the spotlight. However, I disagreed with his assertion that our children with autism (if non-verbal)had to have their humanity expressed for them by others. They express their humanity simply by being.