Snow covered foliage for few days with snowfall on Dec 23 and then again on Dec 26. Though the snow had started to melt, housebound as roads were still slick with black ice from melting snow. Finally able to venture out.
I can't even begin to imagine places like Buffalo, NY which are still heavily snow-bound.
Snow gone but the deer are still here.
What I learned today from Cal Montgomery. Thx Cal.
Vic Finkelstein, not Mike Oliver, was the author of the social model. Oliver's book just hit big in the U.S.
Snowfall in the darkness of night
Green grass out of sight in morning light
A blanket of winter white on the ground.
Leafless snow laden trees, a background
Undeterred deer saunter around
Munching twigs quite nonchalantly
Baby deer hunker on the ground... to keep warm
Brown fur contrasts on the white ground.
A winter's delight for the eyes.
But when it hardens and turns to black ice
Beware, for it can be a dangerous drive.
Housebound for 3 days...Winter break, so ok.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/12/13/top-stories-from-2022/
Lexicon [Measures] - DSM & ICD
PlainSpeak. In Plain Language for the Lay Audience
While the USA uses the DSM, most of the world uses another tool called the ICD. The ICD, or International Classification of Diseases, is a guide created by the World Health Organization (WHO) to help doctors all over the world diagnose and understand diseases and health conditions.
The changes in ICD-11 help make autism diagnoses more accurate and consistent worldwide. By recognizing autism as a spectrum disorder, the ICD-11 understands that people with autism can have a wide range of symptoms and levels of severity. This approach supports more personalized and appropriate treatments, tailored to what each individual needs.
As our knowledge about autism grows, the ICD will keep evolving to make sure people with autism get the right diagnosis and support. This evolution helps ensure that everyone with autism can live a fulfilling life.
"In the book, I talk about this where I said that I'm more of a fan of the term high support needs and low support needs, because I tend to think that functioning labels really flatten the experience. Because if you call someone low functioning, what it does is it gives a lot of incentive to almost patronize them or to say they're not going to amount to much, so we don't need to invest that much in them. Whereas I think that if you call people high functioning, it almost kind of erases the very legitimate needs that they have. That binary doesn't do anybody good, I don't think. A perfect example that I used when I was writing this book is that I profile a woman by the name of Aria. That's a pseudonym.
She's married, she has kids, all that, but she had trouble graduating college and she had trouble finding work. Whereas there's this young man I profiled, his name is Hari Srinivasan. He is non-speaking. He just graduated from Berkeley a few months ago. He's now started graduate school at Vanderbilt University. At that point, when you think about those things, you have to ask yourself, "Okay, by those standards, who's the high functioning and who's the low functioning one?" You realize that that binary just is... It doesn't work."
