Thread: Patience is a virtue ..... they reckon

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

G'day Des,

Nope - that was the wrong age demographic. A 50 -> 60 grouping is the more accurate with my bumping closet to the extreme right of the estimate. What is at the end of it? The conclusion of my indebtedness to the participants who volunteered to allow me personal insight into their lives so other people with the condition may benefit from their experiences. There is no way that I could allow their voices to be silenced from my not finishing this thesis. That is the altruistic side of it.

Financially, the hope that I might succeed in becoming self-employed by providing professional development to educators - primary school to university - so no other poor bastard has to put up with the crap that I did throughout my tertiary education. My personal work-history is far from stellar. I figure I am better off working for myself.

From the application of the professional development side of things sourced from my thesis - that people with Autism may be better survive their education and be able to become employed and turn around the God-awful statistics involved with the level of unemployment for people with Autism in Australia. Amaze (2018) found that the unemployment rate for individuals with Autism is, “31.6 percent. This is three times the rate of people with disability, and almost six times the rate of people without disability”. That more than half of unemployed autistic Australians "(54%) had never held a paid job, despite often possessing the skills, qualifications and a strong desire to join the workforce" (Amaze, 2018, What did we find? section, paras.1-2). Accessed 5th February 2022 from, Autism and employment in Australia - Amaze

Plus, the hopeful sheer satisfaction that - to use the no doubt grammatically incorrect - 'fake' Latin term, that I did not - Illegitimis non carborundum.

Kind regards
Lionel

Thank you Lionel that is most concise & my apologies
for being an ignorant Boor.

Des.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Thank you Lionel that is most concise & my apologies
for being an ignorant Boor.

Des.

G'day Des,

No worries at all!

My research started off as a picture in my mind of a pie anyway. There is a common expression about someone being a 'well-balanced person'. I wondered if the segments of that person's life that made up their being a well-balanced person could be displayed as a pie-graph what would the segments be made up of? Also, how many segments would there be to make up the whole pie?

Then if the same pie segments were compared to an individual with Autism would there be a difference in the result between a well-balanced person and someone with Autism? If there were differences would it possible to use these identified differences to design developmental training along with treatments for Autism - so that someone with Autism could become a well-balanced person?

My research grew like topsy from the pie-graph.


Kind regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

G'day Des,

No worries at all!

My research started off as a picture in my mind of a pie anyway. There is a common expression about someone being a 'well-balanced person'. I wondered if the segments of that person's life that made up their being a well-balanced person could be displayed as a pie-graph what would the segments be made up of? Also, how many segments would there be to make up the whole pie?

Then if the same pie segments were compared to an individual with Autism would there be a difference in the result between a well-balanced person and someone with Autism? If there were differences would it possible to use these identified differences to design developmental training along with treatments for Autism - so that someone with Autism could become a well-balanced person?

My research grew like topsy from the pie-graph.


Kind regards
Lionel

Morning Lionel.

I have no idea, but I will watch your future posts with a renewed interest & wish you well with your "studies"


Personally I cannot believe any of us are "well balanced" in that sense but we continue through life believing that we are, but call it normal.


Thanks again from a well balanced Des. Yeah right.

some band a few years ago sang a song that contained the words "dont let the bastards grind you down"

I'm thinking it was U2 but cannot find the song title.....any one here recall it?

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

some band a few years ago sang a song that contained the words "dont let the bastards grind you down"

I'm thinking it was U2 but cannot find the song title.....any one here recall it?

Acrobat.

cheers mate.

here it is....U2 - Acrobat - YouTube

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

cheers mate.

The last 4 tracks of Achtung baby are a fantastically mellow way to round out an evening, great background/ambience music... In fact, great music full stop.

Hello All,

Just waiting for word back from my Principal Supervisor for what should be my last lot of corrections on the thesis before it is ticked at being 100 percent and can be sent off for examination.


Waiting patiently - patiently waiting....

Kind regards
Lionel