Mellow Marshmallow

The most powerful speaker about something like this is one who suffers from it. I think also about Michael J. Fox, who is a powerful advocate for curing and managing Parkinson's Disease.





This kid is awesome! I love seeing success stories about stuff like this where a team approach helps a person who learns differently (because everyone learns differently) to help him achieve success. And, music helped him too! AND if those things weren't awesome enough, he's taking a step beyond and going out, speaking and raising awareness about FASD!!! AWESOME.

Additionally, I love that he mentions that it's more than drinking during pregnancy. It's so easy to make the mother out as a bad guy (well, girl) but it's often more than that. His mom suffered from domestic violence with an alcoholic husband, whose behavior was in part a result of generations of a culture which has no prevention against such things, which is due to other cultures interacting with it and a history between everything, and it's all a result of everything together. If that makes sense. And how complicated this all is makes blame lie a little less neatly.

BASICALLY I LOVE THIS STUFF AND THIS GUY AND MY JOB AND SUCCESS STORIES AND INTERESTING STUFF LIKE CULTURE AND HEALTH AND LANGUAGE

/intense enthusiasm

Loss of knowledge, something you take for granted.

Akinetopsia - loss of motion perception. Can you imagine not seeing motion? You wouldn't pay attention to someone waving to you. How would you perceive the world, then?

Auditory agnosia - difficulty in distinguishing environmental noise from speech. How could you listen to people? I tell you how-- you wouldn't. You wouldn't even know how.

Semantic agnosia - wtf!! You look at an object and have no idea of what it is by sight; the moment you touch it, feel it, smell it, taste it, hear it... anything that's not seeing it, you might remember what it is.

Form agnosia - in which you can't perceive an object as a whole, but only its separate parts. What in the world would this feel like?

Interesting stuff. Wear helmets, people. Don't want you getting brain injury and losing abilities you didn't even know you had.

I came upon this ridiculous image on the internets. Ryan Bertrouche, a model. No explanation came with the picture.

Exactly as it says. Dang, Taeyang, Joon, and Rain! And Kikwang or whatever. O_O

While we're on the subject...
( ...Might as well make this ab appreciation post )

Ah I'm in heaven, this site is heaven. In a fun way it combines languages and phonetic combinations! *bliss*

Here

"Abraham!" sprach Bebraham;
"Kann ich ma' dein Zebra ha'm?"

Kleine Kinder können keine kleinen Kirschkerne knacken.
Kleine Kirschkerne können kleine Kinder keine knacken.

Hay chicas chachareras que chacotean con chicos chazos. Y un chico mete al chillón de la chepa un chichón por chirrichote, y el chiste, y lo chocante, es que la chepa se le ha chafado con la hinchazón del chirlo.

El volcán de parangaricutirimícuaro se quiere desparangaricutiriguarízar, y él qué lo desparangaricutiricuarízare será un buen desparangaricutirimízador.

Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.

The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.