Another con down. I just drove my son to the suburbs four mornings in a row to drop him off at CONvergence (then spent much of my weekend packing up the house for our impending move). His father drove him back each evening. Attendees who stay on site, at the hotel, typically come up with a new costume for each day but my kid tends to cosplay in the same outfit all four days. Which means that outfit must be seriously ripe. I hope he’s throwing it in the wash today. This was the last CONvergence being held at that location. Thankfully they are moving downtown next year.
My teen had been holding out hope he would get his dream job for a first job. Initially things were looking good right after school let out. But as the weeks after graduation dragged on and he never heard back, we found out the place actually had to let a few people go. Some folks with autism don’t deal with change very well. My son had his mind set on working at this place. Getting him to consider other options is not going well. We need to find an employer that is open to neurodiversity, and would let him keep his beard (sigh) and purple hair. Good luck to us! We’re going to need it. At least some employers acknowledge that autistic workers make good employees.
Five Good Things for this full work week:
- As a parent, and heck, just as a human (and one who is claustrophobic and can’t swim at that) this situation has been anxiety inducing. But it looks like things are moving along ok. Rescuers bring eighth person out of Thai cave on second day of rescue
- Gruesome, yes, but also poetic justice:
Gang of poachers EATEN by lions after they broke into South African game reserve to slaughter herd of rhinos - Random historical tidbit: How Vegetarian Food Fueled the British Suffragette Movement.
Vegetarianism aims so directly, as we women aim, at the abolition of the unregenerate doctrine of physical force.
While not quite intersectional feminism, it’s closer than I would have expected for the time period.
- Recently a judge in Chile found eight retired soldiers guilty of the 1973 murder of popular folk singer Victor Jara.
- A great headline from May that I missed. Trump’s NASA Chief: “I Fully Believe and Know the Climate Is Changing”
I also know that we human beings are contributing to it in a major way.
-Jim Bridenstine, taking an unusual stance for this administration. Science, for the win!
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