I can't help but notice that BD and Lynn are safely inside the shuttle while I'm hanging, literally, by a rope, in space. What, exactly, do you think they have planned for me??
Because the first episode was such a smashing success (of course, that depends on how loosely you define the term "success") there will be a second episode of Autism WTF on BlogTalkRadio, hosted by Lynn and Big Daddy, only THIS time they'll have an sooper special guest. I know, I know, you're thinking "OOHH! I hope it's somebody cool!" but, no... it's me!
So, mark your calendars for Tuesday February 15th at 1:00pm Eastern (10:00am Pacific; uh... some other times in some other places). All you have to do is go to the Autism WTF site on BlogTalkRadio (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/autismwtf) at that specific date and time, turn your speakers up and you're good to go!
If you don't actually mark your calendar, though.... don't worry. I'll remind you.
Regular reader will know that Child 1 is not a fan of drills. The Fire Drill, in particular, and now apparently there's also an Earthquake Drill. These are things that only happen in school, they are mandatory, they are generally unexpected (unless you've talked about it at an IEP meeting, and then the principal will email you notice the night before) they disrupt the normal course of the day and their purpose is to help prepare the kids for what to do in case of a major catastrophic event. He doesn't care about the specifics, he just doesn't like the drills, particularly since he's never actually experienced a catastrophic event before, or even a minor emergency, so he doesn't really understand exactly what it is he's preparing for. All he knows is that it's unexpected and it changes his routine. Can't really blame him.
Regular reader will also know that Child 1 loves him some YouTube videos. he started out watching videos of BART trains and gradually made his way through to Muni trains, and then BART stations, and Muni stations, and in every station, there is an elevator. So now his latest obsession is the dieselducy YouTube channel, who apparently is just this guy who makes a lot of videos of elevators. I'm not entirely sure what that's about, but occasionally I will see one of his videos that he's made with another person and that other person always seems very autistic to me, so maybe that's his thing. I don't know, all I know is that Child 1 loves this guy. Actually, another thing that I know is that in one of these videos (not the one below) they're in a train station and there's a bell ringing that sounds exactly like the sound my phone makes when my husband sends me a text message, so I'm always hearing it from the other room and pulling out my phone and being very confused as to why there's nothing on the screen. But I digress....
Did you guys catch Big Daddy and Lynn on Autism WTF this morning? It was their first show and apparently the topic was "learning how radio shows work." You should check it out and be surprised at BD's very thick New York accent. Yours truly got not one, but TWO shout outs, I'll have you know! Once when they were discussing why they weren't allowed to use profanity, and the other when they were talking about how they have tape of them talking shit about their friends that they need to destroy. I'm so awesome.
Wait.
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So, the other day, apparently YouTube was down, but only for comcast customers; aren't we lucky? Child 1 was not pleased. However, this being the most catastrophic event he has yet to experience in his short life so far, apparently a Drill was required. So, for a while, we did the YouTube Drill. All the lights had to be turned off and we had to be very quiet while we waited for YouTube to come back up. Good thing we practiced! Now we're ready for when The Big One hits. You know, when the entire internet goes down, not just YouTube. I fear the day.....
My crazy friends Big Daddy Autism and Lynn the Autism Army Mom are launching a new program on Blog Talk radio that they call Autism WTF and tomorrow, Tuesday, February 1 at noon eastern time is their big first show. YAY those guys!!
