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[Michaelangelica]

Interesting observation.
what is he/she/ probably he like with music?

When i was nursing autistic kids at a kid's Psych unit when governments spent money on health
I was on night duty
Between night rounds we heard singing
"We all live in a Yellow Submarine"
We finally traced to the sound to a severely autistic (permanently hospitalised) kid's private room as he sang the Beatles song while decorating his walls with faeces. (Which we had to fix before the day shift came on -not impressed).Before this episode I have never heard him talk or make any sound.


The same kid we took to the beach with a number of psychologically disturbed kids on the train.
On minute he was sitting quietly ; next he was tearing to the open (moving) train door. Fortunately I had fast reflexes otherwise he would have been dead and I would have been filling out paperwork for the rest of my life

Strangely now I find Austistic kids hard to handle
Give me an obsessive compulsive or YY chromosome any day -at least there is communication

We used to have a wonderful therapist Juliet Harper who came dressed like a stunning, ravishing, beautiful gypsy all colour and bangles and jingling, glittering earrings.
The female nurses eyes all turned to daggers when she came. A grey uniform was not much of a match for Juliet; and she was Regal into the bargain.

She certainly was able to do more with the autistic kids than most at that time 1970s
She did a PhD in psychology in about the same time it took me to do an undergraduate degree. It is sad I have lost contact with her now (She is probably dead like many friends).