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Robin Stafford's avatar

Just finishing the book which Ive loved. The love and understanding of you and Ginny really shines through. It's an education and Id recommend it to anybody.

As it happened, Waiting for the Man is one of my all time favourite tracks and I was lucky enough to see the Velvets in 69/70. Talking to a friend recently about the book it turned that it was his favourite track too. We reflected on our personal traits and people we knew, concluding that maybe we are all neurodiverse in the way that we are different shapes, sizes and colours, with some of us more diverse than others. We'll have succeeded when that is accepted and we allow for and adapt to others different personalities. That idea that there is one 'neurotypical' type that we should be pushed into is as ridiculous as suggesting we should all be the same shape, size and colour.

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Simon Seligman's avatar

So painful and frightening to read (as a human being, let alone father of two neruo-diverse children), so enraging that these repulsive turds have so much traction. In my view, their discourse all sits in the neighbourhood of the notion of a 'master race', a term they know not to use, but which sits like a malevolent chimney, belching out its smoke from the furnaces consuming the different, the weak, the needy, the unwell, the bolshy, the questioning, the foreign (and for old times sake, probably the jews, disabled, queer and roma). We should only care about and pay for white, English-speaking, unthinkingly patriotic and 'normal' folk who are straight, so-called neuro-typical, beer-loving, royalty/trump/strong-men-genuflecting, empire-nostalgic types. What's lost on their cheerleaders - take a good look at Farage, Kennedy, Tommy Robinson and all the other drek - is that they are the very last samples of DNA any self-respecting master race would seek to breed from. They are masters of nothing more than being able to appeal to the venal that I suppose in some degree sits within us all.

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