Mr Cheney's blogging task: Ted Talk

1) https://www.ted.com/talks/steve_silberman_the_forgotten_history_of_autism#t-813288

2) Steve Silberman is an American writer based in San Francisco, California. Silberman is best known as a writer for Wired magazine, where he has been an editor and contributor for 14 years. In 2010, Silberman was awarded the AAAS "Kavli Science Journalism Award for Magazine Writing." His featured article "The Placebo Problem discussed the impact of placebos on the pharmaceutical industry.

Silberman's 2015 book about autism and neurodiversity was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize. Silberman's Wired article "The Geek Syndrome", which focused on autism in Silicon Valley, has been referenced by many sources and has been described as a culturally significant article for the autism community. Silberman's Twitter account made Time magazine's list of the best Twitter feeds for the year 2011.

3) The reason why I think we should watch this Ted Talk is because it helps us understand people that have a different condition than we do. Even though according to the Ted Talk, the amounts of autisim people that are there is starting to become more and more common, it is still not common enough for everyone in this class to say that they know and have met a child the has autisim. However, we can not be sure if we will encounter a person so different from the way we are, so we must prepare to understand the way they think. It is common that autisim children are very intellegent in a certain area. For example, one child could be extrodinarily brilliant in music while in their condition. This also proves that these types of kids should not be recognized as ¨idiotic¨ but, they should be recognized as geniouses. That is because that is what they think and how they embrase it.  These kids are incredible at what natural talent he was born with, and we need to understand that.

Terror brought by the Titanic

I was lying in my bed, when all of a sudden I felt a sudden change in flooring. The ground (at least, I thought it was the ground) was harder, colder and more unstable. I opened my eyes, I saw a beautifully lit sky with stars of all sorts. This defiantly was outside, the option of that I just rolled off the bed wasn't there any more. I heard water brush along on what I thought was a ship. Water? Ship? Is this really happening? I got up and started racing around the ship. Then, I saw the name. No! This can't be! I was horrified with just seeing the ships name, let alone being on it. I was in the Titanic!

I must have felt crazy! Many of the inmates were in the same situation as me. As I crept around their bodies, I tried to remember their faces. Oh yes, it might be them. It seemed to be every one from school. "Krishotha?" I heard someone ask from behind me. I slowly turned around. Luckily for me, it was only Reesa. It seems she had also found Connie, Mariam and Shaili too. I felt devastated, not because they were alive. Exactly HOW did we all get here?! I heard foot steps. Could it be the crew? I shined a flashlight that I found on a barrel. "Agh!" someone said. "It's only us relax!" I tilted the flashlight. It was Philip! It seems to me he found the rest of 8A too. Let's see...
Illiaz=here
Kisho=here
Christian=here
Ressa=here
Jonathon=here
Priscilla=here
Philip=here
Mariam=here
Hassan=here
Amanjot=here
Keirthanan=here
Abinesh=here
Shaili=here
Connie=here
Ashante=here
Tanvir=here
Aaron=here
Kainaat=here
Khalil=here
Jena=here
Renee=here
And Vinusa=here
Not to mention...me!
My heart sunk! This was COMPLETELY ridicules! Our entire class was in the Titanic. "What do we do?!" Jena cried. For the first time, in a long time, I hadn't the slightest clue.

"We jump off that's what we do!" someone said. "Who said that!" Amanjot said. I was surprised none of the crew members even bothered to come and figure out what we were doing. "I did!" said Jonathon. "Are you INSANE?!" asked Jena. If you ask me about Jonathan's idea, I'd say very. "Jonathan, that may be a good idea, but some of us can't swim at all. We need all of us to survive here." said Aaron. "Then what are we supposed to do?!" Kisho cried. "As Philip was leading us all, dashing over here, I noticed some life boats. We are going to have to guess our way home. If we end up somewhere else, then we'll call home and do our best to find ways to get home." Keirthanan said. "Alright Keirthanan, can you lead us to the life boats?" I asked. He nodded and he started to run. Along with the rest of the class,I raced after him.

It must have been days. We were all tired and hungry. We split into teams with the amount of lifeboats. There were 11 of them, and 23 of us. Just as I thought, all of us were here. I jumped in my boat, I was with Jena and Reesa. We were the only group of 3. Reesa and I were rowing while Jena was guiding our entire class, the lookout for our class. "Over there! I see land!" said Jena. Everyone rowed with all of their might, we ended up at the harbor. As we walked around I noticed, we were in London.

We kept roaming the streets together, nervous. Until I saw someone I recognized. "Krishotha? How did you get here?" someone said. Could it be? No, it couldn't, could it? He lit up his flashlight. It was! My cousin Barathy found us! "Who is this lot you have here?" he asked. "Those are my classmates. We all washed up here from sea." I replied.I did a head count, phew! Everyone was still here. My cousin took me and the rest of 8A to his house, where I was re-united with my aunt and my other cousin Bhairavy. I asked my aunt to give my mom a call. If it was night here, it may be morning there. Of course, I was prepared for her to start yelling at me because she was worried. I was also prepared for her to be in a traumatic shock and call everyone else's mother or father, but I didn't mind, they need to know.

Everyone's parents bolted out o the plane, including brothers sisters and even babies. It was a good thing my mother knew my aunt's address. She lead everyone right to us. Some people started to cry and started running towards their parents. Others were so dumbfounded that they were alive they blindly walked towards their parents. We all got tickets to go home. I was so relieved to be alive, and that everyone else was alive as well. I didn't want anything to do with this, but it was due to everyone's efforts, everyone survived.