So I have a new hobby, now that the book is done. I’m identifying places where our society uses plastic unnecessarily (thus poisoning our planet further). I’m hoping someone will figure out how these ideas can be transmitted to the industries involved, so that changes will be made.

Here are a couple of ideas, based simply on my being old. In the old days . . .

Milk cartons were just waxed cardboard, without the little plastic spout. To open them, you just unfolded one of the ends and—voila!—an automatic cardboard spout. It’s true the the end sometimes didn’t unfold right andyou got a leaky spout,but at least there was no plastic.

Tissues came in cardboard boxes the way they do today—but without the little plastic film around the opening. The film does make it easier to get out a single tissue, but it’s not really necessary.

There are lots of ways of getting plastic out of our oceans and landfills.

What are your ideas?

And I hope the

And school districts all over the country can’t find special education teachers to work with kids with disabilities. See https://sites.ed.gov/osers/2023/05/high-standards-innovative-solutions-how-some-states-are-addressing-the-special-educator-shortage-crisis/

Meanwhile, parents who complain about how their kids are being treated in school are being harrassed, and even banned from school grounds. See https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2023/08/22/feds-investigating-school-district-accused-banning-parent-retaliation/30508/

And for some reason, all the editing functions are off on WordPress, so I can’t make those URLs live links. Sorry.

https://uniquelyhari.blogspot.com/2023/07/time-magazine-article.html

This is like all the traditional medical research done on White men that was supposed to apply to people of other colors and women, but didn’t. If you only study one group of autistics, you really won’t understand autism.