Stepping Out

Although I am constantly learning, I am not currently a going-out-to-meetings-in-the-evening type of person (who is?)...(I did that for enough years when I was younger...) but last night I went to a nice event...as a BU alum (my doctorate), I was invited to an evening about autism. I took a friend and local autism consultant. Good food, old friends, a little new information. Interesting that the questions asked by audience members were those that I had...what did these experts think about Jenny McCarthy? What about decreased funding for EI in Massachusetts? What did they think about the pending collapse of PDD-NOS and Asperger's Syndome into Autism...? I had a small, private laugh that just a few years ago when I was on the faculty at Lesley University it could have been me on the panel, acting as an expert on autism. In some ways I am...I do know a lot. But what makes an expert? We are all in this together.

Did I learn a lot? Not really. But, it was really good to be in the company of like-minded people...