tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2213276605217463150.post7646074636916523801..comments2023-10-28T06:13:55.023-03:00Comments on Runman: Roller Coasters - or - Why we're going to the Disney Marathonjypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01105669108222678038noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2213276605217463150.post-55799458811000170162012-01-18T10:59:43.419-04:002012-01-18T10:59:43.419-04:00Asia has a similar love of roller coasters. I have...Asia has a similar love of roller coasters. I have the Cedar Point website on my computer for her to look at all the coasters. She'd rather go to Cedar Point than about anyplace else. Has Alex ever been there? It was so fun to read your accounts on FB about the Disney trip. So glad you had a good time.adairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420628769250624472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2213276605217463150.post-53101497946771896562012-01-01T04:42:07.621-04:002012-01-01T04:42:07.621-04:00Fantastic to think of Alex finally getting to go o...Fantastic to think of Alex finally getting to go on some really great (ie absolutely terrifying to me!) roller coasters. I remember the passion and those pictures from long ago, and the boy Alex now a man. What a bunch of great people we have bred, us autistic grannies :)dinahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06020026452554970584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2213276605217463150.post-80524894749517957382012-01-01T01:20:38.458-04:002012-01-01T01:20:38.458-04:00Enjoy both the linear acceleration (running) and t...Enjoy both the linear acceleration (running) and the angular (rollercoastering) :-)!<br />When Jeremy was little we used to go to Storyland, in Conway NH, a theme park for younger children. They have a gorgeous vintage turn-of-the-20th-century gravity-driven rollercoaster -- way too gentle by 21st-century big-kid standards, but perfect for tots. Jeremy *loved* it but I was white-knuckled and queasy all the way down, because of my lack of vestibular function. (When I was 8 years old, I contracted encephalitis as a complication of the mumps and it destroyed the auditory and vestibular nerves on my left side. After about 2 weeks of awful vertigo, my brain learned to notch out the vestibular feedback from my right side, and I've functioned ever since with essentially no vestibular input. Proprioception is entirely through vision for me. Apparently rollercoasters are an edge case in which that adaptation doesn't work so well for me :-(.)Phil Schwarznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2213276605217463150.post-61416125943020164672011-12-31T18:35:11.021-04:002011-12-31T18:35:11.021-04:00Alex and Jypsy:
Hope you have a wonderful experie...Alex and Jypsy:<br /><br />Hope you have a wonderful experience of the Marathon and the roller coasters.<br /><br />(One of my own favourites is probably the Mad Mouse. It is a travelling roller coaster that comes to the big agricultural shows).Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.com