Archive for the ‘Family’ Category
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
As an autistic person, Gabriel likes to ask the same question repeatedly over the course of many minutes, hours, and days. This is most noticeable when the answer doesn’t change. One summer, 2007 or perhaps 2008, was punctuated by his request for a set of three toy sharks for Christmas ...
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
Talking to someone on the autism spectrum can be like talking to a genius for whom English is a second language. The way Gabriel turns a phrase usually is the correct way; and when it's not, it should be.
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Autism might be a magnification of tendencies we all share. We're labeled autistic when we do not limit certain behaviors that all people have. We're mainstreamed when we learn to limit the behaviors.
Obsession is just one of the autistic behaviors I've seen, for example in Gabriel's passion ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
I am a prodigy among the Eternal people. Before my peers know it is possible, I learn to remove what is not my essential being, leaving only my self. I surprise my teachers because I have learned to be my self without express guidance. The lessons for removing non self ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
"Pain is completely subjective. It is whatever the patient says it is."
- Nursing textbook
I don't want to say what the pain is
- sheets of acid raining down my skull
- glass shards slicing tendons pre-seared by red heat
- icicle, tearing gobbets from my now-dry tongue
- the persistent pulse of a now-hated ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
California news generally tells things I don’t want to hear. My first week in California, Polly Klaas was kidnapped, remained top news until found. That was news I really didn’t need three times a day. This shaped my impressions of California journalism.
And then: you know how it is when you ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
"No long sleeves!" Gabriel declared. "Today is a 'shorts day.'" It's 68° F in the shade. We went swimming on Saturday, should have done it the week before, too. We're revelling in take-off-my-windbreaker-because-I'm-sweating days, while the rest of the country is partly cloudy to below freezing.
California does have attractions. No fighting ...
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Tonight the whole family sits watching C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as interpreted in 2005 by Disney films.
It turned out to be age inappropriate. Gabe started the movie saying this one will be part of his collection. Afterwards Gabe was A-OK to have it ...
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Christmas Eve service was pleasant, a candle-light contemporary service with just the right mix of Jesus and accoustic guitar. Mikaela didn’t scream at Deb or me for singing, which was alone worth the price of admission. Gabe held our candle and blew it out only at the correct time.
I managed ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
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