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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 13271" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We met Temple Grandin when difficult child 3 was in Kindergarten - she was out in Australia and addressed a conference I attended. She was inspirational. I've talked about her a lot to both my boys, to encourage them (especially difficult child 1) that he can do anything, with support and enough drive.</p><p></p><p>I don't like it when people label an autistic person who appears to be functioning well, as "cured" - I consider it as "successfully adapted". If autism were curable, Temple Grandin would not have used the title "An Anthropologist on Mars" for one of her books. They always feel like outsiders looking in, always have to remember to do 'normal' things. difficult child 3 described it when he was 8 as "pretending to be normal". Both my boys now heartily embrace their autism because they see it as a good thing - they have talents and abilities they otherwise wouldn't have, and they are learning to mask the aspects that bother other people.</p><p></p><p>At the beach yesterday evening difficult child 3 & I met a 6 year old high-functioning autistic boy of our acquaintance. To most people this boy seems normal, he's already very good at blending in. But he was having so much fun playing in the water that he 'forgot to be normal'; and just let it all hang out - stims, obsessionality, the whole hand-flapping stuff - because of the pure joy he was experiencing in watching the waves wash in and out around a stick he'd poked into the sand. It was lovely to see. I know this boy will do well in life - at 6 he's already been designing electronic circuits and inventing things, for several years. An amazing kid. difficult child 3 is a bright kid, but he's in awe.</p><p></p><p>We don't get any TV program called "The View" - what is it? Anything like "60 Minutes"?</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 13271, member: 1991"] We met Temple Grandin when difficult child 3 was in Kindergarten - she was out in Australia and addressed a conference I attended. She was inspirational. I've talked about her a lot to both my boys, to encourage them (especially difficult child 1) that he can do anything, with support and enough drive. I don't like it when people label an autistic person who appears to be functioning well, as "cured" - I consider it as "successfully adapted". If autism were curable, Temple Grandin would not have used the title "An Anthropologist on Mars" for one of her books. They always feel like outsiders looking in, always have to remember to do 'normal' things. difficult child 3 described it when he was 8 as "pretending to be normal". Both my boys now heartily embrace their autism because they see it as a good thing - they have talents and abilities they otherwise wouldn't have, and they are learning to mask the aspects that bother other people. At the beach yesterday evening difficult child 3 & I met a 6 year old high-functioning autistic boy of our acquaintance. To most people this boy seems normal, he's already very good at blending in. But he was having so much fun playing in the water that he 'forgot to be normal'; and just let it all hang out - stims, obsessionality, the whole hand-flapping stuff - because of the pure joy he was experiencing in watching the waves wash in and out around a stick he'd poked into the sand. It was lovely to see. I know this boy will do well in life - at 6 he's already been designing electronic circuits and inventing things, for several years. An amazing kid. difficult child 3 is a bright kid, but he's in awe. We don't get any TV program called "The View" - what is it? Anything like "60 Minutes"? Marg [/QUOTE]
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