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Hyperlexicon: May 2012

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Days in the life of a Hyperlexia family. Friday, May 18, 2012. My boy's stim is pretending. Some kids flap their hands or jump up and down or spin or make unusual noise. Ben re-enacts scenes from movies and TV shows. Believe me. I've tried. Sadly, most of the time. Ben seems to view the world as an improv game and everyone in it as his improv troupe. He is constantly making offers, which is the improv term for establishing a imagined reality by simply starting a scene with another person without disc...

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Hyperlexicon: Can you direct me to the concierge?

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Days in the life of a Hyperlexia family. Sunday, October 7, 2007. Can you direct me to the concierge? When we went to Italy several years ago, I bought a cassette tape that I listened to in my car for a few months so I could pick up enough Italian to survive as a tourist (which, as it turns out, really isn’t very much.). But communication with people is scary when your system is built on predictability. Communication is unpredictable. Most of us call this chatting. Chatting is what people do ...For Ben, ...

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Hyperlexicon: Five Years Old

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Days in the life of a Hyperlexia family. Tuesday, January 20, 2009. You are turning five years old today. You're a big kid now - at least, this is what I keep telling you. Especially when you continue to insist on eating spaghetti one noodle at a time with your fingers or still ask me to carry your 43 pound self from one place to another. But you have grown into an amazing big kid, and you do so many things now that I could not have imagined. You hadn't known until then that good people - not just witche...

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Hyperlexicon: An epidemic?

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Days in the life of a Hyperlexia family. Wednesday, April 4, 2012. I was asked last night to comment on the new CDC statistics about how 1 in 88 children are now considered to be on the autism spectrum. How did I feel about the use of the word "epidemic" that often accompanies this piece of information? Or what about the dismissal of these numbers as proof of lazy parents seeking a fad diagnosis to explain their children's' bad behavior? While we're getting better at identifying variations and labeling t...

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Hyperlexicon: Presenting: Flummox and Friends

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Days in the life of a Hyperlexia family. Thursday, November 1, 2012. Presenting: Flummox and Friends. Ever since Ben was diagnosed with autism, he’s benefited greatly from extra support at school for those things that just don’t come naturally for him, particularly the unspoken rules of social interaction. I wish I had a nickel - okay, maybe a dollar - for every time another parent, one with a so-called typically developing kid, asked me how their. How can I get that for my kid? That struggle - to a grea...

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SWEET ANIMAL: Pissed Off

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Sunday, November 20, 2011. Wonder where he gets it. But staring in blank dismay seems to be the order of the evening; staring at my laptop screen, actually, and not at any real person, which just underscores the volatility (as in fleeting, flying away, particulate, rather than unstable or dangerous) of the interchanges rendering me so… pissed off. And there’s nothing I can do about it. I’m just pissed off. For no good reason. A good reason to be pissed off? But on the internet, nothing. Yet here I am.

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Putting things into words | Don't Panic 2.0

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Don't Panic 2.0. Finding Ourselves on the Autism Spectrum. Putting things into words. April 8, 2011. Image by redmaxwell via Flickr. OK, I’m sort of having a little “aha” moment here, and the challenge I’m finding getting the moment into words to share actually relates to what the moment is about. I’m in the middle of watching a very cool speech by Temple Grandin at the TED Conference, which you can find here:. Http:/ www.eileenparker.com/2010/03/temple-grandins-speech-at-the-ted-conference/. I learned a...

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. About Us, Not Without Us. Disability in the News. Amplification: Ferguson Protesters’ Open Letter. #BlackLivesMatter. November 25, 2014. The Results Are In. An Open Letter from Protestors On The Grand Jury Decision (11.24.14). In Ferguson, a wound bleeds. After 108 days, that bleeding wound has been reopened, salt poured in, insult added to the deepest of injury. On August 9. The results are in. And we still don’t have justice. So you will likely ask yo...

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. About Us, Not Without Us. Disability in the News. Newer posts →. Disability History 101 – The Rise of the Institution. April 23, 2012. Institutionalization: a core part of what many think of when talking about our history of disability in the United States. But where did the practice come from? Institutions and Mental Health Disabilities. Suicide attempts weren’t the only crimes or “crimes” that a person with a mental health disability...When the idea o...