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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Children’s Lit
Nate still loves kids’ books. Whenever we go to the library or book store, he heads straight for the children’s section. Picture it: a 21 1/2-year-old behemoth, sitting on the floor with legs crossed, or stretched out on his stomach, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Autism, Children's Books, College, Hyperlexia, Interaction, Mission of Complex, Primitive art, SUNY-Cobleskill
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Good Morning to You, Too!
Kind words to start our day: The Katz’, Mission of Complex: Our Journey Through Hyperlexia. I could never explain the love and wonder that this blog has brought me. As one of the first blogs I have followed, the journey … Continue reading
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Back to School
This week brought Nate’s return to SUNY-Cobleskill. He’s set to graduate at the end of the semester, words I never thought I’d write, or say, or even think. While getting the newspapers and bottles together for a trip to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Autism, Back to School, College, Grades, Hyperlexia, Mission of Complex, Rodney Dangerfield, SUNY-Cobleskill, Writing
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Who’s Autistic?
Sorry to have been gone all week. I’ve been working on other writing projects. During the last week, I read with great interest the stories regarding the American Psychiatric Association’s impending changes in the definition of autism. Anyone who has … Continue reading
No Common Criminal
I have Google Alerts set for lots of things, one is “autism.” It ends up being too wide a topic; the stories too numerous. One caught my eye, not in a good way, and dovetails into a recent post on … Continue reading
A Different Light
When I write about Nate, and our experiences raising Nate, I’m keenly aware that we don’t have a story that all can share equally. Perhaps among parents with hyperlexic children we resonate most fully, but autism unfolds over a very … Continue reading
Alpha Folks
In early November I wrote a post titled The Next Step. There’s a picture of Nate in his “C Boy” T-shirt and a bit of an explanation on how that came to be. Nate took an independent study course last … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe InDesign, Alpha Folks, Autism, College, Hyperlexia, Independence, Mission of Complex, Nate Katz, SUNY-Cobleskill, The C Boy
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Technology in the Wrong Hands
Sometimes Nate will watch a movie with us. It’s hard to predict what films grab him. He wouldn’t watch the final Harry Potter with us, though he was the one who bought it. He did watch Our Idiot Brother, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Autism, Facebook, Hyperlexia, Interaction, Margin Call, Mission of Complex
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