Can you imagine taking a 45 minute flight over Rome and being able to recreate an accurate, almost blueprint-like drawing of what you saw? Watch the "living camera" Stephen as he does just that. Stephen has autism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBQZ9maHXSk
After reading a post about Jeffrey I've been thinking about people who have autism. Jeffrey's mom has a great blog that I read faithfully and...haven't said it in a while....I love her name...Ginger Carter Miller, Ph.D. Ginger talks about how the process of diagnosis has changed. Jeffrey is an adult now. And he sounds like a fine young man. He's gifted with a memory for facts especially Nascar!
I ran into a friend at the bakery who adopted a child from China then as sometimes happens, she became pregnant. Both children developed autism. She went back to school to become a teacher so she could help them. Amazing.
This is International Autism Awareness Month. And I want to be more aware of the challenges for these children, adults and families are facing. And along with awareness....they have my respect, admiration and prayers.
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
The Living Camera
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The increase in Autism is deeply alarming. I didn't know it was Autism Awareness month, thanks for your post.
I loved this post. I love Rome and watching it again brought back such good memories from my visit there in 2006. He was amazing. I could tell you what the buildings were, but there would be no way I could remember how many columns everything has. Really very cool. I'm going to link to your blog on this one!
Thanks for making us aware! What a great story.
What a fascinating video! Thank you for this post and for raising awareness!
Thanks for doing a post on Autism, my niece Carly is severely autistic and she was two before she was finally diagnosed.
Thank you for the love and support you send us every day, Alex! We love you!
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