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Its my sons favorite carnival of the year, especially since the local Star Wars club brings out their best costumes. Most of these were shot with my 45 and 75 f/1.8.
Autism: "a mental condition, present from early childhood, characterized by great difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts."
Its my sons favorite carnival of the year, especially since the local Star Wars club brings out their best costumes. Most of these were shot with my 45 and 75 f/1.8.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
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This is my boy Jude. Jude is autistic and has special needs. One of the things that I love about photography is the way that a shot can capture or explain things in a simple way. This one encapsulates one of the elements of autism for me. It can be a very lonely and solitary condition for lots of children and adults which means that it's difficult to cope at times. Fortunately, this is only one of many sides that makes up this amazingly little dude. For the most part, he' s the happiest little guy in town. It's our job to keep it that way.
Jude (age 4)
Easter Sunday 2015
Scotland
Labels can be misleading and even hurtful.
Once referred to as 'that asparagus kid', Asperger's Syndrome was retired from DSM in 2013. Now rolled into overall Autism Spectrum Disorder.
But I still enjoy asparagus 😁
For Throwback Thursday. This was taken at the annual Autism Walk in April, 2011 at Jones Stadium at Texas Tech University. Raider Red, the Texas Tech mascot, is on the left, my son (who was 10 at the time) is in the middle, and my husband, who is on the right.
Its my sons favorite carnival of the year, especially since the local Star Wars club brings out their best costumes. Most of these were shot with my 45 and 75 f/1.8.
Its my sons favorite carnival of the year, especially since the local Star Wars club brings out their best costumes. Most of these were shot with my 45 and 75 f/1.8.
Highlands Autism celebrated their 1 year anniversary! Complete with a brunch to honor all of those who helped in the passing of House Bill 159 and a few words from President/ CEO of Highlands Regional Medical Center, Bud Warman & Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo.
Our company are providing autism spectrum illness exhibit social interaction difficulties, problems in verbal and nonverbal communication, as infants may not want to be touched or held, repeats certain words or phrases or physical movements. ( emf.gotoguide.net/educational-videos/ )
Autism affects me in the way that it changes my perspective and worldview. For me, everything sensory is amplified…lights are brighter, things move faster, I can hear a whisper across the apartment. Because of this, it often takes me longer to process information simply because there is too much trying to enter my brain at one time. It can be hard for me to put these experiences into spoken word and I communicate much better through writing. Learning idioms and figurative language has to be studied like someone would study dates for a history exam. I don’t know where I move in space and am prone to injury. I have trouble making and keeping friends because I sometimes like things that are “younger” than my age group but I talk like someone in an older age group. When I am out in public I may not read body language and behavior which can be a dangerous situation depending on where I am. And then there are the personal things I won’t talk about but yeah…that’s a good start.
Its my sons favorite carnival of the year, especially since the local Star Wars club brings out their best costumes. Most of these were shot with my 45 and 75 f/1.8.
I have been touched by the things people have said about my letter to Lael. I wrote it more for myself, I think. I have been obsessed with trying to figure out what made him tick. I am a person who needs to understand every aspect of something that is important to me. And Lael is absolutely in that category.
He's a marvelous little boy and the point I was trying to make is that he is more a gift to me than I am to him...that there's a very real beauty in the simplicity with which he sees his world. It is a simplicity I find far too complex to handle, I think.
In this image, the last I will file of him, he was with us at Fort Edmonton -- a local historical park featuring, oddly enough, a Fort and two "era themed" streets. We took a train back to the station at the end of a long and exhausting day and he was sitting there across from me, looking out the window with such intensity that I was taken aback. Usually, his attentions flit from subject to subject, like a bee chasing pollen.
It took me a long moment of careful study, until I realized he was looking at his own reflection in the glass. He was looking at the window, without seeing OUT of the window, if that makes any sense to you.
What he saw in the face that looked back at him is beyond anything I can grasp. I simply state with absolute conviction that he saw SOMETHING.
My heart is uncommonly full when I think of Lael, because for so long I have not understood where he was coming from. Don't misunderstand: I have WANTED to understand him...I have certainly loved him...I simply haven't been able to connect with him. It's been an ongoing source of guilt and frustration to me.
His parents left him and his four siblings with us for several days while they went to a wedding. I really wanted to use the time to break through the wall between Lael and me without really understanding HOW that would happen. I approached it with the intention of bulling through all opposition.
It was only when I realized that Lael speaks in silence...in sounds expressing pure emotion...in unbridled yet completely misunderstood delight...that I started to understand.
I needed to stop trying to stuff HIM into MY world context...and to step into his. Admittedly, my steps faltered and were more than a trifle uncertain. But I felt my heart magically grow and instantly, a place popped into existence with the clearly labeled name "LAEL" on it.
It is a grand relief.
So I am not posting this image in an effort to wring emotionalism out of the subject. On the contrary: I am posting it to celebrate a little boy -- a traveler through our world even though he is not precisely OF this world. I am posting it because of his decision (conscious or not) to celebrate his life in ways I can never understand...and not become some listless and tragic over medicated self-outcast.
The posting doesn't have anything to do with feedback...or comments...or Explore.
I am posting it because I am proud of Lael.
So meet my grandson. His name is Lael. He's autistic. Anyone who is uncomfortable with that will simply have to get over it...or find a place where their world will not be upset by the notion it contains people who see things in a radically different manner than they do.
He's not handicapped. He's just Lael. He is precisely who he has been made to be. And Lael fricking rocks.
And, in the words of that great philosopher Forrest Gump, "That's all I have to say about that."
Get mcuck'd
MUH POWERFUL AUTOCANNON 1000 ROUNDS PER MINUTEOMG
MUH AWESOME 48MM INFANTRY GUN LMAO xD
THE SUPER COOL REALLY POWERFUL 58MM ANTI TANK GUN
THIS CAN SHOOT VERRY FAR DUDE LOLZ
MUH ALL NEW 76MM HOWITZER SO COOL WOW
SUPAR AMAZEBALLZS 105MM HOWITZER
BIGGEST MOST AWESOME GUN!!!1!!1!!1!!!
FASTEST PLANE EVA!!!1!!
160MPH xD LOLZ
Not pictured:
Naval guns- Fuck you. They are guns, they shoot. What more do you want.
Credits:
RIP lego Flick 2010-2016
It was fun while it lasted.
Its my sons favorite carnival of the year, especially since the local Star Wars club brings out their best costumes. Most of these were shot with my 45 and 75 f/1.8.
ضمن فعاليات مهرجان (أطفال التوحد في عيون سلطان الخير) برعاية كريمة من صاحب السمو الملكي الأمير سلطان بن عبد العزيز آل سعود الذي اننطلق فعالياته خلال الفترة من 8-11/إبريل/2010م بتنظيم مركز والدة الأمير فيصل بن فهد للتوحد بالرياض بالتعاون مع جامعة الملك سعود كانت مشاركتي بهذه الصوره
.شعار التوحد هو قطع لعبة التركيبة فهي تعكس التعقيد والغموض الذي يتسم به اضطراب التوحد
.طفل التوحد يعاني من مشاكل في اللغة والتخاطب ولذلك يصعب عليه شرح مابداخله
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Puzzle pieces are used as an emblem for autism spectrum disorders and that’s because puzzle pattern reflects the mystery and complexity of the autism spectrum.
Autistic child suffers from speech and language difficulties that’s why it's difficult for him to express himself and share his feelings
" It been shown time and time again how constructive music education is in all areas of cognitive development, but it also proves to be especially helpful to those with ASD. "
Sources and more information
* Autism Spectrum Disorder & Music [infographic], dailyinfographic, OCTOBER 24, 2014.
* More about ASD, autism and infographics.
Was a little down this afternoon so I headed off to the old girls in Clunes. Thought I'd have a quick explore around a creek I played in as a kid and found this. Pitty all the sunny days are gone otherwise I'd retake this during the golden hour. Oh well. This was a 3 shot HDR. Wasn't very beneficial using HDR over a single RAW but I went to the trouble of doing it so I used it.
- Clunes Creek