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From: Carol E. Jones <CEJones>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:27:44 -0400
One more thought: a fabulous 2006 juvenile book called "The Book of Everything" by Guus Kuijer. It takes place in the Netherlands not long after WWII and features Thomas, a very unusual boy who notices everything. His life is such that he has good reason to be afraid much of the time until he meets his neighbor (thought to be a witch) who teaches him how to be afraid of nothing. And until he professes his love (with good result) for the beautiful Eliza who has an artificial leather leg. On the last page of the book, Thomas dreams of the angels in heaven inquiring about his health, for they are all hopelessly in love with him. Jesus tells the angels "'none of you would have the slightest chance with Thomas. None of you has a leather leg that creaks when you walk.' That was too much for them. Every single one of them was extraordinarily beautiful, but none had a leather leg. You can't have everything."
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:03:17 -0500 From: "Brothers, Deborah" <Deborah.Brothers at llcc.edu> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Something else regarding my son and Curious
Incident To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <34109F786A54C24C8A519F200C34AE75515A9D at xepsilon.llcc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I posted a couple days ago about my son (who has Asperger's) reading Haddon's book and his response to Christopher, the protagonist. I wanted to follow up a little, if you'll not mind my being so personal.
My son, Galen, also loves Sherlock Holmes stories, and after reading The Curious Incident decided that his research paper (that was his Freshman year in high school) was going to deal with the fact that the very traits that made Christopher seem "odd" were the ones that served him best as a "detective."
I helped him to search for articles that might frame autism spectrum diagnoses in a more positive light, and we found some. In fact, one of the more interesting, although certainly not academic, was an article about a school on the east coast that, essentially, has students use their autistic traits to their advantage in research, focus, depth of a subject, memory skills, etc.
Anyway, the paper he wrote was incredible--and I don't say this lightly--reading that novel and writing that paper changed Galen's outlook and his life. Interestingly, at about the same time, Dan Akroyd was interviewed on Terry Gross's "Fresh Air" program, and he shared that he, too, had the same diagnosis of Asperger's. Galen is a huge fan of Akroyd's (and almost as good an impersonator as D.A.) and that, too, was positive.
Thanks and best to you all--
Deborah
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:27:44 -0400
One more thought: a fabulous 2006 juvenile book called "The Book of Everything" by Guus Kuijer. It takes place in the Netherlands not long after WWII and features Thomas, a very unusual boy who notices everything. His life is such that he has good reason to be afraid much of the time until he meets his neighbor (thought to be a witch) who teaches him how to be afraid of nothing. And until he professes his love (with good result) for the beautiful Eliza who has an artificial leather leg. On the last page of the book, Thomas dreams of the angels in heaven inquiring about his health, for they are all hopelessly in love with him. Jesus tells the angels "'none of you would have the slightest chance with Thomas. None of you has a leather leg that creaks when you walk.' That was too much for them. Every single one of them was extraordinarily beautiful, but none had a leather leg. You can't have everything."
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1. Something else regarding my son and Curious Incident
(Brothers, Deborah)
2. Disabilities (Ruth I. Gordon)
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:03:17 -0500 From: "Brothers, Deborah" <Deborah.Brothers at llcc.edu> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Something else regarding my son and Curious
Incident To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <34109F786A54C24C8A519F200C34AE75515A9D at xepsilon.llcc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I posted a couple days ago about my son (who has Asperger's) reading Haddon's book and his response to Christopher, the protagonist. I wanted to follow up a little, if you'll not mind my being so personal.
My son, Galen, also loves Sherlock Holmes stories, and after reading The Curious Incident decided that his research paper (that was his Freshman year in high school) was going to deal with the fact that the very traits that made Christopher seem "odd" were the ones that served him best as a "detective."
I helped him to search for articles that might frame autism spectrum diagnoses in a more positive light, and we found some. In fact, one of the more interesting, although certainly not academic, was an article about a school on the east coast that, essentially, has students use their autistic traits to their advantage in research, focus, depth of a subject, memory skills, etc.
Anyway, the paper he wrote was incredible--and I don't say this lightly--reading that novel and writing that paper changed Galen's outlook and his life. Interestingly, at about the same time, Dan Akroyd was interviewed on Terry Gross's "Fresh Air" program, and he shared that he, too, had the same diagnosis of Asperger's. Galen is a huge fan of Akroyd's (and almost as good an impersonator as D.A.) and that, too, was positive.
Thanks and best to you all--
Deborah
-- Deborah Brothers, Ph.D. Professor of English and Humanities ________________________________ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:26:18 -0700 From: "Ruth I. Gordon" <druthgo at sonic.net> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Disabilities To: CCBC Net <ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <A446630E-56E1-49FA-A274-60380171ADC4 at sonic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed In Hilary McKay's latest, "Caddy Ever After," there is a fine, sensitive scene in which Rose sees Sarah not as a girl in a wheelchair, but as someone noticeable because she and little Rose share something. The chapter begins on page 51, narrated by Indigo about Sarah. It is fine, fine writing and looks into the heart of deeply human people. (I'm in tears as I write this.) Big Grandma ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CCBC-Net mailing list CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe... http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net End of CCBC-Net Digest, Vol 15, Issue 17 ****************************************Received on Thu 19 Oct 2006 12:27:44 PM CDT
