When asked to smile, he photographs a rictus-smile on his face.
It long forbade all naturalistic films. They were Adult movies.
if
they
(that is, he)
are bad the police will put them in hospital.
He sometimes drew the farm amid Chinese or Balinese rice terraces.
When a runaway, he made uproar in the police station, playing at
three times adult speed.
Only animated films were proper. Who Framed Roger Rabbi t then
authorize the rest.
Phrases spoken to him he would take as teaching, and repeat.
When he worshipped fruit, he screamed as if poisoned when it was fed
to him.
A one-word first conversation:
Blane.
-
Yes! Plane, that's right, baby! Blane.
He has forgotten nothing, and remembers the precise quality of
expenences.
It
requires rulings:
Is stealing very playing up,
as
bad as murder?
He counts at a glance, not looking. And he has never been lost.
When he ate only nuts and dried fruit, words were for dire emergencies.
He knows all the breeds of fowls, and the counties of Ireland.
He'd begun to talk, then returned to babble, then silence. It withdrew
speech for years.
Is that very autistic, to play video games in the day?
He is anger's mirror, and magnifies any near him, raging it down .
It still won't allow him fresh fruit, or orange juice with bits in it.
He swam in the midwinter dam at night.
It
had no rules about cold.
He was terrified of thunder and finally cried as if in explanation
It -
angry!
He grilled an egg he'd broken into bread. Exchanges of soil-knowledge
are called landtalking.
He lives in objectivity. I was sure Bell's palsy would leave my face
only
when he said it had begun to.
Don't say word!
when he was eight forbade the word 'autistic' in his
presence.
Bantering questions about girlfriends cause a terrified look and blocked
ears.
He sometimes centered the farm in a furrowed American Midwest.
Eye contact, Mum!
means he truly wants attention. It dislikes I contact.
He is equitable and kind, and only ever a little jealous. It was a
relief when that little arrived.
He surfs, bowls, walks for miles. For many years he hasn't trailed his
left arm while running.
I gotta get smart!
looking terrified into the years.
I gotta get smart!
