animita saha

Mathews, NC

animita signed the petition | 4 months ago

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Sanction Syria
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Every Student Deserves to Attend a Great School
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Shame on Pat Robertson: "Divorce Your Wife with Alzheimer’s"
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Reverse decision to try 12 y/o Cristian Fernandez as an adult
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South Africa: Take Action to Stop 'Corrective Rape'
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Stop the crackdown on WikiLeaks
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Malta: Save Libyan Civilians and Grant Asylum to Libyan Pilots
animita commented on the article | over 2 years ago

Words Don't Always Say What You Think They Do

I am amazed at the similarities between Charlie and my son Anan. We have been pondering about similar situations right now. My son is also verbally limited and uses lot of words which at times seems out of place or with no particular relevance. I often think it is used for a particular purpose. Yesterday we were visiting mountains here in North Carolina and as I showed him some mountain peaks while driving, he sang a song which had words "sky high". Music is his "thing" just like Charlie and they share the same birthday as well.

The problem that we encounter often is similar to what you talked about. He often ask for either water or coke or icecream but not actually interested in them. I have observed he used those words when he is anxious, I am not sure if this is based on past experience when in school they used icecream as a reinforcer. Your blog about this topic is so timely and confirms my gut feeling that we need to most probably help him to recover from his anxiety instead of getting bogged down on actual words that he is using.

The recent achievement that he has is to spend a week in a sleep away camp in mountains organized by Autism Society of North Carolinas and it seems that he liked it .

Kristina, if you do not mind I would like to meet you next time I am in New Jersey, mainly because I am an avid reader of your blog and it has helped me a lot and also because of the striking similarities between anan (13 years old) and charlie.

Thanks

Animita
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Tell President Obama to fully fund IDEA
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Community Choice Act in Health Care Reform!