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“If you’re treading quicksand in the swamp of what-might- have-been, you can be sure that’s the message your child gets. You’re a rare person if being constantly reminded of your shortcomings spurs you to improve. For the rest of us, it’s a self-esteem squasher. Time to grab for that overhead vine and realize that only a pencil dot separates “bitter” and “better.”
― Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
― Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
“Think of it as affirmative brainwashing. The more you articulate your child’s strengths and gifts, the more both of you grow to believe it.”
― Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
― Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
“Cognitive and social learning cannot break through to a child whose world is intrusively loud, blindingly bright, unbearably malodorous and physically complicated to navigate.”
― Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
― Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
“There is no egg in egg plant, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? If teachers taught, why haven’t preachers praught? We have noses that run and feet that smell. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?”
― Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
― Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
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