Status Updates From Το αγόρι που μιλούσε με του...

I don’t trust a word now argghg

She really slips back and forth between deficit language like broken and some lovely affirmation, which is weird but human I reckon. Her grandpa sounds like he was a wicked smart categorizer, problem solver, and inventor, and with her own lupus, sister’s savant art, and second son’s rare reflex seizures… they exemplify why there is research into auto-immune & IQ genetic connections to ASD.

Uncertain about this so far. She uses deficit language a lot during this early diagnostic period of their story, and it seems to lean toward maternal glory over paternal anything or educator collaboration or or or or. She did start out showcasing her kid’s future awesomeness, so… We’ll see.