A Loose Tooth, Language and Vaccines

Published: June 30, 2008, 1:05 am

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Late Sunday afternoon Charlie was hanging around the front door when I looked at him and saw that three of his left hand fingers were bloody, and then noticed a similar Hawaiian Punch-like stain on his left cheek and a little white wadded-up-paper-looking-thing in his right thumb and finger…. “You lost a tooth!” I said. “Tooth!” said Charlie and grinned and, when I asked, handed me the tooth (from the upper left part of his mouth, where he has two more new ones already coming in). I thought: No wonder he kept chewing on the front of his t-shirt on Saturday afternoon, and picked up bits of food with his fingers and put them carefully into his mouth, and kept thrusting his head forward like a stork and closing his eyes in a kind of repetitive way. Had the lower part of his face been tingling in pain? Not being able to feel pain–physical and emotional—is one of those myths of autism that’s had too long a life. Charlie’s language is

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