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Reading the News, Thinking about Charlie |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 5:59 am |
| Tags: toys, food and diet, charlisms, living arrangements, health, neuroscience, animal rights, animals, asd, aspergers, autism, children, dora the explorer, education, elmo, family, house, new york times, news, newspaper, obesity, octagon, parenting, pdd nos |
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Once upon a time, when I sat down to read the newspaper, I just read it: Front page, arts, book reviews, world news, skip the sports. Now I sit down in front of my laptop to read, and get up mid-story if I hear Charlie calling—-and, inevitably, much of what I read is through the lens of Charlie, and of autism. For example: Eating gluten-free in NYC has gotten easier. (Though I think Charlie, who is more or less on the diet at home, and less or more on it when we eat out, is quite content with his favorite New York food emporium.) People are “most likely to become obese when a friend becomes obese“: Maybe it is not such a bad thing to have a differently functioning mirror neuron system, as some researchers say autistic persons do—imitation is not always exactly the best form of flattery, perhaps. Charlie was never, ever, as hard on any of his toys as the Chinese product testers in Dancing Elmo Smackdown were on the fuzzy red monster in the chicken suit, or on [ Full article ] |
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