Travels with Charlie |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 1:14 am |
| Tags: literature, new jersey, metaphor, water, parenting, classics, weblogs, books, america, asd, aspergers, autism, autism spectrum disorder, children, health, john steinbeck, literature, mythology, odysseus, parenting, pdd nos, travel |
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Travels with Charlie is a title I would much like to use for the book I’m writing (very slowly) about Charlie, autism, and education. As Jim has pointed out to me, that title—-with “Charlie” spelled the other way, “Charley”—has already been taken, by the great California writer John Steinbeck for his Travels with Charley: In Search of America, Charley being his French poodle. Travel is the theme for this month’s b5media Science and Health Channel Theme Day and travel is one my favorite metaphors to describe our life with Charlie in what I have sometimes called “Autismland,” a word meant to capture the sense of how raising an autistic child is an experience perhaps quite different from what one might have imagined. Different, and different (for me, for Jim), in a wholly “posautive” way. Charlie’s has truly been an unexpected childhood—-and, I guess I might say, my parenting him an “unexpected [ Full article ] |
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