In case you're wondering, the first is an illustration to the Shark Tale and second one is, apparently, Melvin from Madagascar. :)
The central fish I helped him with, the rest is totally his.
His teacher told me today that more than half of 'normal' kids in his group can't do as much as he can. (eye roll) Well, he has to compensate, I guess. :)
I deleted the previous because permission to tell you doen't include permission to tell the world, hmm?
Someday he will be able to tell you how he thinks. I think with word and feeling mostly. Pictures come difficultly to me. Most people primarly kinesthetic, auditory, or visual. I am primarily kinesthetic (feelings as most primary connection to the world) then auditory and rarely visual.
From what we know of autistic children they are overloaded by sensation and have to narrow it down to function. I'd be curious how they do so. And if maybe they start without a primary connection and have to learn to make one primary and establish a hierachy.
What I meant was that perhaps for an autistic child, the kinesthetic, visual, and auditory all swamp him/her at once and become overwhelming in totality of the experience, and that perhaps they have to learn to make one sensory channel primary.
Kinesthetic thinking is about being primarily motivated by the emotion and the location of the body in space. If people in my family move the furniture, I trip over it because I don't *see* as I move through my house. I can move easily in total darkness in a familar environment. I'm just trying to explain this way of thinking. Body memories. Like I am good at (or used to be good at) gymnastics, basketball, and dancing, and many of my memories are tied to the physical feelings of emotion associated with those memories.
I'm not good at *seeing* things. My family often laughs when I say something like, "How long has that building been there?" and the answer is "Oh about three years, diane." Some of that may because I am legally blind without my glasses and thus have little peripheral vision.
Dunno, he seems to be mostly visual now. And he has good ears and can repeat a pretty complicated melody very well. But clumsy. :) Probably inherited my disposition. :)
You may want to read "Upside-Down Brilliance" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193218600X -look up at your library, or actually I could send you my copy (if I can find it, that is)
Yeah, I have a long list of "nice-to-read" books myself, and some of them I eveh have in physical form... Last semester, I actually started reading on train, but I'm not taking train this semester. Pity.
Well, I do read something, you know I can't exist without reading, but it's the stuff that doesn't require any significant brain involvement. I'm not up to processing anything but nursing textbooks (and, just because I really can't abandon it, my fiction) right now. Thank gods it's the last semester.
All my brain chewing gum is online... :) unfortunately, mainly in Russian, so my English is deteriorating slowly. Funny, I recall my English was better than yours some time ago. Noe it's noticeably worse, and ironically - that happens because I'm studying (and hence, I need that chewing gum part to relax... and no time or desire to read in English for pleasure.)
Thanks for the reminding, I have to read a couple of articles for Tuesday... and a book for my job... and maybe even write something... don't remember.
Um, I think now it's my Russian that is deteriorating. I'm getting to be so predominantly English-speaking in my life, that if it was not for LJ, it might have deteriorated to quite a significant level.
Fan-fiction, Marish, is an answer to everything. :D
You just weren't lacky enough to find good ones. Want some recommendations? My favorites are mostly of slash variety, but they are good. And I can recommend some gen too, if you're picky about that.
And, by the way, one can learn a lot from negative examples. :)
Slash means same sex non-canon relationship. In our case (I presume you mean Highlander fan-fic it mostly pictures Mac and Methos as lovers. The majority of best writers in HL fandom write slash, for the reason I don't want to dive into in the moment. :))
OK, here we go. They are mostly my personal favs, mind you, but I think you like them too once you'll get used to the idea. :)
http://www.wordsmiths.net/MacGeorge/index.html - The Broadwalk part featires gen fic, Under the Broadwalk - slash. Both are very good, although some of them may make you 'ewww'. Mostly for violence content. I prefer her slash to her gen.
http://members.shaw.ca/sylviavolk/ - The page for mostly very good gen fic. Here you can find 'Fundamental Things' again and Silvia Volk's fics, of which I read only one, but others were recommending it highly and I know they are no less picky than I about the quality of writing.
I know of a couple of others, but that will do for the beginning. :)
Now the slash:
http://mediafans.org/futures/ - Futires Without End fanzine. III and IV issues are particularly good. All stories are worth reading.
http://lonestar.texas.net/~lochness/fanfic/lochnmainhighlander.html - Loch Ness' And Then Some. The best HL alternate universe story EVAR. Probably the member of the top 3 in the whole fandom. I love it to bits. And it's long. :)
http://chelle.slashcity.org/highlander/standalone/index.shtml - Chelle's fics. Sometimes just a touch sappy, but other things make up for it.
http://wordsmiths.net/Cinel/hlhome.html - Cinel Durant. Her writing is a bit too good for me. :) I'm a girl of simple tastes. But if you tend to like this kind of things...
http://www.squidge.org/esjay/Contents.html - Sonia's stuff. Her long stories are very good, but what I love most about her - she'a a queen of slash humor. I'm always laughing silly when I read her 'Straight And Low' and 'The Marrying Kind'.
http://www.taterville.com/igniferindex.htm - Phoenix Fire. Very good. I mean VERY.
http://tryfanstone.co.uk/highlander.htm - another example of quality writing. I don't like some of her apocaliptic approaches, but her writing style is anything but simplistic. :)
http://rhi.moonlit-eyrie.com/stories/warnings.html#aidanseries - Rhiannon's stories. t's a separate universe that diverse from the canon after Horsemen arc. Many original characters, most of whom are very interesting, long and good. Good plot, good villains, too. One of my personal favorites in the whole fandom.
Although, I recall now what was THE turn-off for me when I tried reading fan-fics for the first time. Their Mac is not my Mac, and their Methos is not my Methos... and they are walking and talking WRONG...
Funny, I did not care much about the the lovers aspect - I mean, it did not seem as WRONG to me as walking and talking.
Some of them are not MINE Mac and Methos too, but they are realistic and done well, and I can live with that. Sometimes it's what I find interesting - to see them from another's POV. But in case of Nutmeg, Loch Ness and Chris (Phoenix Fire) I think they got the characterization part just right. Flawlessly.
Nah, does not at all (and actually, I hate all that quasi-Russian kissing in movies)
My favorite picture there is "attempting to give a damn"...
Oh well, a nice tangent we have here, in the mother-pride thread... and actually, I didn't even congratulate you with all the progress Greg made. Seems non-necessary, and anyway, people here alredy told you all the right words.
Oh well... just start reading. :) Userpics can be fun, yeah. Did you see the one with Jack Sparrow down there in my journal? :)
I have a test tomorrow too, by the way. And I'm sitting here thinking if making a detour for some Indian food will affect my studying for the better. :)
Видимо, второе, плюс отдали в хороший садик - фактически это не садик, а прескул. Плюс поездка в Киев его, видимо, несколько встряхнула, потом еще гланды удалили которые ему очень мешали. Как-то все сошлось, наверное. И, конечно, за каждый успех залюбливаем его вусмерть. :) Кажется, он просек, что ласковые и довольные родители несколько полезнее злых и задерганных. :)
Привет, Химерчик! Аринка показала тебя. Ужасно рада видеть. Рада, что вы общаетесь. Не могу молчать: неблагодарная дочь забыла упомянуть, что скачок (второй) начался после моего приезда, после того, как мы пропрыгали, пропели, проигрались с ним 4 недели безотлучно. Это была вторая порция внимания и любви после Киева ;) . Совпадение :)
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Date: 2006-02-18 05:58 am (UTC)The central fish I helped him with, the rest is totally his.
His teacher told me today that more than half of 'normal' kids in his group can't do as much as he can. (eye roll) Well, he has to compensate, I guess. :)
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:09 am (UTC)Differently than most, but obviously more than adequately.
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:11 am (UTC)No, I didn't know that. It'd be interesting to talk to her.
Adequately, yes, but how? I'm thinking with words, with language. How does he think? In pictures? In his own words? How?
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:20 am (UTC)Someday he will be able to tell you how he thinks. I think with word and feeling mostly. Pictures come difficultly to me. Most people primarly kinesthetic, auditory, or visual. I am primarily kinesthetic (feelings as most primary connection to the world) then auditory and rarely visual.
From what we know of autistic children they are overloaded by sensation and have to narrow it down to function. I'd be curious how they do so. And if maybe they start without a primary connection and have to learn to make one primary and establish a hierachy.
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:23 am (UTC)I'm about 3/4 visual and 1/4 auditory. So i can't even imagine kinestetic thinking... I think I have next to nothing of it.
Overloaded - yeah, I see it all the time. But the rest of what you said is lost on me. :)
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:34 am (UTC)Kinesthetic thinking is about being primarily motivated by the emotion and the location of the body in space. If people in my family move the furniture, I trip over it because I don't *see* as I move through my house. I can move easily in total darkness in a familar environment. I'm just trying to explain this way of thinking. Body memories. Like I am good at (or used to be good at) gymnastics, basketball, and dancing, and many of my memories are tied to the physical feelings of emotion associated with those memories.
I'm not good at *seeing* things. My family often laughs when I say something like, "How long has that building been there?" and the answer is "Oh about three years, diane." Some of that may because I am legally blind without my glasses and thus have little peripheral vision.
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:37 am (UTC)Dunno, he seems to be mostly visual now. And he has good ears and can repeat a pretty complicated melody very well. But clumsy. :) Probably inherited my disposition. :)
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:41 am (UTC)Maybe your son is creating his heirachy of sensory modes of perceiving. Good for him.
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Date: 2006-02-19 09:45 pm (UTC)You may want to read "Upside-Down Brilliance"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193218600X
-look up at your library, or actually I could send you my copy (if I can find it, that is)
I definitely am NOT thinking in words...
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Date: 2006-02-19 09:53 pm (UTC)Yeah, I have a long list of "nice-to-read" books myself, and some of them I eveh have in physical form... Last semester, I actually started reading on train, but I'm not taking train this semester. Pity.
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Date: 2006-02-19 10:07 pm (UTC)Thanks for the reminding, I have to read a couple of articles for Tuesday... and a book for my job... and maybe even write something... don't remember.
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Date: 2006-02-19 10:11 pm (UTC)Fan-fiction, Marish, is an answer to everything. :D
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Date: 2006-02-19 10:20 pm (UTC)In part - because THEIR English is bad... :)) I'm surprised that yours became so good from reading all that... ahem... low-quality stuff.
I mean low-quality form, not content. No offence.
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Date: 2006-02-19 10:23 pm (UTC)And, by the way, one can learn a lot from negative examples. :)
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Date: 2006-02-19 10:26 pm (UTC)Yeah, give me some links... all carieties. I never know what I'd like before I actuaally try.
I recall now - when I tried fan-fic, I still was able to get high from mysteries and/or fantasy books, but maybe now it's time to try fan-fic again.
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Date: 2006-02-19 10:55 pm (UTC)OK, here we go. They are mostly my personal favs, mind you, but I think you like them too once you'll get used to the idea. :)
General first (not slash):
http://www.daire.org/refuge/index.html#nutmeg - author Nutmeg9cat, 'Fundamental Things' series.
http://www.wordsmiths.net/MacGeorge/index.html - The Broadwalk part featires gen fic, Under the Broadwalk - slash. Both are very good, although some of them may make you 'ewww'. Mostly for violence content. I prefer her slash to her gen.
http://members.shaw.ca/sylviavolk/ - The page for mostly very good gen fic. Here you can find 'Fundamental Things' again and Silvia Volk's fics, of which I read only one, but others were recommending it highly and I know they are no less picky than I about the quality of writing.
I know of a couple of others, but that will do for the beginning. :)
Now the slash:
http://mediafans.org/futures/ - Futires Without End fanzine. III and IV issues are particularly good. All stories are worth reading.
http://lonestar.texas.net/~lochness/fanfic/lochnmainhighlander.html - Loch Ness' And Then Some. The best HL alternate universe story EVAR. Probably the member of the top 3 in the whole fandom. I love it to bits. And it's long. :)
http://chelle.slashcity.org/highlander/standalone/index.shtml - Chelle's fics. Sometimes just a touch sappy, but other things make up for it.
http://wordsmiths.net/Cinel/hlhome.html - Cinel Durant. Her writing is a bit too good for me. :) I'm a girl of simple tastes. But if you tend to like this kind of things...
http://www.squidge.org/esjay/Contents.html - Sonia's stuff. Her long stories are very good, but what I love most about her - she'a a queen of slash humor. I'm always laughing silly when I read her 'Straight And Low' and 'The Marrying Kind'.
http://www.taterville.com/igniferindex.htm - Phoenix Fire. Very good. I mean VERY.
http://tryfanstone.co.uk/highlander.htm - another example of quality writing. I don't like some of her apocaliptic approaches, but her writing style is anything but simplistic. :)
http://rhi.moonlit-eyrie.com/stories/warnings.html#aidanseries - Rhiannon's stories. t's a separate universe that diverse from the canon after Horsemen arc. Many original characters, most of whom are very interesting, long and good. Good plot, good villains, too. One of my personal favorites in the whole fandom.
I think that'll keep you occupied for a while. :)
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Date: 2006-02-19 11:11 pm (UTC)Although, I recall now what was THE turn-off for me when I tried reading fan-fics for the first time. Their Mac is not my Mac, and their Methos is not my Methos... and they are walking and talking WRONG...
Funny, I did not care much about the the lovers aspect - I mean, it did not seem as WRONG to me as walking and talking.
OK, I'll try again. Thanks.
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Date: 2006-02-19 11:26 pm (UTC)Look at the upper right userpic here - http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=lastrega :) Looks very natural, doesn't it? :D
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Date: 2006-02-19 11:50 pm (UTC)My favorite picture there is "attempting to give a damn"...
Oh well, a nice tangent we have here, in the mother-pride thread... and actually, I didn't even congratulate you with all the progress Greg made. Seems non-necessary, and anyway, people here alredy told you all the right words.
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Date: 2006-02-19 11:52 pm (UTC)I have a test tomorrow too, by the way. And I'm sitting here thinking if making a detour for some Indian food will affect my studying for the better. :)
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Date: 2006-02-19 11:51 pm (UTC)Well, back to work. And I probably should make some food - it will not be fair for my hubbe to make it when he comes from work.
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:01 am (UTC)Я ужасно рада за вас. Процесс идет, значит?
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:17 am (UTC)Good luck!
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:20 am (UTC)Поведение тоже совсем другое - общительный, послушный... такая разница, просто неописуемая.
Как твои?
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:29 am (UTC)а чем обусловлено такое улучшение? Что-то новое попробовали? Или просто "количество перешло в качество"?
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-18 06:35 am (UTC)все, я спать :)
и я, правда, ужасно за вас рада
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Date: 2006-02-18 03:19 pm (UTC)Аринка показала тебя. Ужасно рада видеть. Рада, что вы общаетесь.
Не могу молчать: неблагодарная дочь забыла упомянуть, что скачок (второй) начался после моего приезда, после того, как мы пропрыгали, пропели, проигрались с ним 4 недели безотлучно. Это была вторая порция внимания и любви после Киева ;) . Совпадение :)
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