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Just wanted to drop a quick "hi" from up north.  This is Mike Walker-used to work with A. at your workshop.  I wanted to let you know that I am so glad to have the ShoeboxTasks in my classroom up here.  I have two severely challanged guys who excel with the tasks and even the more mildly challenged guys request them as special activities.  I ordered all of the second set and the two other classrooms each ordered basic curriculums.  I appreciate all of the help and information I amassed working with you and I am no able to use it daily in my autism support classroom here in Philly.  Hope all is well.  Congrats on the new tasks.....they look awesome.  Mike Walker 

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A Day in the Life.............

A companion describes an afternoon with a 15 year old autistic friend.

 

My autistic friend is 15 years old and the other day he was wearing an orange shirt with green pants and he said, Do I look like an upside-down carrot? His medication had just changed so it was a wild afternoon. He spent half the time holding my hand while I drove, the other half calling me (and everyone else we know) terrible names. Bad language. Really bad. I felt like it was Quentin Tarantino's version of Rain Man. Finally, the medication kicked in and he became Mr. Happy and started mowing my lawn with one of those push (no engine) mowers. He insisted I pay him ten cents. I gave him a whole quarter. I'm a poor fiction writer (poor defining my financial situation, hopefully not my writing ability). I would have liked to pay him a dollar. At the end of the day I drove my young friend home and just as he got out of the car he started speaking in a Russian (sort of) accent. He said, Did you not know that all along I've been a Russian secret agent? (I've known the kid five years) I said something about how well he has hidden the fact and I thought how ingenious it is to use Autism/Aspergers as a cover (instead of stupidity like the guy in the White House, but that's for another time). As for my friend (let's call him Ivan), we both said, Goodnight, Comrade! at the same time and I drove home.




 

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