Pictures Matter Too
It’s intriguing that within a few days of the new régime in the Montreal Gazette with the slogan, “Words Matter”, there’s an article in the Gazette that shows that pictures are sometimes very much more powerful.
The Big Blue Hug is the website of Jason Goldsmith and his autistic son Ellis. The website contains many pictures drawn by Ellis as his way of communicating.
Autism is a tough load for anyone to live with. If your child is autistic, how do you communicate. Well apparently pictures are one way of first establishing communication. As time goes on, then speech therapy may eventually succeed and words can become more important. But at first, pictures seem to matter more.
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For another view on autism here’s a link to a site created by an autistic woman. It will probably confuse you.
http://www.gettingthetruthout.org/
You are pressed for time and don’t want to slog through the whole thing, I understand; so let me just suggest that you click through to, say, the tenth page before quitting so as not to miss the point.
You’re right, Mare, that’s a view I would never have been aware of. I skimmed most of it. At the very end, there is a web page giving links to sites by autistic people or non-autistic allies that is quite a resource for those who want to follow this further.