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(via xkcd: Mnemonics)
let's be blunt.
- Student 1: "I'll be heartbroken if Miss Ivey doesn't sit with me!"
- Student 2: "If your heart was broken, you'd be dead."
i am the queen of awkward
i met a really attractive gentleman today.
in my age range (yes, really!)
articulate, intelligent
dressed smartly, well-groomed
nice manners, great smile …
the problem?
he’s my new doctor.
[Image: Five photos of a child with short hair curled up in a plastic box, standing on a foggy road holding a toy baby, lying on the ground with a vacuum cleaner cable making a circle from their mouth to their ear, with their head in what looks like a large crumpled jar, sat on a bed embracing a branch from a tree]
Echolilia
All parents love their children. But what do you do when you can’t connect with them? In my case, I started making photographs of, and with, my son Elijah, who has autism spectrum disorder. This series—the title is from “echolalia,” a clinical term for the mimicking aspect of his condition—shows the bridges we’ve built on our shared journey of wonder, discovery, and understanding.
We began this project when Eli was five. He was doing well at school but fixating on odd things, lashing out, speaking repetitively. My wife and I couldn’t figure him out. Then I started taking pictures of him around the house. It was an instinctive act for a photographer: Point your camera at something in order to make sense of it. But a curious thing happened. As I documented what Eli was doing and creating, he became interested in the images I was making. I was learning how he thinks; he was learning what I like and value.
We soon had a system. Eli would do something unusual, one of us would notice, and we’d make a photo of it together. The pictures we took over three years were more raw and feral than anything I’d done as an editorial or advertising photographer. And more personal. This is, after all, the story of a father and his son.
Timothy Archibald’s book, Echolilia: Sometimes I Wonder, was published last year by Echo Press. See more of his work at timothyarchibald.com.
I saw his pictures in the last NatGeo. Would love to get his book.
This is beautiful. Echolalia can also occur in Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s too, fyi.
(via mutedheartbeats)
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Reps. John King, R-York and Rep. Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleston, gave Buzz a chuckle with their bill to end Gov. Nikki Haley’s requirement that state workers answer their phones by saying, “It’s a great day in South Carolina!”
King and Gilliard’s bill would lift the requirement that state workers use the greeting “so long as certain conditions exist in South Carolina.” The bill also would ban any future requirement that state workers use the greeting or a similar one “connoting the advantages of or a general pleasant demeanor in this state so long as any of the following conditions apply:
• The state’s unemployment rate is 5 percent or higher.
• All South Carolinians do not have health insurance.
• Funding for public schools, colleges and universities is not sufficient for 21st-century standards.
• The state’s rural infrastructure is inadequate.”
"those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that"
Charles Bukowski (via dawnashley)
we went to visit my dad’s paternal side of the family …
for the first time since i was five. :/
(Source: fuckyeahsociallyawkwardpenguin)
"We’ve got to start dealing with the problem,” the governor said. “We have to prioritize it because what’s happening now is these victims of mental illness are ending up in jail or in the hospital, and what they really need is treatment.
“These are people who can function on a day-to-day basis if they just get the services they need. … And by not giving them the treatment they need, it’s only costing taxpayers more money later."
This is the smartest thing I’ve ever heard our governor say.
"Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light."
Madeleine L’Engle (via elige)
(Source: myquotelibrary, via dawnashley)
excuse me while i flap around awkwardly and say weird things.
i suck at being normal. i suck i suck i suck.
from gimmical
"Oh my goodness. I know you’ve had your hands full. And, I just have to say, I so admire how you stay calm during the day with kids. You were meant to help children work through the hard parts. They absolutely need someone who can be steady when things feel so unsettled!"
S.S.
(via dawnashley)
- me: You know, if I'd never been . . . whatever. Depressed, crazy, bipolar, whatever . . .
- her: Yeah?
- me: I don't think I'd be as good at this. I don't think I'd get it.
- her: I wouldn't, either.
