11 yaşındaki otizmli çocuğun filmlere konu olacak, ilham veren hikayesi: Her kelime bir resim
Otizm bir hastalık değil, ayrıcalıktır...
Otizmin bir hastalık olmadığı, aksine ayrıcalık olduğu gerçeğini yüzümüze vuran bir hikaye ile karşınızdayız.
Chris Jones isimli bir Twitter kullanıcısı, 11 yaşındaki otizmli oğlu ile ilgili anlattığı minik hikayede, otizmin bir hastalık değil ayrıcalıktan öte yetenek olduğuna bizi bir kez daha ikna etti.
Lafı fazla uzatmadan sizi bu ilham veren harika hikayenin tercümesi ile başbaşa bırakıyoruz…
A little story about children, reading, and how our brains work, featuring my 11-year-old son, Charley.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
Charley's autistic. That means he's really good at some things, and really not good at other things. His brain is extremes.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
For instance, his memory is ridiculous. He often brings up things that happened when he was very, very young.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
He often brings up the time I was driving with him, and he saw a big truck with an Elmo doll on its grill. He wasn't yet two.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
But he has no comprehension of math, for instance. The passage of time. He would not understand that 1983 happened before 1996.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
He recently took some tests in school. He finished in the first percentile in math and in spelling. Serious learning disabilities.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
Those weren't surprises. We know he can't do math or spell. But the spelling has always mystified me, because Charley is a voracious reader.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
I feel safe in saying few children read more. If you see Charley, he will have a book in his hands. We take his books everywhere.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
How can a child who reads so much, and so well (if he doesn't know a word, tell him once and he'll know it forever) be unable to spell?
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
Now with these tests we have our answer: Charley memorizes words. Not how they're spelled, but how they look.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
He doesn't sound out words and never has. He remembers the shape of them. Each word is a picture.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
It's amazing. Thousands of words, stored in his brain, stamped on it like tattoos. But asking him to spell them...
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
... That's like asking the rest of us to draw a picture of a person we know. We know what they look like. But we can't translate it.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
The real question isn't why Charley can't spell. It's how Charley can read. Well, my beautiful boy did what we should all remember to do.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
He took one of his strengths, and he used it against one of his weaknesses. He found a way around life's obstacles.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
Every time he picks up a book, Charley defies his reality. And he has a book in his hands all the time. He's my hero.
— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) 15 Haziran 2017
