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Chanel 5 Now - The boy with the incredible brian

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Twiglett · 23/05/2005 21:01

no idea what this is like or whether you'd be interested but in case you didn't know its about a man with autism with mathematical kills (british rainman they said)

sorry might be cr@p

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misdee · 23/05/2005 23:32

possibly aloha. although dd2 can jump and run most of the time without injuring herself, she very clumsy. Hv was meant to come round last week about dd3 but she never showed up, so am going to ask on weds for my regular Hv for an informal chat and his opinion as well.

Blossomhill · 23/05/2005 23:35

Dd has lots of children in her unit with dyspraxia. They have all come on so well with the SALT.

aloha · 23/05/2005 23:37

3yrs and 8months BH. He talks very well, though can be a bit, well, odd. Eccentric, if you like. Mostly he is very lovely, but he definitely has his moments of being 'different'. This programme has really made me think.
I'm not saying he is an austistic savant by the way, but the guy did remind me of ds is several ways.
Misdee, ds's physical skills are improving a lot atm. He still can't jump properly though. I'm amazed when I see what other children his age can do! I comfort myself by saying that adults rarely get judged on their ability to leap off sofas!

misdee · 23/05/2005 23:40

leap off sofas and crack their heads open?

does you ds feel pain as easily as other kids? dd2 will just pick herslef up and carry on. we have to inspect her for cuts that need cleasning as she doesnt seem to feel them that easily. she got very infected last year when she cut her feet up and we didnt notice till a few hours later, as she had been playing outside and didnt come in to tell us. it was dd1 who noticed the blood.

aloha · 23/05/2005 23:41

I got asked that about ds at his assessment and I think he has a pretty average pain response tbh. He gets quite used to falling over though.

misdee · 23/05/2005 23:43

we can hear a pretty reosunding crack as she lands once again on the floor, but she just carries on. other people make a big fuss. 'oh is she ok, is she hurt' but then dd2 just runs off grinning. blinkin nutter!!

Blossomhill · 23/05/2005 23:45

Aloha - do you still see a paed. at all. We did until dd was 5. Now see one annually as he sees all of the unit children.

aloha · 24/05/2005 00:15

Probably not quite the right kind of paed, I suspect. Seen an OT and a physio and a community paed and one who specialises in muscular problems. Ds doesn't have any routine obsessions, is chatty and fluent, bright and loving and can play appropriately but he is, well, different. His nursery staff really like him, but they also notice his eccentricities. I think he is less strange than Daniel was as a child, but they would have had a high old time counting together!
Ho hum, off to bed now. Saw your other thread BH - congratulations!

ScummyMummy · 24/05/2005 02:16

Your son always sounds like such a sweetie, aloha. Sorry you're worried though. Hang in there.

aloha · 24/05/2005 09:40

Feel cheerier this morning. Ds climbed into his baby sister's cot and told me a long and involved story about Jakey and The Nabbit - 'which is a big animal like an elephant but with long ears' - pointed out all the numbers in his Dr Suess book ("I never noticed before that it has the numbers in the corner! Look, 26 and 27!") and tootled off to his grandma's house clutching his 'How It Works Book' and some paper cups to make a walkie-talkie, while waving me off with a ''Au Revoir maman, a bientot". He is odd, but he's cute as well! Hello trees, hello sky...

misdee · 24/05/2005 10:10

bless him. he soudsn such a dear.

coppertop · 24/05/2005 10:14

I watched this programme with dh last night and thought it was really interesting. Kim Peek was great too. The only thing that puzzled me a bit was the comment about people usually taking 3 minutes to read a page. Is that accurate?

The boy who could draw reminded me a bit of ds2. He's always been able to hold a pencil properly and his drawings freak us out a bit tbh.

aloha · 24/05/2005 10:25

Kim Peek blew me away completely. It's really not quite human to be able to do that!
Dh thinks in the future all humans will be superbeings able to do all those things as we discover how to unlock these abilities... it would be amazing, wouldn't it.

Clarinet60 · 26/05/2005 19:24

Oh it is nice to hear from Brian again, I've missed him so much ...
Gutted that I missed this programme, especially regarding the epileptic seizures that set him off. Thanks for the link Aloha.

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