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Hi everyone, this is my first attempt at blogging, please be patient with me. I have always been passionately interested in science and always been a committed Christian who believes in the creative power of God, and I honestly believe that the two are not mutually exclusive. I would like to use this blog to explore this relationship.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Autism

http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/autism-syrmptoms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son-Rise:_A_Miracle_of_Love

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi771556121/

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/posted.php?id=585213495


I have read and heard a lot about autism and everything I have learned makes me want to learn more.  I first heard of it when I read "Son-Rise", about a boy named Raun Kaufman, severely autistic, but with absolute devotion and love from his parents was brought out of his lonely place to become the CEO of the Autism Treatment Center of America. (Second link above.)

I also watched "House of Cards", a wonderful movie about an autistic girl named Sally, played by Asha Menina, with Kathleen Turner as her Mom and Tommy Lee Jones as her psychiatrist.  The third link above is to a trailer for the movie.

Another video, this one is of a man named Stephen Wiltshire with a photographic memory.  He went in a helicopter over a good deal of the city of Rome and then sat down and drew in complete detail everything he took in.  Just amazing.  This is the last link above.







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