Absolutely and autism can be an advantage especially educationally speaking I’ve made no secret that some of my family members have autism (high functioning) and their intelligence is off the scale and look at all the Uber successful people that have autism, I read recently that Anthony Hopkins has autism he said his amazing memory was an advantage in memorising his scripts and Helena Bonham Carter has alluded to Tim Burton having Autism and the list could go on and on.
Autism is something a professional should diagnose for sure the sad thing with the Ingham family is that even if Jace has speech issues and the like they would never get him the support he needs and this will impact his education going forward because in life we all need a helping hand sometimes but lazy would rather bury her head in the sand.
ETA I follow someone on TikTok called Dr Katie and she made a video the other day that her son is eighteen months old and that she was worried that he couldn’t say five words yet and she has arranged to see a speech therapist to make sure that there is nothing wrong even though she isn’t that worried at the moment she said it’s best to check.
I’m with her I would rather know and get support than let my child down.
Both my kids are ASD - a boy & a girl. Several of their therapists have told me I'm not far off the spectrum meself. We've all done rather well academically. My son has the turned eye too like Jace.
My daughter was damn near non-verbal till she was over 3 but she communicated very well. She'd take us by the hand and show us what she wanted or what lovely thing she'd built with blocks or the tadpoles she'd discovered in our pond. Or she'd do drawings of herself doing what she wanted to do...having a bath or holding the dog's lead so we knew she wanted to go to the park.
Then one day she just began to speak in a posh English accent nothing like her father's laconic drawl or my dead common Manc. It was RP was what it was.
I will never forget the first sentence she said to me. Appeared in my bedroom doorway at first daylight one morning, stark naked and said:
"Excuse me mumma if you would be so kind, please open this." and handed me the pot of purple glitter body paint she'd snaffled from the art box.
I was so over the moon I opened the bloody thing for her and helped her cover herself in it. Six months of speech therapy and we thought it hadn't taken. But she'd just been practicing in her bed at night till she got it perfect.
After that she never shut up.
She's 22 now & still talking 19 to the dozen. Still sounds a bit like a Mitford sister too, tbh. But she says fuck a lot more often. She's got that from me.
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