Before i start a topic, let me just tell you something dumb that i just did.
So this morning, as usual i was gonna cook my breakfast.
*i'm just so healthy* And i brought out eggs. 3 eggs this morning, because the vegetables are going nasty and i had to cook them all. I was so blur, so i beat the first egg, guess where'd go? Yeah, the dustbin. And my brain actually told me to throw the shell into the bowl! LOL, then i'm like, "Hmmmm, something not quite right here. " Then i noticed what i did wrong. And i'm like "WHAT AM I DOING?!"
I'm not a science person. In fact i hate sciences, except for biology. I didn't know about it until i entered form 4 and experienced it myself. But, i love stuff like autism and down syndrome. Well, i don't LOVE the sickness, but i love to know more about it, what is it, and how it affects human.
SPOILER ALERT. *spoiler only apply if you're an autism book fan of course*So there's 2 books i actually bought that talked about autism.
One i bought it from an England website, which is
bookdepository What book depository do is that they sell rather reasonable prices' books. And i bought my first, well, not really the first until i found out few years back my sister bought me Jodi Picoult's HOUSE RULES, which was also something to do with autism. The book depository book which i bought was called Carly's Voice. I saw her clip on youtube and i was immediately attracted to her story. Yes, based on true story and true experiences, which really just attracts my attention more. Later, i followed her on facebook,
*what a stalker!* and realized she and her dad published a book, which was Carly's Voice.
I'll do an intro on Carly's voice first.
I'm so sorry the picture looks so pixelated, I'm actually quite sensitive to pixelated pictures. They bother me the most. Alright, back to topic. This is the book which i bought from book depository, and they have another cover version. but i think this one's good enough.
Her name is Carly Fleischmann. And she was diagnosed with autism, not being able to speak and express herself. Here's a clip that i saw on facebook.
Carly always hit herself, which she described it as "a thousand ants crawling up your arms", rock non-stop when sitting down and always screaming and banging her head on walls and floors. She wasn't able to say or let other people know what she wanted, she had verbal issues which was caused by the autism. Until one day, she typed on the computer HELP TEETH HURT. That's when her parents found out the way she can communicate with them. But typing for her isn't as quick, she type really slow and only if she feels like it. So basically her therapist had to give her her favorite LAY chips one at a time when she type. That keeps her going.
I just gotta say she's a rather interesting young lady, and bright too. She make jokes and have crush just like normal girls do. Most importantly, she is trying as hard.
Not only did she and her dad wrote a book about autism, she also showed us life being an autism kid.
There's a video clip, named Carly's cafe. Where they filmed it in a first person point of view, which you basically can see her hands, her eyes blinking, what she hears and see and smell. You will understand what an autism is experiencing whenever they go to loud and noisy places, what seemed "normal" to us, just doesn't seem so "normal" to them. To them, bright lights can cause a meltdown and things will go uncontrollable.
I don't know what causes their senses to be so sensitive, but they have really strong senses! Their ears, eyes, nose, hands, etc etc, even the material of the shirt can cause them to feel terribly uncomfortable at the skin and wanted to force it off of them. That happened to Carly. In the book, it was stated that when she went missing, and her dad found her at the park stripping her clothes off when she was a kid with a helpless stranger beside not knowing what to do with the situation.
Here's the clip.
I did mentioned above about another book. Which is Jodi Picoult's House rules. This is another book, which most of my friends didn't like. I didn't mean the content, but the book. It's a rather small book, which is THICK and have small wordings, that's why most of my friends don't read it. But honestly, i finished this book in less than a week. I read it even though i was preparing for SPM. It's seriously good, i guess it's because i love to read about autism.
So in this book, it was about a teenage boy, somewhere around my age, who have autism. Who always have meltdowns too. But the difference between him and Carly is that, he can speak and can communicate and do things on his own. I don't know if this story is true, i didn't really investigate about it. But it's worth reading.
Continue with the book. So he actually kinda into autopsy, which you always see in CSI where they open up dead people and check what's wrong with them. Which proves that he's a bright guy with autism as well. And also he LOVES detective jobs. He would creep out at a crime scene and solve the case for the police.
He had a tutor, which teach him how to socialize, and other stuff that has to do with autism. One day the tutor died, and they suspect it was Jacob Hunt who killed the tutor. Jacob Hunt's the autism kid (sorry, did not mention it above). And he don't have a correct way to defend himself. So people kept on misunderstood his message and he only led himself into more and more trouble.
Spoiler.
But actually how the tutor died? Well, you see, Jacob's brother love to break into people's houses and live in it. Yeah, weird i know. Because of Jacob, the family is having a hard time, the mom went through divorce stage and the family's basically broken with only the mother helping to support the family with a little income.
So this brother of Jacob, he don't really like his brother, and he actually hated him. But the mother set up house rules which basically what the title is really about, "Love your brother and help him" stuff like that, i forgot, so he had a lot of restrictions and he can't do a LOTS of stuff. So, he found this house which he notice was always empty, sneak in and live in it, watch the TV and eat the owner's food. He can do whatever he want, whatever he like without being controlled by his mother and no distraction from his brother.
Until one day, he found out that the tutor live in it. And the tutor was bathing, she saw him there, she wanted to chase after him but he ran away, she fell down ... and then the next day she died.
But the day she died, Jacob had an appointment with her at night. Which was after the brother left. And so the last person who actually saw the tutor was JACOB himself. So even the brother thought it was JACOB who killed the tutor, not him. Because why?
Jacob actually brought the tutor (corpse) to an outdoor place, and wrap her in his quilt. So this proves more that Jacob's a killer. Which of course he's not. Another evidence is that, Jacob had a huge fight with his tutor the day before she died. Justice just isn't on his side.
Let's just skip to the ending. The tutor actually fell down when trying to chase Jacob's brother after spying on her bathing, hit her head on the bathroom sink because she slipped, and died. Just as simple as that. And they had the court stuff going on, because the tutor's family wanted to sue Jacob, because of all the evidence that proves that Jacob's the murderer.
One day the brother confessed that he broke into the tutor's house and made her fell down... that's where the story ends. PHEW, finally finished typing all these mess. I don't think you guys even get it. HAHAHA.
The above is a clip, which was shared on facebook too. It was about Down Syndrome people who deserves second chance too. It was created with 2 autism girls and some actors shouting at them calling them slow and stupid and stuff and see how would people react. How strangers would react. Well, some people stood up for them. And some just ignored. It was a clip worth watching.
Last but not least, let's end with GIANT GEORGE.
You might not know this, but Giant George went into guiness world record as the tallest DOG! WOW. And of course the owner wrote a book about "LIFE with the world's biggest dog." And he's so tall that he could drink straight from the sink. How awesome is that? My dog can't even reach the sink, not even the chair. HAHAHA
What i really wanted to say was, Giant George passed away. Yeah, very sad, but you can see it in google too because George is a really famous and loving dog.
Of course, last but not least. I hope you guys have a great day! Ending with my lion queen~
