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3:35am May 17, 2015

Random memory of my father

We got a ferret at one point. He refused to see her as a pet, referring to her instead as “the varmit ”.

Speaking of which, I read in a book by a so called autism expert that there’s no such thing as a kid who has a speech delay and spontaneously starts talking in sentences one day. But I know someone whose family member did exactly that. At a family reunion, he got pissed at his brother about something, and said “You ain’t nothin’ but a flea bitten varmit!” Which was memorable enough to make it into the commemorative t shirt that year. Best first words EVER.

(I wish my family reunions were that interesting. Mostly I spent my time trying to get away from distant cousins who chased me around as a game. And given these were birthday parties for my great grandma, who had seven kids and half a zillion descendants, that was a lot of distant cousins.)

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    My eldest son is autistic. His first words were, “Me go with you,” while I was talking about leaving him with people we...
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    Story time: I didn’t speak until I was three. My mum took me to the speech therapists and they watched her play with me...
  6. neurodiversitysci reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    That’s so wonderfully her, isn’t it?I don’t know what that autism expert was thinking. There are enough anecdotes from...
  7. rutdeleu said: My aunt (my father’s sister) had a speech delay and the first thing she said was a full sentence to their dad: “Daddy, Joey hit me with a teddy bear.” (About my father, her older brother.)
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