Autism
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This started out as a scan of a drawing by an autistic boy. In Digital Collage I combine two or more images from varying sources (photographs, or scans of drawings, paintings, fabric, found objects etc.) into one image. I use layering techniques in image editing and painting software.
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This was my first ever bit of Digital Manipulation. I did it in my 1st year of Design at Curtin Uni in WA on an Amiga. thats 20 years….getting older! It was a total bit of accidental art but I have always loved it!! / Close Up
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This acrylic on stretched canvas painting is about the chaos and confusion that accompanies AUTISM. It was painted for friends who have 2 children with autism…
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An Original Oil Painting (150×100cm) / by Nicole Osborn This painting is based on my 7year old son. Henry. Henry has Aperger Syndrome (a mild form of Autism) and ADHD (often the two of them are linked). / In this painting the boy on the left is the wide eyed boy of 7, lots of movement and coloured in primary colours. / The next boy is how I envisage Henry at age 14 – hormonal and somewhat anguished. By 21 (the 3rd boy) I see Henry as more settled individually, who by then will hopefully be embraced by society. / I asked my son if it was ok that I painted and spoke about him having Aspergers to which he shrugged his shoulders and replied, “No Mum, I don’t mind, why would I mind?” / Thank you Henry for teaching me so much x
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This is my son Braxton when he was getting a recognition award at school for ‘learning to talk after learning sign language’..I was calm until he said “Thank you” to all that were in the room…then I melted. Simce my little boy has Shaken Baby Syndrome & Autism, he flaps his arms when excited. This was shot in the moment.
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this is my son kai , now 7 he’s been diagnosed with a.s.d , a mild form , but yet he’s gonna need constant guidance throughout his life . keep looking out for my other son , who is also yet to be ( but we know ) diagnosed . autism affects everyone . ............ it’s really not their fault .
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‘List of STOPs’ for autistic people, for obsessive-compulsive people, for bureaucrats and shopping list collectors, procrastinators that write lists and for list compilers Darby and Adam EDITION # of 20 SHIRTS
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Who says what’s normal?
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Who say’s what’s normal?
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Since April is International Autism Awareness Month this year. Here is a clever design for autism awareness. A heart with a keyhole in a center puzzle piece.
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LAURA / Almost 21 years ago, I gave birth to my second daughter. / I was happily married, had a beautiful two year old – Katie – and we lived on a small farm raising miniature horses, amidst a beautiful rural setting near the ocean. I could not have wished for more. I had no idea that when I took my beautiful four month old baby Laura, for her immunisations, that she would come away with more than the literature said. Sure there was a fever, sure there was a bad reaction…there was also brain damage. We got told that Laura would never walk or talk, that she would never go to school like other children, and might need to be institutionalized. It was a heartbreaking prognosis, all the more so as we were already faced with the awareness that all was not well with our little girl. Laura did not sleep for over two years and our family fell apart. Even with a broken marriage, we still believed and hoped that Laura would have a good life. That was our wish, even though every day was full of trials and difficulties. I believe that our little girl was special. I also came to realize that so too were we, her parents. Only very special people get a child like this. / SO this is what has kept me going, on days when I could tear my hair out, on days when I believe I have failed so badly as a Mother, on days when I am so angry, or exhausted or depressed, or ready to give up….. this belief that both she and I are special, has helped me to keep going. And who would argue? This little girl has been my greatest teacher and still is. She is mental age 8, but emotional age 4, her condition is probably best described as autism. She did not walk until she was almost two, and did not talk until she was seven. But she has never considered herself hard done by, or disabled, or different. In fact she has sailed through life not even considering it – it was only in recent years I tried to explain what “disability” meant, and why she was a part of “Disability Services” and her eyes widened, and she got very excited and said in a whispered voice “wow! Does anyone know I have a disability? Can I tell my friends and my carers?” Laura takes every moment as it comes and lives it to the fullest. / She focuses on what is important to her and all else can just fade away. (like wearing “zig zag dot dots” – it was crucial for her to wear zig zag dot dots to primary school as a little girl and we took forever to get it! They were school sandals with special tread that left footprints on the sand with zigzags and dots on them….. and this girl saw them everyday at school in the playground…and wanted to leave the same footprints as everyone else!) / When asked what she wanted for Christmas, she would be happy with “new thongs” because they made her feel good. When she wanted to have her hair done “like a cow’s udder” and I sat there scratching my head and wondering if she wanted four bits sticking out like cow’s teats…..she simply said she wanted her hair like a cow’s udder so it would “swing from side to side when I run”.... lol Over the years, on so many occasions, she has told me that “Today is the BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!” and you know what? I have believed her. And being near her in this energy, it has become the best day of my life too! Next week, Laura turns 21. She has completed 12 years at School (and God bless all the amazing and gifted souls who have helped teach her along the way, and become an integral part of her journey and ours) she has many friends, she CAN walk and talk, and read and write and spell….and she now has a job doing something she absolutely loves. / She washes buses for a major coachline and her love of big machinery is fascinating to witness. She has spent a lifetime adoring the milk tankers that come to our dairy farm (picture a child who runs out to greet the milk tanker each day, even leaping naked from her bath to run “in the raw” across the lawn to wave at the tanker driver!) and the big buses that travel our highways. When we jokingly ask if the shiny steel of the tankers and dimensions of the buses reminds her of the “Mothership” she came here in, she laughs and says an absolute YES! Now she gets to wash and polish buses everyday and never tires of it. Now I won’t go into the negative stuff, suffice to say, any parent with a disabled child knows only too well how constant and full on the bad stuff can be, how completely engulfing, painful and exhausting the endless battles can be, and worse still, how you must spend your time focusing on the negative and villifying your child on many levels through paperwork, interviews, applications etc, simply to get the system to help you…..Yet all the while, as a parent only ever wanting to believe the best for your son or daughter. It is a duality that has nearly destroyed my belief time after time. But today, as with most days, I choose to see the positive. Laura teaches me to be free, to stop worrying what people think; to live in the moment, enjoy the little things, and your friends, and to not care about judgments. Most of all, Laura let’s go of stuff. She can be angry or hurt or annoyed, but she gets over it in a flash. And she forgives so quickly and never ever holds a grudge. Not once. When something is over, it is forgotten. She teaches me how easy it is to “let go” of the stuff that does not serve me. She is passionate about whales and dolphins, and the Free Willy movies have been her all time favourites throughout her life, along with (for some perhaps symbolic reason) the movie “Stand by ME”. She has been through numerous copies of these movies on video and DVD and worn them out. As a gift for her birthday, and to honour who she is, I have created the image here for her, and had it printed and mounted. Her party is next week, she has people from all over town and this community coming to share the night with her and celebrate. And I just wanted to share my thoughts here and her story, so that wherever you are or whoever you are, you realize that sometimes circumstances present you with situations you have no way of coping with, yet a shift in attitude can make a world of difference. And you can believe in the positive, you can see that you are special and turn these hardships into opportunities. And feel very blessed. Sometimes the people you think most unlikely to have any effect on you, or even who might be a negative factor in your existence, become the ones who will have the greatest impact and bring about the most positive changes in how you view life. Because as Laura’s mother, no matter what I have been through and have yet to endure, I feel very blessed. (Thank you Laura for choosing me as your Mother, and may you have a wonderful birthday and continue to be blessed with a “good life”.....)
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The Embera people in Colombia tell us that their jaibanas (shamans) learn their healing skills from Antomia, the Mother of Water. / Water Spirits are very shy and are more tuned in to the inner worlds of this universe than to the outer worlds like most humans.They communicate in a telepathic way. Just like dolphins and autistic people do. my blog: Kabai33
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I have a child with Autism. When my son is overwhelmed by stimuli and has melt downs, people say ti is lack of discipline.. Autistic kids usually look like anyone else. Autism strikes 1 out of every 150 children. The puzzle pieces represent those with Autism as no one person is alike. Autism is a puzzle..
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My daughter tried to get Braxton to sniff some flowers, but because he is Autistic, he could not look at her..
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Teach Compassion Autism Awareness Puzzle Apple
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“We all belong” Autism Awareness Puzzle Heart Design
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1) Vinny Takes the Cake! Actually he helped himself to a handful of brownies, while we weren’t looking. / He can be very sneaky for an 18 year old wise guy. Living With Autism is difficult, but it is important to turn things from lemons to lemonade. The Series / Vinny Takes The Cake / Haircuts Are Hell! / Piano Man / Billy Idol
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2) Haircuts Are Hell! Haircuts are not easy on someone who moves a lot and is impatient. / We’ve made a game out of it, and Vinny wants us to keep going, instead of stopping. Living With Autism is difficult, but it is important to turn things from lemons to lemonade. The Series / Vinny Takes The Cake / Haircuts Are Hell! / Piano Man / Billy Idol / Rock Star
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Vinny’s First Performance was a Lip-Sync Competition at Manchester High School. / He Performed Mony-Mony by Billy Idol. / Sit back and Enjoy the performance! / His performance is so full of life, as he has no fear while on stage. / Only before, when he pukes like crazy! / Vinny took 3rd place. Living With Autism is difficult, but it is important to turn things from lemons to lemonade. The Series / Vinny Takes The Cake / Haircuts Are Hell! / Piano Man / Billy Idol / Rock Star
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1 In Every 166 Children Has Autism. No one knows why the number has risen. And it’s not clear what causes the disorder. / Autism is not a tragedy / Ignorance is the tragedy. / DApixara design.
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Asperger Syndrome is an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which can produce poor social and communications skills, rigid need for rules and routines, inability to recognize certain feelings and emotions, to name but a few… often with an average or above average intelligence. This image symbolizes a sharp intelligence, with brilliant thoughts and ideas stuck inside the mind, unable to express themselves freely in this standardized world, as if kept in their place by invisible prison bars. My youngest son who is 14 was used as a model in this image. Position cursor over thumbnails for more details on the images and how they were used. All photos in this composite where made by me. / Finished in 4th position of Top Ten by popular vote in the Composite of a Part of a Face challenge of the Visual Texture Group on June 5, 2009 but, was awarded 1st place by jury in same challenge!
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Inside Out
by Mark GermanOn the way to school, I listened to the music and nodded to the inaudible missing beats. I could see my mother’s eyes in the revision mir…
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I have Asperger’s Syndrome. It is an Autistic Spectrum Disorder. / Sometimes it makes life a little difficult, but it also helps me look at the world differently to most “neurotypicals”. Which, I guess is not such a bad thing. / Autistic Spectrum Disorder is often represented by a rainbow symbol (usually arainbow in the shape of an infinity symbol). / Many autistics are fascinated by shiny objects, so I thought this mirror ball in my stepmother’s yard was very fitting. /
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I was recently diagnosed as having autism. That’s why the world has never made sense to me. It’s why I’ve struggled to understand what other people grasp without the slightest bit of strain. It’s why I’ve dropped out of college three times. It’s why I was never able to learn how to drive. It’s why I’ve been dismissed as being “a bit thick” when I was at school – despite having an exceptionally high IQ in English. It’s why I’m continually perceived as being aloof and indifferent. It’s why I can be very empathic – and completely insensitive. Now… I have a new challenge and a new opportunity. I’m going to have to learn all the ways in which my autism has affected me throughout my life and I’m going to learn all the ways in which it’s helped me. I won’t ever say “I suffer from autism”. It has definitely held me back at times. But I’m sure that it has been very positive in ways I haven’t even thought of, yet. This is fascinating to me. Model: G. Farquhar / Digital editing: G. Farquhar / Words: G. Farquhar
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