Re: My 4 yr old Aspie author!

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Wendi, I would encourage her talent and the interests generated from that. I nearly had my first work published when I was in 6th grade, but the topic was a little too mature for the publication the teacher sent it too. If she likes to read, encourage that also because the more she reads the more she will absorb how other writers handle things like style, pacing, character development, dialog and so on. And she will also learn a lot more about many things.

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Welcome

Kathy!

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From: 's Mom

>Wendi! How cute is

that? Does she right the words

>too or is she verbally telling the story?

She doesn’t have the fine motor control to write yet, very

dyspraxic and midline problems too.

She tries so hard and gets so very frustrated! But she is reading. So right now it’s all verbal.

>I'm always completely

amazed at my 5 year old son when

>I teach him something of

interest. He's always been

>fascinated with the moon and

its not expanded to all

>of space. I bought a book

" Phases of the moon " and if

>you could have seen his face

in wonderment! It was

>unbelievable how he just

absorbed it all!

>

>He's been talking about

the cresent moon since he was

>two ... but then to learn

all about 3rd quarter, 1st

>quarter and the NEW MOON!. There's another set of

>books he totally loves and

they are the " I can read "

>sets of Math and

Science books. Your daughter will

>probably love them too.

We go to the libary all the

>time to get new books since I'd be broke buying them

>all!

That’s

great! Thanks for the book recommendations...

she can’t get enough of reading... been very

attached to books since she was only a few months old. I am absolutely sure she has a very high

IQ. Maybe in a few years she’ll

be joining our group, and will probably be a lot more interesting than her mom!

Wendi

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Cool, Wendi!

I too used to build houses in my head when I was a kid.

Though not as early as yours. Very advanced to be thinking of the earth getting too old.

Rather descriptive of the state of our world, isn't it, when children that

young are already starting to make plans for how to get out of here? :-)

Inger

Inger, I think it is her way of expressing a

combination of three things. Firstly

– our dog is old and getting sick and I think wants a new dog when she

goes, and she has already been told that mommy doesn’t need anything else

to take care of right now. Secondly

– she wants a pony and knows she isn’t going to get one here on

THIS planet. Lastly - it is her way

of telling us she wants a bigger house with (more importantly) a bigger

backyard and a much more exciting playground!

Really four things – my husband and I are sci fi fans, especially Star Trek

and Star Wars (I love time travel too and dh a big King Kong/Godzilla fan), and

I guess we’ve had them on enough for her to become a fan too (on the rare

occasions we actually watch something these days, more dh than myself - they

never allow me to watch anything lol).

While Luke and Maddie sort of zone-out during anything

we might watch or read, just absorbs everything and is very hungry for more.

She (like dh, who is a

programmer but makes movies on the side) is very into how movies are made and

special effects. She got hooked

when dh filmed her on a green screen (yes we have one

in our basement!) and put her in King Kong’s hand on the computer, showed

her how he did it too.

DH has books about the making of his favorite movies

and she loves them, takes them to bed with her (well, the ones he allows

anyway) and stays up looking at them till we take them away, can watch King

Kong and tell you in which scenes different sized models were used, etc... what a lot of dinosaurs names are (not just in movies, but

books and toys too – which is another interest of dh’s).

He has been watching the 3 Stooges (another interest

of his) with them – which all three love - and I’m afraid I have to

tell him to stop that one since they’ve been imitating them and beating

each other up!

If one or all of them becomes interested in Planet of

the Apes, they’ll really win his heart!!

All these interests of dh’s

are intense and he knows just about everything about them – like I’ve

said before he is an aspie without the social aspect.

just eats it all up. I swear with all she’s absorbed

already she is more like a 12 yr old aspie in a 4 yr old’s

body. Some of it she doesn’t

understand, but much of it she really seems to grasp.

I haven’t introduced her to many of my

interests, I don’t think they are appropriate for a 4 yr old (but then

again probably half of what dh has introduced her to should not be for a 4 yr

old either lol). I’d rather

she find her own and not feel obligated to follow one of us... but she really

does love the things my husband does.

She also is going through an old set of books from the

60’s I believe (dh’s mom passed them down)

on the body and mind and space and machines and loves them. And she’s learning to add now.

If architecture is the next interest (with these new

questions, I wouldn’t be surprised), then so be it, she’s got an

uncle (who is AS but won’t admit it) and grandfather who can teach her

all about that. If painting or sculpting

comes along, dh can teach her that too.

She really amazes me. I don’t remember being so intense

at 4 yrs old, but I think my anxiety was more overwhelming than hers, holding

me back...

Plus she has two very understanding parents! If I had shown an intense interest in

something that young, I’m not sure I would have been encouraged... it

would have been too weird.

Sorry, I really went off there – but I was

wondering if anyone here was this intense at 4 and couldn’t think of a

way to ask without describing her.

Wendi

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Hi Wendi,

I remember asking lots of questions, was curious about everything.

Fortunately my grandad really encouraged my thirst for knowledge - I

really miss him

I also remember being worried about things that were going on in the

world from quite a young age; my son's pretty much the same, so now I

know what it's like to be on the recieving end I try to encourage

him to learn more about things too, but unfortunately a bit like

myself he does tend to stress, become anxious over some of the things

that are happening on and to our planet

Bye 4 now,

Greebo

I don't remember being so intense at 4 yrs old,

> but I think my anxiety was more overwhelming than hers, holding me

> back...

>

> Plus she has two very understanding parents! If I had shown an

intense

> interest in something that young, I'm not sure I would have been

> encouraged... it would have been too weird.

>

> Sorry, I really went off there - but I was wondering if anyone here

was

> this intense at 4 and couldn't think of a way to ask without

describing

> her.

>

> Wendi