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[quote=Anonymous] My Aspie kid was resistant to reading until he fixated on Harry Potter in 1st grade and suddenly became a voracious reader. It was rather astonishing: one day he was haltingly reading simple sentences, the next he was engulfing the first HP book, and then any kind of book he could lay his hands on (or the dictionary, he's not picky). He had already watched the first movies at 4 years old, and again, they did not scare him because of his particular view of the world. What is interesting is that now at 9 he is afraid of the last HP books and movies! It's as if his emotional development has a lag of several years compare to his peers, whereas his academic development is way ahead. I was GLAD when he declared last week that the last books were actually pretty scary! However, just because my kid has Asperger's and approaches reading and movies in this fashion, I would not assume that all precocious readers have Asperger's! One thing I have learned thanks to my son's innumerable quirks and therapies: [b]don't judge, please[/b]. You have no idea what is really going on. Give the benefit of the doubt and assume that parents know what their child can handle, or not handle. Parents of typically-developing children find it hard to grasp that a minority of children, with or without special needs, have unusual ways of growing up. Don't add gratuitous and ignorant criticism into their already hypersensitive world. In the end, the immense majority of children grow up fine. [/quote]
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