{"id":1810,"date":"2013-05-21T20:17:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T03:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2014-01-21T19:46:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T02:46:27","slug":"what-is-normal-what-is-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"What Is “Normal”? What Is “Special?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why doesn’t the grapefruit have any grapes inside?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was taken aback and shocked when a HF (high-functioning) student asked me this question. I had never thought about it before. I had never asked myself the same question.<\/p>\n

Don’t you think that the question really makes sense? How is the grapefruit related to grapes, apart from being both fruits?<\/p>\n

I told the student that I really have no answer to her question and that I’ll research a little bit more to find an answer.<\/p>\n

How come we call this child a “special needs” child, while she is thinking out of the box, questioning the questions that has never crossed the mind of the “NT (neurotypicals)” ?<\/p>\n

This is the kind of mind that when grown up will make discoveries and invention the ordinary or “normal” people never thought about it.<\/p>\n

This is the kind of mind that will be able to connect the dots, and see what we “normal people” aren’t able to see.<\/p>\n

What is normal? Where is the fine line labeling people and dividing them into “normal” and “special”?<\/p>\n

While some are asking the right questions and daring to think differently they get stigmatized and treated as inferior. How fair is that?<\/p>\n

These special people managed to escape the molding process which most “normal” people were the victim of. Our neurons got pruned when we were little by being told: “do this don’t do that”. We had to follow blindly or otherwise we were given a consequence.<\/p>\n

Why aren’t we flexible<\/strong> and open for such topics? Then we accuse others for being inflexible.<\/p>\n

nadia shanab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why doesn’t the grapefruit have any grapes inside? I was taken aback and shocked when a HF (high-functioning) student asked me this question. I had never thought about it before. I had never asked myself the same question. Don’t you think that the question really makes sense? How is the grapefruit related to grapes, apart … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,44,30,383,92,43],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-communication","tag-consequences","tag-flexibility","tag-parenting","tag-research","tag-rewards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}