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In the latest segment of America’s Next Top Model, Heather, who has Asperger Syndrome, and the other girls go to China. Her expressions in these photos remind me of some Charlie regularly makes: He too screws up his eyes and smiles and looks out of the corners of his eyes, when he seems to be thinking; some have called these “soft neurological signs.”)
No, I don’t think he’s a likely contestant if there were a search for American’s Next Top Male Models………..).
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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6 opinions for Heather in China
KimJ
Nov 25, 2007 at 3:11 pm
We have only run across one person, a student teacher studying special ed, who noticed the eye-rolling and looking out the corners of his eyes. In 5 years of appointments, assessments and special ed programs in 3 different states. One non-professional woman in her 20’s noticed. She happened to be his aide in kindergarten.
Bink
Nov 25, 2007 at 3:30 pm
My daughter has spent the weekend watching our Tivo’ed cache of this show over and over. I was not sure this was a great parenting decision on my part at first, but she was so, so interested in it and in Heather. And it’s not as if there are dozens of other shows out there featuring positive depictions of autistic adults. This is pretty much it. It has given us many “teachable moments” over the past few days!
Liz D.
Nov 25, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Charlie would win my vote for top male model of bike helmets and fuzzy garments.
He’s a handsome boy.
Regan
Nov 25, 2007 at 8:03 pm
There it is in the 3rd photo of the link–”the look”.
Yep. That’s familiar. I call it Eleanor’s “thinking” face.
I agree–Charlie would be an excellent model for cycling gear.
Kristina Chew, PhD
Nov 26, 2007 at 12:59 am
Hmmmmm………
The middle photo is very Charlie, trying to figure something out—and the bottom one, definitely Charlie, too.
Autism Vox
Nov 29, 2007 at 6:28 pm
[…] Contestant Makes It to Final Five, Despite Disability reads a headline in today’s ABC News. Heather Kuzmich, who was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome and ADHD at the age of 13, was eliminated from ANTM last […]
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