The Boy with Special Needs 回归自然，与自闭症小双鱼的成长与探索
Son of the nature
不一样的成长速度
5岁 开始交流短语
一边吃鸡蛋他一边说 “egg，W，eggs (鸡蛋，W，鸡蛋)”，可是鸡蛋第一个字母不是W呀，后来意识到，他在说 “鸡蛋，W，X (X/eggs 跟鸡蛋复数同音)”！
He was saying 'egg, W, eggs'. I was wondering where he got the idea that egg starts with W, then I realized, he was saying 'egg, W, X (and eggs)!
沙利文学会了逻辑反驳法，每天泡澡前我的诱惑语是，洗白白，然后movie。睡觉前，他说movie，我说明天，然后他说，bajibaji xibaibai, movie 意译为你说过的，洗白白然后movie
6岁 埋葬小猫
The first successful/full back-forth conversation we had:
while getting Sullivan up for school, I said to him: time to get up, school bus;
he was sitting up, and said, train, airplane.
where do you want to go in the airplane?
(auntie) Lizzy
第一次生离死别，我把沙利文带到房间，说五哥走了(此时五平躺在毯子上，身旁是一些小物品，鱼干，猫，狗模型)，沙利文什么都没说，蹲下就开始小心翼翼地用告别丝巾裹起它的身子。 This is yet the first death Sullivan saw, I brought him to the room, he didn't say anything and started wrapping him; after putting Wu in the hole gently, he picked up the shovel and started burying. I wonder if some memories were born with us.
one of the games he likes to play these days is "cheek to forehead", "mouth to ear", "nose to chin"... body parts practice. Today he was getting upset and wanted to bite my chin, I said no, then he said, teeth to chin
His first creative poem:
When the cat is a good boy,
he shall have fish and chips;
but when he does nothing but cry,
he shall have nothing but tomatoes;
when he does nothing but (be) happy,
he shall have nothing but brownies;
but when he does nothing but (be) angry,
he shall have nothing but onions.
my scooter ran out of battery going uphill, so I told Sullivan, you get off and walk up the hill, I don't have enough battery to ride both of us. He got off without saying a word (as usual), then the next second, he's pushing my bike from behind and all the way till the top. #暖男子的成长里程碑
7岁 The mysteries of CAPD 神奇的中枢听觉处理障碍
When we were taking a canoe down the stream, we saw crocodiles in the water, peacocks in the trees, I pointed to Sullivan, can you see the peacocks? His eyes were fixed in the air and said, deer. The guide smiled and said, there's no deer here. One minute down the stream, we suddenly saw a small group of deer in the bushes, a king with 4 female deer. Some time later we were looking at kingfishers, he said, orangutan. The one minute later, we saw a red monkey on the tree. When we were reaching the bank, he said, tiger!
尼泊尔南部，鳄鱼河。划船时看见鳄鱼，孔雀，向导给我们指孔雀的位置，说，看见了吗？我说，沙利文，你看见孔雀了吗？他说，deer. 我说，不是鹿，是孔雀，就在那。向导也笑笑，这边没有鹿。船往前划了一分钟左右，果真看见草丛里有几头鹿，其中一个是雄壮的公鹿，大大的角，他旁边还有几只小鹿。再往前划时看见翠鸟，沙利文说，orangutan红猩猩. 尼泊尔当然没有猩猩喇！一分钟后我们看见了树上几只猴子，红毛的；快上岸时，他说，tiger...
第一次自己穿越温泉男浴室。刚开始进去时我在门口看着他，他走进去几秒钟后出来瞄瞄，看见我在那想出来找我，我指着里面说，进去，I will meet you by the pool. 他进进出出几次，带着不确定。后来他进去，我直接跑到浴室后门，等了一分钟没见人，我又跑回入口，还是没有，我又跑到浴室出口，在那喊sullivan！看见一名年轻男子准备进浴室，我说，里面有个穿蓝色泳衣的小男孩，混血儿，你能把他带出来吗？男子指着池边隐蔽处，说，在那呢。
8岁 归位的需求
He's very excited that we will stop at Koala Lumpur, and asked when we can go to Kangaroo Lumpur.
2018.2
S:珠海，English
Me: Same, Zhuhai
S: Pig sea.
kangaroo is (from) Australia, tiger is (from) Africa, elephant is (from) Asia…
将所有的洲和洋都准确说出来了，问了老师学校最近有没有上生物，地理或是动物历史课，都说没有，后来我问他，where do you learn that kangaroo is from Australia. 以前对于这类问题，都要给他选择性的答案，我还未想好可以供选择的答案，几秒钟后他说，big ipad.
9岁 总能在寂静的深夜听到声音
Sullivan's trip to Nepal 沙利文的尼泊尔路上
Cambodia 2019
10岁 五日内学会自行车，一周后骑上24寸车子环海，17km/h
K: Make some sentences with color words in it.
S: Pingu ate a red cherry pie.
S: I want a rainbow color cake.
S: I think you are nuts.
K: Where's the color word here?
S: I think you are brown chestnuts.
6.15
What’s in your head? - Cotton candy for brain.
What’s between your eyes? - Nose.
What’s under your nose? - Snot.
11岁 解锁胡言乱语
The mystery of swearing words
When Sullivan was 5, he used long sentences with no meaning to us. One time walking in the airport, someone bumped into Sullivan without saying sorry. He kept walking, and in a swearing tone he said "Ikaochi, backin". He kept using the same term when he was rejected, frustrated, for a few years.
For a long long time I thought that's from an ancient language, from some sort of deep memories, and was hoping that there would be a software which we could use to define and translate a foreign language.
This night, at the dinner table, relaxed, he asked to watch TV, I said, later. He said, Ikaoch, backin. I realized that he hadn't used this term in a couple of years. Since he could explain himself better now, I asked, "what does Ikaochi, backin mean?"
"Coach, Cinderella," he said.
"What?"
"It's a carriage, back into pumpkin," he said.
13岁 冷知识
以前有个关于史前动物的APP，他想起再用时已经下线，ipad上找到四年前留下的截图，我建议他自己把每个名字标上，打印出来，居然每个动物名字都还记得！prerygotus(翼鱟), arthropleura（节胸属）, cotylorhynchus（杯鼻龙属）…这些让我头大，不敢想象也念不出来的名字，60张，一个不漏全自己补上。日常话说得坑坑哒哒的他，脑子原来全用来记冷知识了。
15岁 情窦初开
骑行环海 Cycling around Erhai Lake
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