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February 24, 2005
Savant
Last night laying in bed with Amin and Kiana, I was trying to teach them about subtleties of speech, and how to use their voice, and pitch to comunicate better. I started talking to them in a low hush voice, before you know it, "I Can not hear you dad", said Kiana while scooching closer, with her head almost om my chest. "talk louder dad" said Amin, turning his head. " you see what happened, by talking quietly I did, get your attention, you also moved closer, to hear me better, that's a trick I learned from my teacher ina comunications class", I said. They both laughed, it was the pleasure of discovery, and knowing that their good old dad, still had a few tricks up his sleeve. Then I talked in a flat voice, avery calm, low pitch, cold voice, with a second of silence between every words. "thats scary daddy, I am scaed", Kiana said, while hanging on to me , and going under the covers. Amin was braver, but he did not like it either, The lesson was, that a quiet, measured flat voice, can be much scarier than loud shouting. Then ofcourse I had to get the voice of the Chipp monk, and make them laugh, which I did. we talked and laughed for a while, before we heard Marjan's voice from the other room,"go to sleep guys, no more talking", auh, oh, they both said as they both went under cover, then they both found sleep, and told me they loved me, as they become motionless, allowing me the pleasure of listening to them breathing. Sohrab Sepehri, one of my favorite Persian poets, says: " sitting under a willow tree, I took a leaf from over head, and told them, can you imagine a better
blessing,......I heard them say, he talks in magic"....
After they were sleep, I walked out, took a look at our bedroom, the door was closed, that meant , Marjan was sleeping, and we would not have a night cap....... so I went down stairs, turn the TV on, and watched the science channel, it was a documentry about Daniel, he is a SAVANT, gifted, remember Rain man, he had this incredible gift with the number, multiplaying very big numbers in his head, He saw the numbers in a different way, in different shapes, almost like a painting, and when he recieved them, and multiplies them, in his mind, he saw it as a seceenery, and by reading the scenery he could come up with the answer. He was amazing, also lucky since his form of Authism, did not limit his social abbilities. he is a young man, in his early twentties. They took him to Iceland, and gave him a week to learn the Icelantic language, which is one of the hardest languages. After one week, he was able to talk fluently enough to be interviewed on live TV. Human brain is an amsing tool. If you go to SCIENCE CHANNEL.COM YOU CAN GET A LINK TO THE PROGRAM, and watch it, it was very interesting. I think we are all Authistic to some level, we call it TALENT.
MEATAL, is back, she did leave us a message, Cyrus left us some comments, so did FEREYDOON, and Maryam, all our ussuall suspects, thank you all, now I am off to the Gym to get my demons out, its lots of fun.................
Posted by Idinraha at February 24, 2005 07:55 AM