Comments on: Rachel’s Aspie Photo Album

By: John Dale Lyons

John Dale Lyons — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:43:31 +0000

Holy cow! I never know what to do with my hands and arms. I didn’t know it was an AS trait. I just thought I was a spazz.

Beautiful photos; thanks for sharing.

By: Quirky Mom

Quirky Mom — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:02:13 +0000

You’ve made me really want to dig out old photos.

In the mean time, I can say that whenever formal pictures of my daughter have been taken (and oftentimes informal ones, too), she does odd fidgety things with her hands. It’s an interesting observation.

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:14:58 +0000

These are wonderful pictures and it’s fascinating that you’re seeing them with new eyes. My daughter has that same, serious, concentrating look which now I understand to be her trying to focus through a blur of overwhelming sights and sounds. That sense of trying very hard to do what is expected and smile for a camera, too, is a sense I have of her — I’m glad I understand it more now.

As always, thank you SO much for sharing your inner life. It is so helpful and enlightening to thos of us living with someone with AS.