His father knew there was something special about her daughter. But when she was five years old, his pride had turned to panic
June 2006
more than three years are in bed now, but they are not more than three geniuses age my daughter. Besides reading, she can already multiply and divide in their heads. is almost new, and my wife, Susan, is probably returning from his shift and traffic reports for a new radio station. But I want to keep Janni until there is nowhere to go but home. We've done this since I was a baby Janni. When I give a lecture, it is Susan, who did the trick. been to the zoo, Ikea and McDonald's playground. It must be well beyond the point of physical exhaustion at the moment. But his mind is that I have done. It was the only way to get to sleep since he was born. Janni storms in a toy store. The seller approaches us. "Can I help you?" He asks. "No, thank you. Just look, "I said.
She nods and starts to walk away, but to my dismay Janni follows.
"I have seven rats at home," says Janni.
"Wow," she says. "You have seven rats?"
"Yes," Janni nods. "I call on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday."
Then comes the part I hate the most. The wizard looks up at me, a quizzical look on his face. A rat can understand, even two or three, but seven?
We do not have rats. Each is an imaginary friend. Janni first imaginary friend, a dog named Low, published just before his third birthday. Then came a cat called 400. For now, I've lost count of how many you have. They all come from a place called Calalini.
open his mouth, about to say: "They are actually imaginary rats". But I see Janni turn to me, waiting for my answer. For the moment, seems content. If I tell the truth, I know what will happen. Janni issue one of their deafening cries. Then she will take things off the shelf and throw them on the floor. It will run out of the store.
Today is the fourth birthday Janni. "Hi, John!" Lynn call our friend. "Happy Birthday!"
"I'm January!" She screams. Then calmly: "I am blue-eyed tree frog."
Janni stopped going by his name. Whenever someone calls him by his real name, she screams. Sometimes, its name was changed several times in the same day. It was hot dog, Rainbow, Firefly and the Frog online Blue-Eyed Tree.
February 2007
am sitting in the office of Heidi Yellen, a therapist specializing in autism spectrum disorders. Janni like behavior has changed, most of our friends began to raise autism. In addition to anti-social behavior, Janni can not stop moving his hands, everyone takes as "stimming", one of the dominant signs of autism. Still bothers me that the world seems more concerned with the behavior of Janni with his intelligence, but I'm tired of hearing people suggest. So I'm terrified Janni will be diagnosed with autism, and it will derail its future.
However, to my delight, the first thing you want to do is give Heidi Janni an IQ test. This is what I'm trying Genius Janni. Unless your IQ is 146. I want a number so high that I can not explain the growing separation of Janni children their age and preference she has for her imaginary friends. I want to be able to say, when is something antisocial Janni ". Well, she has an IQ of 280"
"We must look at the percentages," says Heidi. "Some of them, such as verbal, is over 99%."
"What does that mean exactly?"
"means that the test began. Fifty is as high as the Stanford-Binet test is 5. 146 It is, and it was no writing. Could not get him to do any writing.
"There could have OCD," he says. "But here's the problem. Mentally, between 10 and 11 years. This is where all your problems will come. "
The green LED flickers
fetal heart monitor on me. I see the heart of our son as a yellow line staggered across the screen. His name is Bodhi. only 10 months, I did not intend to have another child. Susan had talked about it for a moment, remembering that she was "lack of time". But if it was not finally accepted. Bodhi wanted for one reason and one reason only: because Janni said he wanted a brother. Bodhi is the biggest challenge that I've done in my life. For five years, we tried to find another boy who "gets" the imagination Janni, and failed. So this is my last attempt. If I can not find a child who can relate to Janni, maybe I can create one. December 22, 2007Bodhi
We can not make noise. In the three days that I brought home, we learned to fear the slightest glance out of it. As soon as he starts to move, put a pacifier in his mouth. A little cry from the crib. "Susan!" I cried, breaking the kitchen. The countdown has begun for detonation. "I'm coming!" Susan jumps off the bed as if he had shouted: "Fire!" She meets Bodhi in his arms, while I throw open the fridge and grab a bottle of ready-made formula.
"I can hear more crying Bodhi!" Janni cry without taking her eyes off the TV. Susan run to the bottle.
"Bodhi" Janni scream pierced the room, but she turns away from the television. "Stop crying!" His cry is simply stronger mourning. I can hear the fear in her voice. He does not know what happens.
caught Janni and feel his fist on the side of the head. She hit me as hard as you can. Janni I get in the room and on the bed, where I can keep it until it happens. And it always does. This explosion of violence disappears as quickly as it came.
"Let me go!" She shouts, slamming against me. I lay beside her, arms down.
"If you tell me it will not hurt to try Bodhi, I can not let you go," I said.
"Bodhi I have hurt," she says.
"You may feel like you have, but you do not."
"I have ... I love you. "
"Janni, just told me not to try to hurt and I can not let you go," I said in despair.
Dr. Howe has toys in his office. There is a doll house "Janni and plays with it.
"Janni, you know why you're here?" the psychiatrist asked.
"Bodhi hit me," he replied emphatically.
to enter "She never really hit. Are always there to protect."
Susan
interjects: "And then there was the brother of my grandmother had schizophrenia My dad said he used to cry all the time ..." He pauses for a moment, a look of fear over his face. "Could I have schizophrenia?" Schizophrenia? Schizophrenics are these people so favorable to themselves in the corners. "I do not want to go," said Dr. Howe. "So, have you seen this behavior before?" Susan request.
Dr. Howe looks at his notes, shaking his head, as if trying to decide what he wants to say.
"I saw some of these behaviors before, but not in a child from the age of Janni."
March 8, 2008
"Where are you?"
"Right now I'm parked outside the emergency room."
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