<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BluffCityBlue @ Jun 7 2007, 09:50 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Obviously not, cause I looked it up and it says it can have negative affects. But I also looked up the kid and I couldnt find out if he was autistic. Is there something youve seen that I havent?</div>No, but since you asked, here are a few opinions I found after a simple google search.
link<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Sorry, folks: in this rather histrionic response to O'Dorney's victory, I confess to have done what appears like an utter about-face.
Watching Evan -- his gestures, his responses, the way he doesn't quite communicate, quite meet anyone's eye (I know these dodges and weaves) -- I'm experiencing a uniquely powerful confluence of knowledge, feelings, and experiences, related to (1) my lifelong interest in language and literature, (2) my scholarly expertise in the cultural history of spelling, and (3)
my recent (five-year-old) history in parenting a son now diagnosed as autistic.</div>
link2<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Evan looks to be quite an unusual kid. If I had to guess, I?d say he is a twice-exceptional child, gifted and
probably has Aspergers. He certainly had many of the telltale signs of an Aspie kid. No matter, it?s apparent he?s very smart, and maybe a bit pushed by his mother, who when interviewed kept extolling his musical and math ability over his ability to spell. It didn?t even seem like Evan likes to spell. At his post-win interview, he stated that it was just ?memorization? and that he hated the spelling bee.</div>It's almost as if someone educated in the subject had exactly the same opinion that I did. Wait no, there were two people. Is that someones?