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The comments of a fourtysomething South African artist and socio-political activist and commentator who happens to be the mother of an adorable Asperger child also.
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The hatching of Cynder: probably an ongoing tale...
Pictures and story by Leigh (9) who is not an english mother tongue speaker and who has also never had a single english lesson in her life. She taught herself to read the language fluently and with understanding and is now in the process of learning...
The terrified little fishie
I commissioned Leigh to design my profile picture for my facebook profile. Have you ever seen a more terrified fish. Leigh's ability to generate emotion even in these pictures drawn by mouse on the pc never fails to amaze me.Click on the image to enl...
Hey, cow, what's that on your ear?
Leigh drew this picture on her dad's computer yesterday. We all wondered what the little thing on the middle cow's head was as the sent version were too small to see. It was only after we got the original that we saw... When we asked what was up wi...
The girl who rode the foam...
Leigh announced on Thursday that she is going to be a professor one day, but that she first wants to be a surfer like her oldest sister.She proceeded promptly to the storeroom and emerged with one of her sister's more advanced boards - one that is re...
Back to school in South Africa
On Wednesday kids in ou province go back to school to start a new academic year after the summer holiday of six weeks. Leigh drew this picture in anticipation of seeing teacher Nansia and her class mates again and named it "The dragon wellps" (sic).S...
The issue of dragons...
Leigh issued me with a handmade voucher for four dragon eggs this morning. We were just having breakfast, but I could see this was an event which carried a bigger significance than the usual breakfast table events or random handing-over of things and...
“Un”decidedly disabled: children in the gap between the main stream and the decidedly disabled
How can they appoint the most incomparably stupid idiots they can lay their hands on to run the department responsible for the education of our children and then on top of that contract the inoperably incompetent and inimitably ignorant to advise the...
Do thieves have mothers?
On the way to school in the car this morning Leigh asked: "Do thieves have mothers?"I considered the question carefully. Sometimes her quizzes are typical childish quests for knowledge, but often they are tests designed to determine the level of my s...
A genie, a race, a show, a castle and a couple of smiling damsels
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to gi...
