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7 Responses to “About”

1. Michael Gandy
   December 21st, 2008 at 11:11 pm

   

   Nancy, I found you while reading about Autism… I’ve been worried about my son’s development and everywhere I look is pointing at Autism. Symptoms are identical and your Quin reminds me so much of my son too! Looks and all… I don’t know anybody who’s experienced it before, and well, I just wanted somebody to talk to honestly. Let me know if that’s doable! Thank you!

2. Christianna
   March 26th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

   

   Hi Nancy,
   My name is Christianna, I’m 22 and am currently enrolled in a M.Sc. Clinical Linguistics program. My primary research interest is autism and so I had of course seen the pictures you uploaded of Quinn onto the Wikipedia article on autism. I had first seen the “ducks in a row” picture a while ago and felt that there was something interesting going on with the spacing of the ducks in that line of toys. When I drew the pattern out, assigning shapes to the types of toys he had, it blew me away when I realized that Quinn, at two years old, had created a Fibonacci sequence with the ducks (I first learned of this sequence in my senior year of high school). A Fibonacci sequence is 0 1 1 2 3 5 8…continuing infinitely. It’s the pattern that’s found all over nature, in sunflower heads, pinecones, nautilus shells, etc. Furthermore, Quinn lined the toys up in a way that the “non-duck spacers” represent the previous number of ducks multiplied by themselves. So in order: 1 duck (x1) = 2 spacers (clock and teletubby), 1 duck (x1) = 2 spacers (2 shoes), 2 ducks (x2) = 4 spacers (frog, pig, cow, cow). Finally, if he has two of kind for the spacers, he puts them together. Although I have read of talents with prime numbers in autism, I have never come across anything with the Fibonacci sequence. I’m at the beginning of my studies, so I don’t have any concrete recommendations, but a fellow researcher I study with thought this was remarkable as well. I just wanted to let you know, just in case no one has pointed this out before. If you’d like to correspond further, my email is provided. Best wishes to you and to Quinn.

   Kind regards,
   Christianna

3. Nicole
   June 28th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

   

   I am a fitness instructor and new swim instructor. My population is children and seniors. My growing population is children with autism. What would someone like me need to know the most and understand when working with a child with autism? Thank you

4. Maria
   September 13th, 2009 at 1:16 am

   

   Hi Nancy, I found you via “YouTube” watching Quinns vids. I myself am recently been diagnosed with HFA/AS in the age of 46 and it was a big surprise for me. I always knew I was different but never knew there was a word for this different thinking. All I want to say: You are a great mom! You take you child as it is and don’t twist his personality. Respect! My mom was kinda the same. She supported my strengness and helped me to overcome my shortcommings (the big ones). And she always took me the way I am (of course with expections, she never knew what was so different about me which - sometimes - resulted in difficulties). But for all: She made a great job - and it looks like you do it also on Quinn! I wish all this other people who think autism is a disease would understand that autim is just a different kind of perseiving the world. A different kind of thinking. Good luck!

5. Holly
   September 19th, 2009 at 9:24 am

   

   Nancy, I came across your first video of Quinn a few years ago. After watching many videos that other people had made, yours gave me goose bumps. Maybe it was those beautiful Quinn eyes, but what ever it was, it moved me.

   I have since passed your video on to so many other people. Currently, I posted it on my facbook account.

   My son is 10 years old. He has both Down syndrome and autism. Such a unique combination. Not really typical of a kid with Down syndrome and not really typical of a kids with Autism.

   We parents who have dual diagnosed kids often feel that we are in our own little corner of the world. Not fitting into either mold. If we had to chose, I think we all agree that the Autism rules our worlds.

   Jake is a flapper, a hummer and a liner upper! He also pats things on his face, and stims with items, “danglies.”

   Since seeing your video, I have been doing my best to capture those unique moments on video of film. Pictures speak a thoughts words. I am just not as talented as you with video production!

   Thanks for your inspiration and for sharing Quinn with us. I am always looking forward to new updates and videos. Such a beautiful kid you have!

   Thanks again!
   Holly
   Mom to Jake, 10 years old, Down syndrome, PDD-NOS and all around amazing kid.

6. DAWN
   January 8th, 2010 at 11:54 pm

   

   Holly, you bear my sisters name, I love it! I read your post on Quinns site…ditto I agree aren’t Quinns eyes georgeous & his mother Nancy such an awsome mother capturing the beauty of her sons life! I’m sending you a message of “hope”. I too have a son diagnosed ADHD, OCD & AS. I have found something that has changed his life & therefore the life of my whole family. Two friends of mine who have Autistic children shared this product with me because of what it had done for their children. (My son is on the Autistic Spectrum too) so I network with everyone always looking out to make sure I’m doing all that I can for Andy, he is 17 now. My friends non verbal autistic children spoke their first words after taking this product for a relatively short amount of time 3 months. One of the boys is 19 and had never spoke, his first words were “Mamma, I love you!” There is so much to share about this product, I’ll leave it here for now. If you are interested to hear more, email me.

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7. Terri
   July 29th, 2010 at 8:17 am

   

   Hello Nancy,
   Please contact me so I can request permission to include to photos of Quinn in a Pearson Education Canada project.
   Thanks,
   Terri