This morning (before breakfast) Kaylia began humming the tune to a kids exercise DVD ... we hate this tune as it's very monotonous .... Naomi made up some new words for the tune ... "School is good" .... and Kaylia promptly made up her own words .... "Holiday is good" !! she is quite sophisticated musically. Last night Naomi and Kaylia were alternating with successive lines of a song .... Kaylia held the tune really well.
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The significance of the "Holiday is good" bit is that despite the fact that we have been very careful to give no obvious signs that I'm going to Bali tonight, she has worked it out from the little clues. Autism is a strange malady .... she is oblivious to many cues in the world around her .... yet at the same time she is clearly taking in other cues. It may be related to motivation .... there's a lot of motivation to do with holidays .... and little motivation to behave the right way in social situations.
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You may have read of the wild storms that have hit Perth in the past 24 hours ... we have escaped any damage.
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At the airport, I settled down for a little nap ... and fell sound asleep! I woke with a start as the flight was beginning to board.
Take off was on time for a change .... I'm flying on Virgin rather than Air Delaysia! The plane took off just after sunset and was quickly into clouds.... then through the clouds .... and there was the moon! Just rising in the east, it was red ... then quickly changed to a yellow new moon. It was what I imagine as a 'bombers moon' ..... shining over the cloud surface. It's a fitting start to the trip.
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