An UP owner who is a celebrity mother (mother of an autistic child) uploaded a video documenting family life.
This mother is raising a seven-year-old autistic baby on her own.
Her child has had emotional interaction deficits since birth and was evaluated by a psychiatrist at Long Island Hospital as a Level 5 autistic patient.
This is the second most severe level in the current ICD-11 autism grading system.
The external manifestations of babies at this level are medically summarized as having moderate intellectual disability and almost no language ability.
In the past three years, Star Mom has uploaded hundreds of videos on fighting autism.
The average playback volume of each post is not high. The most is played by 1,000 people, and the least is only single-digit clicks.
Single mothers are not here to make money.
She obviously uses YouTube as a place to talk, recording every moment of her time raising her children to relieve stress and anxiety.
The single mother is a music teacher in a local public school. Her family situation is neither good nor bad, neither rich nor poor, just like many ordinary autistic families.
It’s the same state of mind as many autistic parents.
In the past three years, this celebrity mother has gone through a four-step emotional process of hope, disappointment, despair, and numbness.
What about six-year-old golden period therapy, autism intervention classes, educational Lego toys, playing classical music, playing violin for children, and even asking Mormon herbalists to practice it.
I have tried all kinds of treatment options, both reliable and unreliable.
No less money was spent, but no improvement at all.
Children will always be immersed in their own world like puppets, cut off from all communication. I can’t do arithmetic, I can’t play games, and I don’t want to watch cartoons.
The mother's smile and spirit in the video have gradually withered as time has passed.
In the beginning of the video, she was talking to the camera about saving money to enroll her child in rehabilitation classes at which hospital. Today, she heard about what therapies are effective for their babies in a discussion group for autistic parents in the community.
Later even Xing Ma herself gave up.
Videos are uploaded less and less frequently.
From uploading a video every few days, to updating once a week, to not necessarily updating the channel once a month.
Until the last video uploaded three months ago, Star Mom opened her hands to the camera with empty eyes——
"It's over. This is her life, her grandma, grandpa, all my neighbors and colleagues said so. Maybe the children themselves accepted this reality earlier than me, and I am the only one who doesn't want to give up. Now ,it's all over."
Since then, there have been no new videos added to this channel.
Until April 1st, the new video titled "IT REALLY WORKS!!! (It really works)" appeared.
In the video, the autistic baby is holding a new version of the "Little Prince" fairy tale book launched by Scholastic Group.
This fairy tale is a bit too profound for a seven-year-old, let alone an autistic patient with moderate intellectual problems.
She shouldn't have been able to understand.
But even though she turned the pages very slowly.
But every viewer who played the video realized that the child was actually reading.
Star's mother's crying voice came from outside the camera.
"My daughter was attracted to illustrated books for the first time in her life. She was really reading. It was the first time in her life that she took the initiative to read. Today is April Fool's Day, but I swear to God, this is not an April Fool's Day joke!"
"IT REALLY WORKS!"
This 21-second video quickly attracted the attention of autism discussion groups on the Internet and continued to spread in family chat groups of people with autism.
On April 2, the Autism Care Day, it was even featured on YouTube’s special exposure push.
but,
What really made this video go viral was that on the evening of April 2, Sylvester Stallone, a short video fitness influencer and a representative of Hollywood musclemen and tough guys who is as famous as Schwarzenegger, retweeted this video on Twitter .
What many people don’t know is.
Outside the camera, Stallone is an autistic father. His son Seargeoh has been diagnosed with autism since he was 3 years old.
"It looks great, maybe I should buy a copy." The Venice Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award winner, who has more than 50 million fans online, commented on Twitter.
moment,
Public opinion really exploded.
In just 48 hours, many influencers and international movie stars reposted the news.
Thursday, April 5th.
"The Little Prince" sold 30,215 copies and "The Spare Tire" sold 26,531 copies.
The sales volume of The Little Prince directly exceeded the daily sales mark of 30,000 copies, breaking the daily sales record of children's fairy tales previously held by "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Chocolate Factory".
The sales categories of works such as "Harry Potter", "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Lord of the Rings" are actually classified under the youth fantasy category, not the fairy tale category.
Therefore, the new version of "The Little Prince" has officially become the fairy tale with the highest daily sales in the UK in history.
Top1!
Sales are still going on and the miracle continues.
Friday, April 6th.
"The Little Prince" sold 33,215 copies and "The Spare Tire" sold 25,674 copies.
Saturday, April 7th.
"The Little Prince" sold 37,521 copies and "The Spare Tire" sold 26,509 copies.
It’s Sunday, April 8th, the last week of Easter sales. "The Little Prince" sold 42,153 copies directly, while "The Spare Tire" only sold 23,517 copies.
At 12:00 midnight on Sunday, the Easter sales season officially comes to an end.
A new book myth was officially born!
"Spare Tire" sold a total of 151,018 copies over the Easter holiday.
The evaluation standard for bestsellers in the British book industry is annual sales of more than 150,000 copies. Prince Harry's personal autobiography sold this amount in one week.
This phenomenal book monster still maintains its terrifying sales momentum.
It seems that $200 million in sales this year is an extremely easy goal.
The sales volume of "Spare Tire" is known in the publishing industry as a monster rampaging in the market.
As for the sales of "The Little Prince", the general reaction of the entire book market can be summarized by the morning news headline of "Thames Reader".
"It's like a miracle of Jesus' resurrection! Look, God has really come during this Easter holiday."
"The Little Prince" sold a total of 194,321 copies during the entire Easter book season, barely reaching the weekly sales of 200,000 copies.
You must know that the total printing volume of the first edition of "The Little Prince" was only 300,000 copies!
Also know that this is just the sales volume of "The Little Prince" in the British Isles.
In addition, there are Canadian, Australian, American, and French-speaking regions, with the least selling tens of thousands of copies.
Actually.
On the one hand, the publishing group has offered five times the salary and bonuses, allowing the printing factories affiliated to the Scholastic Group to work overtime during the Easter holidays to print the second batch of one million copies of "The Little Prince" Books are put on the market.
On the other hand, in the last few days of the Easter holiday, all the copies of "The Little Prince" in major physical bookstores have been sold out.
Even the purchase link on the Amazon mall shows that after purchasing now, there is no information on the exact delivery time.
This still cannot stop the popularity of "The Little Prince".
There are even scalpers who resell "The Little Prince"!
There will never be a shortage of rich people in the world who want to spend some money to satisfy their curiosity.
On second-hand flea markets such as Ebay, a new edition of "The Little Prince" was once priced at more than 70 euros.
The first batch of printed books was all sold out more than a week after it went on sale, and the actual number of paid subscriptions exceeded the number of printed books. These two events probably created an unprecedented new spectacle in the book publishing industry.
Another even bigger spectacle happened on Goodreads, the world’s largest book rating website.
Goodreads, like websites like Imdb and Douban, implements an audience rating system.
The full score is 5 points.
Book review websites are generally more strict than film review websites. Generally, a book with a score of more than 4 points from 10,000 people is considered a publication with a good reputation.
The two princes are inextricably linked to sales during the Easter holidays.
In terms of praise rate, it shows a one-sided slump.
It's not that "The Spare Tire" is not good enough, but that the new version of "The Little Prince" is too strong.
In fact, the general cultural level of Western netizens is not as high as many people imagine.
They also don't like to read obscure and serious literature.
This can be seen from the fact that the top three highest-rated books in Goodreads’ “Best Timeless Literary Classics” section are “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” “The Hunger Games,” and “The Twilight Saga.”
In the comment section of masterpieces such as "Ulysses" and "House of Ghosts", a large number of netizens said they "cannot understand it at all" and gave it a score of one.
And a book like "The Little Prince" with fresh literature, touching illustrations, strong character and no reading threshold is just right.
Originally, "The Little Prince" by the Townsend Mann Group ranked seventh on the overall list with a score of 4.31.
"Spare Tire" has currently been rated by 260,000 people, with a total score of 3.91, slightly lower than the 4.12 score of "Jobs", which topped the biography list.
It's generally well received.
But compared to "The Little Prince", it's so shabby that it's not even worthy of carrying shoes.
The current score of the Scholastic version of "The Little Prince" is as high as 4.87 points, ranking first on the overall list.
It is nearly 0.37 points ahead of the second-ranked "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".
This is of course because "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has been rated by 8.7 million people, while "The Little Prince" has just been released and has less than 30,000 ratings.
On the other hand, it also shows that the sales and reputation of this book have flourished.
Even the chairman of Scholastic's board of directors, who was preparing to retire from his position as leader, personally flew from New York to London on a business jet to bring celebratory champagne to the entire Little Prince project team.
——
While the hot sales of "The Little Prince" continued, the other side of Eurasia.
The dragonfly flew low over the lawn, its long wings vibrating at high speed, and its yellow-green whiskers blended into the surrounding environment, reflecting the sunlight in the sky.
A few feet away from the water vapor and mist, the amber pupils from the God of Death were staring at it firmly not far away.
The moment it saw the coquettish bitches dancing coquettishly in the grass, the memory of the predator in its bloodline awakened in its body.
The new fat that had grown on his butt and belly in the past few days could not stop his wild heart, and the muscles and bones that were squeezed by his little brother until they were about to fall apart in comfort could not dampen his ambition.
3 million years ago.
Its ancestor, the saber-toothed tiger, jumped up and down in the trees chasing Australopithecus howling. Four thousand years ago on the banks of the Nile River, it was regarded as a mysterious elephant and was worshiped as a god by Egypt on the altar.
Under the furry tail and round head, the blood of tigers and leopards flows.
It is not a meat doll of a female human cub, it is the biggest king in the entire orphanage!
The God of Death held his head proudly and faced the dazzling afternoon sunlight without flinching. His body slowly tightened, like a crossbow being wound up. The muscles all over his body became tangled, and his pupils shrank into thin lines. Just like a colorful little leopard.
At the moment when the beast is about to shoot out like an offline arrow.
At the moment when the beast is about to shoot out like an offline arrow.
An annoying claw grabbed the soft flesh at the back of the neck and lifted it up.
"Meow! Meow meow meow!"
The God of Death watched the little toy he had been observing for a long time disappear into the grass, and let out a mournful and resentful groan.
Jasmine grabbed Maomao by the hair on the back of her neck and lifted her into the air.
"Awang! The dragonflies and butterflies are flying around in the yard very well. Why do you keep harming them?"
The little girl let the big meaty ball claw at the air helplessly and furiously, and reprimanded: "The dean said if this continues, there will be no flying insects to pollinate the wild flowers in the yard."
No!
My dragonfly!
In other words, Maomao's nails were just cut off yesterday by the big sister who smelled like strawberry. Otherwise, she would pounce on Bang Bang and give this vicious little girl two claws.
I'm flapping about like a dragonfly in the yard. Why does this guy come to harm me?
Awang is not happy.
Awang was very angry.
Awang wants to bite someone.
Awang choose——
"Cut off your claws to stop you from scratching and eating. It's very dirty. And sister Sakai said that you already have stomatitis, which is caused by eating too many hard bones. If you continue like this, your gums will bleed a lot. Damn it, she specially bought canned cat food for you, and you can only eat this recently."
Jasmine grabbed Ngawang's hair on the back of her neck with one hand, and dragged her butt with the other hand, carrying her like a big bag to the open can next to the concierge's hut.
"promise."
Little girl Jasmine picked up a cat toy with a plastic dragonfly hanging from the end with a fishing line, and lectured: "Sister Sakai also bought a cat teasing stick. If you want to catch dragonflies in the future, you can catch this, but the teacher in school wants us to carry Shelley on our backs." Chapter 5 of "Ode to the West Wind", I can play with you only after I finish my homework. During this time, you have to be good and eat your own cat food, you know!"
The smell of imported grain-free chicken cheese gold formula cat food is carried in the wind.
Awang licked his nose.
It suddenly felt like it wasn't that angry, so it didn't mean it couldn't choose to forgive the other person temporarily.
It is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge.
For the sake of cat food, it is not unacceptable to temporarily play with the little girl.
What a pity.
As a pastoral cat kept by a stingy old man in the yard to catch mice, Awang would improve his life by eating a piece of ribs that others had chewed clean.
How can I stand the test of corruption and depravity of specially formulated cheese cat food?
Life these days is like Cinderella putting on glass slippers and a native cat entering the Grand View Garden.
Apart from serving the vicious little girl and playing house, Awang lived a very happy life. He almost didn't want to stay with Old Man Wu for a second. He looked forward to being taken to the orphanage by Gu Weijing day and night.
Even the waist and butt are quite round.
Jasmine poured the canned cat food into the cat food bowl on the side, and then poured a ladle of water into it. She saw that Awang lowered his eyebrows and ate it deliciously.
She herself took out the textbook from her schoolbag and read it slowly.
"...
The trumpet of a prophecy! (Wake up the sleepy earth)
Oh Wind, (Ask the West Wind)
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (If winter has come, can spring be far behind?)"
Not far away, in the yard of the orphanage, there are two easels next to each other.
Even when she was painting seriously, the girl, whose appearance and manners were as elegant as ever, listened to the childlike voice of Shelley's English poems, while the tip of the charcoal pen was making smooth drafts on the canvas.
The theme of the Singapore Art Exhibition is "The Hustle and bustle of the world".
The posed models in the static studio are neither "human" enough nor "busy" enough.
Ms. Sakai Katsuko, who gradually developed feelings in her paintings and learned how to incorporate realistic emotions into her works, decided to paint outdoor style paintings.
There is no fixed theme in mind.
Pick up a few strands of light wind from all kinds of things in the world and blow them into your brush.
Do whatever you want.
Draw as you think.
The scene in front of her of little girl Jasmine reading a poem to the cat clearly touched Shengzi's gentle state of mind, as her charcoal pen quickly drew lines on the drawing board.
He hesitated for a moment.
The girl gently squeezed the charcoal stick again and wrote a few short songs in the blank space of the canvas.
"In the mist, under the shade of the locust tree, a girl is teaching the cat to read Shelley's poem - Sakai Katsuko."
Katsuko hummed twice using the unique long and short syllables of Japanese and read out this sentence.
This short song is adapted from the representative poem "Spring Rain - Under the watermelon vine, a child is teaching the cat to spin dance" in the 1820 Edo poet Kobayashi Icha's famous haiku collection "Icha, Cat and Four Seasons".
Katsuko Sakai adapted it casually to match the scene in front of her, making it very interesting.
"what are you saying?"
Gu Weijing heard the shallow singing acapella from Shengzi's mouth.
He didn't understand Japanese very well, so he asked curiously.
"A random sentence that I changed at random, do you want to hear it?"
Katsuko Sakai translated the tanka into English and sang it softly again.
"It's quite beautiful and sounds great."
The rhymes of Latin and Sino-Tibetan languages are completely different.
But after all, the entire Japanese culture borrowed from Eastern Xia culture, and Gu Weijing could barely hear the three-part style combined with these words and images.
Sakai Katsuko is a very delicate and artistic girl, so it is not surprising that she has such a skill.
"A girl is teaching the cat to read Shelley's poems, and a girl is teaching the cat...to read Shelley's poems." Miss Katsuko sang this sentence several times in her mouth, her lilac eyes getting brighter and brighter. , "Gu Jun, Jasmine is reading poetry to Awang - this is the hustle and bustle of the world in my eyes."
“The first painting exhibited at the Singapore Art Exhibition is about this theme.”
Miss Katsuko seemed to suddenly make up her mind.
"You don't plan to go to Yangon Port?" Gu Weijing raised his eyebrows.
Sakai Katsuko originally planned to go to the beach again in a few days.
Yangon Port is one of the busiest and noisiest places in the city.
If the muddy Golden Triangle can be summed up in four words: "purgatory on earth".
Yangon Port is neither bright nor chaotic, and its ecology can be described as "the hustle and bustle of the world", making it more peaceful.
The same people, in the same noise of talking, cursing, laughing and muttering, are separated into completely different worlds.
There are floating emerald treasure ships, container ships laden with rice and fabric shirts, and private sailboats raising their sails to chase the sunrise.
The well-dressed businessman and the beggar sleeping on the street are only one street apart. The naked and dark-chested laborer carrying rice and the bikini girl who also exposed a large area of skin and applied tanning cream on her body waiting to board the yacht are at the entrance to different docks. Passing each other on the trail.
The air whistle sounds day and night.
It was there that Katsuko Sakai originally selected for the on-site collection of paintings for the Singapore Art Exhibition.
After Mrs. Sakai heard about her daughter's plan to visit the wells in Yangon, she was still thinking about whether to contact the security team to strengthen the security team.
Unexpectedly, Sakai Katsuko changed her mind so quickly.
"The theme of 'hustle and bustle of the world' is a bit too stereotyped to go to the port to paint the various scenes of the market. I think the idea of this theme is actually better now. It is less tacky and more Zen."
Gu Weijing touched his chin and commented.
For submissions similar to urban life, the organizing committee will definitely receive not only 300 to 500 submissions, but 70 to 80 submissions.
After seeing it too much, no matter how good the painting is, it will no longer be novel.
"Yeah, I think so too."
The article is written by nature, and the wonderful writing comes by chance.
The same goes for painting.
Sakai Katsuko looked at the composition of the picture where she captured Jasmine and the cat sitting side by side on the steps of the concierge.
No matter how much I like it, I am extremely satisfied.
"Is it my imagination? I suddenly discovered that my sketching technique seems to be -" Sakai Katsuko stared at the charcoal sketch on the drawing board in front of her and spoke softly.
At this time, Gu Weijing also discovered the difference between the expressive power of Miss Sakai's sketches and the previous ones.
"——My sketching skills seem to have improved a lot!"
The two people said in tacit agreement almost in unison.
The sketches in front of you on the drawing board are dynamic and detailed.
Although it is only a rough outline of the subject, the form, texture, space and light are all handled very appropriately.
Sakai Katsuko's original pen sketch of the Shwedagon Pagoda was also very delicate, but it lacked the vivid vitality of the sketch at this time.
Gu Weijing threw a calligraphy and painting appraisal technique on it.
[Girl and Cat Reading Poetry·Draft]
[Sketch Technique: lv.5 Professional Painter·Level 2 (16/10000)]
"Congratulations. This is not an illusion. You have somewhat grasped the art of brushstrokes. This is the starting point of a sketch master." Gu Weijing sighed.
Sakai Katsuko has been stuck at the bottleneck of Level 4 professional painter for quite some time.
Painting pays attention to fate, like climbing a snow-capped mountain.
One level of mountain is one level of pass.
Every time he conquers a huge rock pass, he will usher in a stage of rapid growth in his painting skills.
Professor Lin Tao believes that Gu Weijing lacks sufficient artistic accumulation, so his way of practice is to read "Sky Rain and Fragrance" and draw wisteria flowers.
Bashu, Milan, Paris, Provence, Florence...
Katsuko Sakai has been traveling around the world since she was a child, visiting various masters. She has traveled to famous art cities around the world, even to places as remote as Yangon.
When she entered the field of oil painting, the most important thing she lacked was the accumulation of art and culture, but she lacked the nourishment of the fresh breath of life outside of museums and art galleries.
The emotion of painting and the techniques of painting are two completely different artistic routes.
However, the novel painting experience that broke the barrier between the inner heart and the painting also eliminated the bottleneck that hindered the improvement of her skills for Ms. Katsuko.
in particular,
Sakai Katsuko has been practicing extra diligently recently.
With little girl Jasmine reading poetry, it was a matter of course to upgrade her painting skills to the second level of her profession.
(End of chapter)
