{"id":2204,"date":"2007-11-10T16:05:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T23:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2007-11-10T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T23:05:21","slug":"reasons-come-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2204\/reasons-come-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons Come First"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine your 6 year old daughter playing with a Rubik\u2019s Cube fresh out of the box on her birthday. She notices the six completed, colored sides in perfect visual harmony, whites across from yellows, reds from oranges, blues from greens. She rotates the cube, studies it, and then, slowly, begins to turn it, first the top counterclockwise, then the left side clockwise, then the right and bottom. She finds it fun to rotate and manipulate with her tiny hands, and it\u2019s cool how she notices the changing patterns of colors on each side. You wonder if she\u2019s recognizing how challenging the puzzle has become, because you notice as she begins to slow down. As she stops and looks at you, you realize that the fun \u201cflashback\u201d gift (given to her by someone in your family) will become your challenge for the next several hours or days, because she wants you<\/em><\/strong> to fix it.<\/p>\n

FILO! (my new word around the kids, thanks Geno), now what? It\u2019s my fault for not noticing what she was doing in the beginning. I can\u2019t reverse the steps. And, I wasn\u2019t one of those genius kids 20 years ago that could finish it blindfolded, with one arm behind my back, or in a taxi, as portrayed by Will Smith\u2019s character in In the Pursuit of Happiness<\/em>. You\u2019re probably thinking, most 6 year olds can rationalize to some extent that you can\u2019t fix it, so they get bored and move on. Then, you bury the cube in the toy box and hope they don\u2019t find it again, at least when you\u2019re not around. But, imagine this scenario and that your 6 year old daughter, as mine is, being afflicted with autism.<\/p>\n

There is no rationalization, no cute distraction that moves her focus away from the problem at hand, right now. It\u2019s now my<\/strong> problem. And, I can either, throw the damn thing away, endure the hours of endless tantrums and hope that she never sees another Rubik\u2019s cube ever again in her life, or I can solve it. I recall the line from the original Die Hard<\/em> movie, \u201cI eat Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine your 6 year old daughter playing with a Rubik\u2019s Cube fresh out of the box on her birthday. She notices the six completed, colored sides in perfect visual harmony, whites across from yellows, reds from oranges, blues from greens. 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