I may have mentioned that a couple of weeks ago, Emily tried out for her school talent show. Her talent? Telling jokes. Pretty big for an kid with autism who doesn’t like to make eye contact and routinely tells us that she just doesn’t want to talk right now.
Well, today was the show! I asked Emily how she felt onstage, and she told me, “I felt so, so, so, so, excited!”
Em’s teacher said that onstage, she was very confident and expressive, “like she is when she’s reading sometimes, with the eyebrows and everything” and was loud and clear. (Em does have a very expressive voice when she reads, giving things a lot of appropriate and sometimes dramatic inflection.) Her teacher says that Em got good laughs from the kids.
I asked Emily to tell me a joke that she told at the talent show: “What goes ‘ha ha ha plop plop?’ An audience laughing their heads off!”
Then when they got back to the class, she spontaneously started leading the class in song and dance. It was a song about “thumbs up, thumbs down” that she learned in school. You know, for a kid with Emily’s challenges, she really has shown an affinity for showbiz. She is, at her request, having a week of drama camp this summer.
My baby was born to be a star!
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