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Thanksgiving, 2009I'm so thankful that my son, a mathematician/scientist who, a generation ago would have been deprived of a scientific career the way the fictional Raymond Babbit was in The Rain Man, gets to be a member of the international team of scientists researching at the recently-operational Large Hadron Collider. Yay!David submitted his Department of Energy Fellowship application today, and is completing applications to CALTECH, UC San Diego, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and UC…See More

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Hi, I'm Mary Nisson. Welcome to the catholicautism community of the Ning Network. My son, David, has a diagnosis of "High Functioning Autism", but, according to Dr. Darrold Treffert, David is an Autistic Savante. David is a Regents Scholar in High Energy Physics at UC Davis, and is a candidate for the Department of Energy Fellowship for graduate school. How did I get him here?By FAITH, FAITH, FAITH!I help David with everything from getting ready in the morning, to escorting him to classes, to…See More

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Thanksgiving, 2009

I'm so thankful that my son, a mathematician/scientist who, a generation ago would have been deprived of a scientific career the way the fictional Raymond Babbit was in The Rain Man, gets to be a member of the international team of scientists researching at the recently-operational Large Hadron Collider. Yay!

David submitted his Department of Energy Fellowship application today, and is completing applications to CALTECH, UC San Diego, University of… Continue

Posted by Mary Nisson on November 27, 2009 at 12:59pm