What's Poppin', Baby Love?

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MOVED

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Echolilia

All parents love their children. But what do you do when you can’t connect with them? In my case, I started making photographs of, and with, my son Elijah, who has autism spectrum disorder. This series—the title is from “echolalia,” a clinical term for the mimicking aspect of his condition—shows the bridges we’ve built on our shared journey of wonder, discovery, and understanding.

We began this project when Eli was five. He was doing well at school but fixating on odd things, lashing out, speaking repetitively. My wife and I couldn’t figure him out. Then I started taking pictures of him around the house. It was an instinctive act for a photographer: Point your camera at something in order to make sense of it. But a curious thing happened. As I documented what Eli was doing and creating, he became interested in the images I was making. I was learning how he thinks; he was learning what I like and value.

We soon had a system. Eli would do something unusual, one of us would notice, and we’d make a photo of it together. The pictures we took over three years were more raw and feral than anything I’d done as an editorial or advertising photographer. And more personal. This is, after all, the story of a father and his son.

Timothy Archibald’s book, Echolilia: Sometimes I Wonder, was published last year by Echo Press. See more of his work at timothyarchibald.com.

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Yeah. Yeah.

I’ll stop reblogging all the hilarious Magneto stuff from xmenanimated now. Maybe.

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Robert Downey Jr as…

…Quinn Fabray from Glee

…Bella Swan from Twilight

…Olive Penderghast from Easy A

…Hermione Granger from Harry Potter

…Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl

…Effy Stonem from Skins

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flapperorslapper:

I totally sent it.

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remember when lollipops used to be the solution to all our problems?

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and here I rest where disappointment and regret collide

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♥ ♥ ♥

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asofter1stclass:

Submitted by xaviersblogforgiftedyoungsters.

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Reblog if you are against bullying

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this must have more notes

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THAT AWKWARD MOMENT WHEN ALL SAD LOVE SONGS REMIND YOU OF MCFASSY

I'm asking for your help I am going through hell Afraid nothing can save me but the sound of your voice You cut out all the noise And now that I can see mistakes so clearly now I'd kill if I could take you back But how? How?

-How, Maroon 5

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inesdelsol:

I love Tuesdays. I love tumblr.