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HOF said:but in the end, he gets both! :biggrin2:
SillyGirl said:Bump. I love this video. Thanks Tiny!
TINY said:The parameters of friendship are never absolute, but it's nice when a pal gives you a sense of purpose. And when it comes to her chum Bella, Bubbles the elephant's purpose is to serve as the world's biggest playmate and most patient diving board.
The 32-year-old elephant came to South Carolina's Myrtle Beach Safari in 1983, a rescued baby from the horrible slaughter of African adult elephants by ivory hunters. When a contractor hired to build a pool at the preserve in 2007 abandoned his black Labrador there, the two animals formed an unlikely bond.
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Doctors Said This Autistic Boy Would Never Speak, Now He’s on Track for a Nobel Prize
It's a tribute to a mother's instinct. Doctors know a lot, but they don't know everything. They certainly don't know your child like you do. According to The Mother List, that's what Kristine Barnett discovered after her son Jacob was diagnosed with autism when he was two.
Doctors said Jacob would never speak, teachers told her there was no hope, but Kristine disregarded the "experts" and followed her instincts. The results are nothing short of incredible.
Instead of focusing on what Jacob couldn't do, Kristine decided to focus on what he could do. She nurtured her son's passions. "He liked repetitive behaviors. He would play with a glass and look at the light, twisting it for hours on end. Instead of taking it away, I would give him 50 glasses, fill them with water at different levels and let him explore," she tells The Mother List. "I surrounded him with whatever he loved."
Kristine noticed a marked improvement in her son. So much so that he defied what doctors had said and spoke to his mom one night. "It was like music … because everybody had said it was an impossible thing … I would tuck him in every night and say, 'Goodnight, baby Jacob, you're my baby angel, and I love you very much.' One night he looked me straight in the eyes and said, 'Night-night baby bagel.' All along he must have thought I had been calling him a bagel!"
Jacob, now 15, is a student of theoretical physics at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, with an IQ measured to be higher than Einstein's. He's even on track to win a Nobel prize for his work.