Autistic Art: Nascrow Painting

Jacqueline, who is an autistic person, is my favorite neologist. She started this at a very young age...referring to her older brother as a bridiot and, even better, a rumple-schpookin-man-boy. She would also ask interesting questions, like, "Why on earth are you bocking me?" And she would refer to things by slightly wrong names, e.g. calling You Tube "The You Tub." I found all of these irresistible, and have taken to using all of her neologisms as often as possible. And it's not just me--a lot of my friends have taken up Jacqueline's words, too.

Well. One day as we were going for our usual walk (she's now gone a year and a half without missing her step goal a single time), she noticed a couple of crows on a neighbor's lawn and turned to me and said, "Those are Nascrows!"

Well...I was delighted. I immediately felt the need to repeat the word. Nascrows. It felt good to say it. I asked her why they were Nascrows as opposed to regular crows, and, as is usually the case, she got a little angry with me. I assume that to her this was an inordinately stupid question (worthy of a bridiot) and that it was beneath her to explain. 

I'm used to that, though, so it didn't really bother me. Besides, I had a new toy to play with. I would say, "Nascrow," and then chuckle a bit.

As is often the case, Jacqueline had no interest in returning to the scene of the word crime, so when I asked her if she would do a painting of a Nascrow, she did not want to do it. After multiple refusals over the course of several weeks, I finally smartened up and put a blank canvas down on the table and left it there until she noticed it. Then I got out some blue paint and asked her to paint the canvas blue. She did, and we let that sit for a day. The next day I got out yellow paint and asked her to paint a sun. She did. And we let that sit for the day. The next day I asked her if she wanted to write the word Nascrow and then paint one. She did. I really couldn't figure out her Nascrow, though, so I asked her to paint another one. It looked about the same as the first one, but I could kind of make out two wings and a head this time.

And now I put this moment here:

I asked her if she wanted to make a video talking about her painting, and she said yes...but this is what I got:

She's a woman of few words. About her art, anyway.