Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku

Kathie Giorgio was forty years old when she gave birth to the baby she and her husband, Michael, planned for, hoped for, dreamed of. But Olivia wasn't anyone this veteran mother of three teenagers expected. Olivia cried all the time. She wouldn't eat table food. She wouldn't speak. Her favorite toy was a bucket of hundreds of tiny plastic bears in rainbow colors that she spent hours every day arranging in a long looping line through the house. And finally...she was diagnosed as autistic when she was three years old. Kathie and Michael, both writers, were told that their daughter would never have words, and that she would only see them as "bumps on a log". Yet she smiled at them every day.

Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku is the story, in poetic form, of a mother's love for her autistic child, and the way that love could blast through a diagnosis and lift this little girl who smiled. Kathie smiled back.

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Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku

Kathie Giorgio was forty years old when she gave birth to the baby she and her husband, Michael, planned for, hoped for, dreamed of. But Olivia wasn't anyone this veteran mother of three teenagers expected. Olivia cried all the time. She wouldn't eat table food. She wouldn't speak. Her favorite toy was a bucket of hundreds of tiny plastic bears in rainbow colors that she spent hours every day arranging in a long looping line through the house. And finally...she was diagnosed as autistic when she was three years old. Kathie and Michael, both writers, were told that their daughter would never have words, and that she would only see them as "bumps on a log". Yet she smiled at them every day.

Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku is the story, in poetic form, of a mother's love for her autistic child, and the way that love could blast through a diagnosis and lift this little girl who smiled. Kathie smiled back.

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Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku

Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku

by Kathie Giorgio
Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku

Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku

by Kathie Giorgio

Overview

Kathie Giorgio was forty years old when she gave birth to the baby she and her husband, Michael, planned for, hoped for, dreamed of. But Olivia wasn't anyone this veteran mother of three teenagers expected. Olivia cried all the time. She wouldn't eat table food. She wouldn't speak. Her favorite toy was a bucket of hundreds of tiny plastic bears in rainbow colors that she spent hours every day arranging in a long looping line through the house. And finally...she was diagnosed as autistic when she was three years old. Kathie and Michael, both writers, were told that their daughter would never have words, and that she would only see them as "bumps on a log". Yet she smiled at them every day.

Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku is the story, in poetic form, of a mother's love for her autistic child, and the way that love could blast through a diagnosis and lift this little girl who smiled. Kathie smiled back.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781646628520
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Publication date: 08/26/2022
Pages: 46
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.11(d)

About the Author

KATHIE GIORGIO is the critically acclaimed author of six novels, The Home For Wayward Clocks (2011), Learning To Tell (A Life)Time (2013), Rise From The River (2015), In Grace's Time (2017), If You Tame Me (2019), and All Told (2021), two story collections, Enlarged Hearts (2012) and Oddities & Endings; The Collected Stories Of Kathie Giorgio (2016), a collection of essays, Today's Moment Of Happiness Despite The News; A Year Of Spontaneous Essays (2018), and three poetry books, True Light Falls In Many Forms (2016), When You Finally Said No (2019), and No Matter Which Way You Look, There Is More To See (2020). Giorgio's short stories and poems have appeared in countless literary magazines and anthologies.
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