Thursday, March 26, 2009

Frendly neighbourhood spiderman.

On a nicer front, this article made me smile. I love that they approached the boy using symbols and language that would reach him on his level in a time of high stress, rather than trying to force him to react as a neurotypical kid or using force and traumatising him further.

Also, the image of Spiderman rescuing a scared child on the side of a building is just awesome regardless of what the context was. In fact, if I was walking past the school and glanced up, I don't think I'd want the explanation.

4 comments:

Gaina said...

Oh dear, that made me 'well up' a little bit.... ;-)

garbo in paint said...

best. story. ever.

hexy said...

Yeah, I got a little teary too :)

Lucy said...

Count me in for the teary bit. Totally awesome and brilliant firefighter.