Master (I use the term “Master” as a title because I didn’t hear his first name) Andrada was only 7 years old when the terrorist attack on the twin towers occurred but it has deeply affected his life. Master Andrada wasn’t in NY city at the time of the attack. In fact, he’s never been to the United States. This boy was born and has lived his entire life halfway around the world in the Philippines.
Master Andrada has become obsessed with the topic of the Twin Towers attack. At first he began to draw pictures of it.
Then he started to recreate the New York City skyline. His current small scale model has removable twin towers.
His story was featured on the evening news the other night on ABSCBN in the Philippines. He appeared with his mother, who told us that he has been diagnosed with autism.
Although he is in somewhat handicapped by his condition, his IQ is reportedly 133. He has hopes of coming to the US someday to study architecture.
Master Andrada has a lot in common with the George W Bush, the president of the US. George Bush admits that 9-11 changed everything for him as well. George W. Bush also has shown the same obsessive behavior, but instead of making constructive models of NY City, the president focuses destructive energy on Iraq, a nation that had nothing to do with the attack on NY City. I wish that the US devoted more of its money to special education for persons who are afflicted with problems and for others so they can recognize a problem when they see one. The goal is to have persons with propblems receive professional guidance to help them to channel their energy in productive ways.
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but I thought that its content may be of interest to one or two folks here.
The topic of IQ and how to define it is intriguing. Here is a link to another autistic person with an interest in architecture.
http://www.stephenwi…
called ‘the battle of the brains’, where they took people who were gifted in many areas, and challenged them to tasks which required different ‘types’ of intelligence. there was a physicist with a high traditional iq, a playwright, an artist, a jet fighter, a musical prodigy, a wall street prodigy, and a couple of others.
the overall high scorers were the physicist with the high iq and the playwright tied for first place (her traditional iq score wasnt even in the top 3 for the contest). a very interesting study of how iq is measured..and what ‘intelligence’ means..if only marginally related to your essay… 😉
I hope he gets to New York to study architecture!
And I hope certain power seekers who not only have poor foresight, can’t seem to muster a reality-based hindsight get the help we so deary need them to get!