Raising Superman
by Beth
Our office was all atwitter last week — Easter Seals Headquarters is located in the Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower) in Chicago, and last week they were filming the new Superman movie, Man of Steel on the 25th floor. Right above us! Cosmic Book News explains, “the Board Of Trade Building will serve as exterior, with Willis Tower as interior for the Daily Planet.”
What a perfect segue to a book called Raising Superman: Autism 101. The book was written by Howard L. Rogers, the father of six children. Twenty years ago his oldest son was diagnosed with “one of the worst cases of autism their doctors and specialists had ever seen,” and Rogers says he wrote this book to help parents fight their own personal autism battles. His son’s severe autism and mental retardation caused continuous issues, problems and situations in his life that were unlike anything his family had ever dealt with before, and he says he felt that “few if any people on the planet had any idea what we were faced with on a daily basis.” He explains the title, Raising Superman, on his web site:
We needed to become “Super Advocates” to address all of our son’s “super special needs.” In addition, over the years we learned that although our son was our special superman, we were not. We had limits to what we could deal with emotionally, spiritually and financially. He continually challenged the limits of what we were capable of, making the need for these secrets, solutions, strategies and shortcuts even more vital for our family to survive. Hence the title of “RAISING SUPERMAN!” as he’s our special little superman and we’re his super advocates!
Back here at Wilis Tower, Clark Kent must have been working hard to advocate for good in his Daily Planet office upstairs last week — there sure was a lot of noise coming through the ceiling! We’re all wondering if we’ll be able to figure out what they were filming when, but that’llhave have to wait until next year, when the movie comes out.