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Is 4-year-old Marla Olmstead a painting prodigy or the instrument of a hoax? "My Kid Could Paint That" asks fascinating questions about art, family and journalistic ethics.
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    ...even if most kids, given the choice, paint representational art, what of the autistic and Asperger's kids who become obsessed with colors and patterns to the near-exclusion of things like faces?

    (I knew an autistic kid at the preschool I worked at. Logan for a few weeks kept making triangles out of things. Blocks, dolls, markers, play-doh "snakes", you name it, it got arranged into triangle shapes. I have no idea why.)