Once when their grandmother was babysitting, Tyler figured out how to escape from their play area, and Julius was right behind him. Sometimes, though, that brought about a few headaches. Tyler would figure out how to do things, and Julius would follow suit. Loreen says that Julius probably has more physical and communication skills than he might have otherwise, thanks to being a twin. I want you to be specific.” The later diagnosis of autism when he was around 3-years-old helped Julius’s family understand his appropriate lines of treatment. As someone who’d been in the field of special education for 11 years at the time, Loreen says she knew that this diagnosis missed the mark. He was originally diagnosed at about 16 months with Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). “He had tongue thrust issues as a baby,” she says, relating that it caused Julius to choke when he was small. Regarding his early life and diagnosis, Julius’s mother, Loreen, says that Julius displayed many of the early characteristics of autism. Julius was born 24 hours after the initial injection of labor-inducing drugs. Loreen states that her labor was induced because of an increase in her blood pressure caused by edema. Born three hours and 23 minutes after Julius and by cesarean section, Tyler actually scored a zero Apgar score. In the first minutes after they were born, Julius received a much higher score than Tyler on the Apgar test, the measure which medical practitioners use to quickly summarize the health of newborns against infant mortality. He was born a fraternal twin to his brother, Tyler. When he meets a new person, he walks up, greets them by shaking their hand and lets them know that’s what he is.Īt the time of this writing, Julius Brown is a 27-year-old man with autism.
He doesn’t work with paint: “I don't like getting my clothes all stained and waterproof and disgusting.” Julius has chosen the title cartoonist/folk artist for himself. One thing Julius is very clear on, his product should be called sketches, not paintings. “Cause like for the inside, for example, I pour lots of glue in here,” he explains, holding up the end of a piece of art, “and I compress it for up to 13 hours, and then I do the other inside for another 13 hours or so with putting books on top of it so it'll hold.” Did anyone help him develop this technique? “That went inside my brain. He buys dozens of bottles of glue every month and uses the glue to seal the porous ends of his cardboard pieces, as well as coating the pieces all over, almost as if they were laminated. He’s developed a special technique for further preserving the pieces. Julius believes this medium works best for his art because it keeps the colors vibrant, and it helps the art travel well. He draws almost exclusively on cardboard. His drawings of animals-lions, tigers, aardvarks, zebras, rhinos-many of them white, are set against brightly colored backgrounds in diagonal, straight or swirled patterns. He’s in his element, concentrating, in command of all the colors.Īnd color is what Julius is all about.
Indeed, it is a very powerful thing to watch Julius while he works. “Am I more powerful than ever?” Julius wonders aloud, as he works to fill in the colors on his latest drawing.
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