He's sifting sand...all alone...other kids are playing with toys, talking, arguing.
The family is laughing and visiting...but I can't feel right because he's up there
By Himself....I'm joking and chatting while he's all alone...
He doesn't seem to mind, but this isn't what is right...what is right is that we find a way..somehow-to include him in this event...we get him to jump with another kid, we get another kid to follow him....SOMETHING!
Swinging alone...sifting alone. He drops his beads to the floor and jumps. This repeats 20 times. He spins his "anemone", he asks, "Hose on?!" 30 times straight. Everything is 20 times.
He's 6 and a half....he repeats a few things a lot. But his FACE shows SO MUCH MORE!!
He understands so much more than he can say. But people write him off because he can't talk to them. He's in a different world, trying to find a place of his own. Other kids try to talk to him, and he doesn't answer...so they go on...
But when he wakes up in the morning, full of joy, a face of wonder...when I pick him up at noon from school to start our busy afternoons...what happiness, a big hug to see me--we HAVE to get him to play with other kids. Thank God for Soren!
I wonder, HOW???? about all the other things he needs to learn? How am I going to teach this child to read when he won't sit down? With additional diagnoses of hyperactivity disorder and verbal apraxia that make it even MORE difficult for him, as if the initial diagnosis of autism wasn't enough.
Will he read? Will he write? Will he speak in sentences?
Or will the rest of us just learn that there is more to life than words, words, words.
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My heart is with you even though I can never really understand what it is like to want a relationship with your child that you do not have. Yea he is probably more ok with his life then you are but you will not rest until he has had every opportunity within the challenges he faces- That is called being a great Mom!
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