Standards

Wherever you go and whoever you meet there are certain standards you have to go.  For example when your children “should” do something.  There is a variety of conditions that are expected to be followed before the child goes to school and there should be.

One of the difficulties which I had with some doctors - they would ask why Johnathan didn’t speak to them or whatever it was they wanted him to do. and when I replied “he’s got Autism” they would ask me who service had told me that and when they heard he HADN’T  been formally diagnosed and getting treatment they told me I couldn’t say he was.  Fact is, the asked me why he didn’t do something and I gave them the best answer I could.  

You see, when Johnathan was born, I could tell something was different about him.  I couldn’t have told you THEN what it was but I suspected it was when he had difficulties going to sleep AND going to sleep in the dark.  He would even scream without waking if somebody turned the light off.  I knew something was going on with him.

When a child is autistic, they don’t grow the same as their peers and learn things at different times to others.  And a child with autism isn;t autistic the day you are given the idiagnosis, they are autistic from birth.  Their brain pattern develops DIFFERENTLY  IN THE WOMB.  

So he is and was the way he was, a loveable child who is sometimes cuddly at times, and very intelligent.  I was thinking the school were catching up to his level now, but no, he’s raced on ahead and was asking Kevin about some mathematical theory that Kevin didn’t know and he asked if I would know - not a CHANCE!  When he was reading it all out loud i didn’t even know what the words meant in mathematical terms

And I love my boy, who has a sense of humour that I tend to “not get”, bjut ot means he is forging aheard in his own way and if he wants to learn Japanese for example, well I’m not going to stop him!