Learning that your child is different, that he has his own growth schedules, and feeling more at ease, as he, catches up in development according to children his age, translated…
Out of our expectations, Strong was, very adapted to going to kindergarten, he’d started, looking after himself, interacted with the outside world now, and, his oral and nonverbal expressions, improved by a whole lot as well.
On his first day of school, he’d only started crying at nap time, because he didn’t have any of my breastmilk for half an hour, and, on the very first week as school started, he’d started throwing a tantrum, refusing to leave the house, and, a week later, we’d not needed to push him, he’d, RUN super fast, into the classrooms himself, found the stereo, and started, bouncing up and down, showing his teacher, that she needed to put on some music for him, so he can, shake with the music, getting his groove, or rushed to go to the group courses, he’d, left us, hung out to dry.
Before school started, we’d banged on the bowls with the spoons, as an encouragement to train him to use the spoon to feed himself, and as school started, under his teacher’s instructions, he’d not only learned to feed himself with a spoon, he’d also, worked up a huge appetite, and started, passing the small toy cars to and from his classmates, and played the game of barbecue, and, other than the few single syllable sounds he was able to speak in, he’d now, spoken quite articulately, “bye-bye, yum, milk”, the multiple syllabic words, he’d even, modeled after me as I’d, purred like a cat, and he’d, played house with me too, and, hummed the songs I was, singing, he’d started, imitating, and used his imagination too.
The early intervention from when he was born, was not wasted, the extra horse riding lessons, arts and aroma therapies, it’d helped, lowered his level of heightened sensitivity as well, plus, after school started, the five days a week social contact in the schools, the unscheduled setting him free outdoors, it’d, added more color to all our lives.
interacting with his cohort in school…
These seemingly, pointless repeated behaviors, are like the leaves that fell atop each other, as time passed through, various people came by, roused them up, and finally, the soil became, enriched, it’d, helped the language grow out of him, of the interests in humans, animals, and life itself.
He’d, worked hard, discovering the smallest things in his life, and found how earthlings are, worth his time to interact with, became, willing to, speak, learned, how to, interact with people now.
The writer of “The Talking Snake Plant”, Song-Yi Tsai, was the very FIRST master degree holder who’d been diagnosed with Kanner’s Syndrome, in this autobiography of his, he’d, documented the milestones of his own life, how he was, intrigued with plants, the buildings, taking strolls, shopping at 7-11, the steel gates that rolled downward, arts, reading and writing, it’d, became his areas of interests, and he’d, turned it into the thesis he was working on, as well as his designs in landscaping, although, he’d been, bullied, because of how he’d, interacted with the world differently, had his textbooks thrown out, getting laughed at, and many other instances of being picked on in school, with his stubborn nature, and his focus however, he’d, continued learning, and, designed the landscapes, to make the living environment better for all, and, wrote down, “if ‘socialization’ means you do whatever everybody tells you to, that there’s, nothing worth being stubborn over on earth, no dreams that you are persisting on, then, there’s, NOTHING fun being an earthling!”
That, is what we believed too, we believe, that Strong will become independent as he grow up, and, have his own ability to survive in this world, instead, of becoming, a person, who can’t think, independently.
And so, having autism is, a blessing, for this man who’d become, specialized in landscaping designs, and, the writer’s son became, better adapted, as he’d started, in kindergarten, and this still just showed, that if you worked hard, you will, make up for the shortcomings of your life, like this man who’d, written the book that the writer of this article spoke on.