Waiting for Angels

Helping the children with special needs, to adapt to the world better, the illustrated books on the subjects, translated…

Since I had my son, I’d known, that there wasn’t, “normal” ,or “ordinary” in the world, or, the “healthy” children, each and every child is special, and there may be small issues of health concerns in their lives, cavities, allergies, uneven legs, slanted necks, to bigger issues, such as Strong, who was, diagnosed with a rare condition.

Since we were growing up, we’d gotten this idea implanted into our minds, so long as we’re different from others, then, we’re, “abnormal”, “defective”, “fearful”, “difficult to raise”, to even, “atrocious”, plus, if you’d done your eugenics beforehand, and get rid of those “bad fetuses”, certainly, it, would’ve, helped a lot of families in caretaking of their abnormal children, but, if you had, actually found, that there are, genetic abnormalities in your unborn child, do you, really have that abortion  Who, has the right, to make the calls of who’s normal and who’s not?  Or make the decisions of who gets to be born?  I think, this, is a difficult choice, for every single family.

As I was pregnant with Strong, I was, already, on the verge of entering into an elderly pregnancy age, the doctor suggested the amniocentesis for me, from before, we’d, already, tested Strong for Downs’s Syndrome, and received that there was a low chance of him having trisomy-21, and, our triplets got reduced to just him, which means, we do not want to risk the chances of miscarriage or infections anymore.

We’d, made the decisions, and, carried the burdens of the consequences, then, as we live from day to day with Strong, we’d, felt the trials, the happiness, in seeing him grow older by the day.

What’s worrisome to us is, as we’d, learned to chase what’s “normal”, how many of us, can actually, get to know the “abnormal” children?  How much kindness, can we, expect, from the outside world for our group of special needs children to be treated as if, they were, oridinary?

I’d loved the three illustrated books on special needs children, “The World of My Younger Brother”, “Woodpecker Girl”, and “The New Clothes of Emperor Asperger”, and the series had, invited the local creators, to share their real-life stories, to show us the inner worlds of children with Asperger’s, cerebral palsy and autism too, it’d, clearly shown, the difficulties, the fun for these children, in interacting with those around them, socializing with the outside world, I’m sure, that so long as the parents take their young to read these volumes, even if it was for a five-year-old child, s/he would know, how to approach, and get along well, with children with special needs.

I don’t expect everybody to be an angel to Strong, I just hope, that as, he’d, spread his wings, he can have an open sky, without any sort of obstructions in his way.

And so, this, is a mother’s wish for her special needs son, and, although, the world is more opened up now, that we’d, come to the acceptances of the existences of these children being a part of the world, we still, hadn’t quite, accepted them, or started treating them as if they were, just like the rest of us yet.