Autism-World

My son is High Functioning Autistic. He is mainstreamed in school and does well. Why are these children a gift?

Well for many reasons. Some may be that the courage’ strength, the obstacles of functioning in life and society and being accepted are astronomical. We all can learn so much from all disabled children and adults.

These children see life from a whole different perspective than so called “normal” children. With seeing everything different than everyone else they must try that much harder to make their life work for them as each child and every person are different.

To look at my son, you would not know he is autistic at all, we worked day in and day out and had remarkable progress and even now daily I find amazement, wonder, joy in him and his intelligence is just incredible. For instance, he read the dictionary once, now every word he read he knows, knows spelling, meaning and also what page the word was on.

These people are often assumed as dumb. I have never met an autistic person who is dumb. They have had times socially, they have hard times w/ speech, they do have hard times cognitativly (Need him to spell for me), they just need to find their particular information road from their brain thru their bodies to then communicate with everyone and voice the needs.

It’s just a different way to cross the river than we all take.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 at 10:03 pm and is filed under Autism Stories.