Tommer
It's been a while since I've written anything in my journal, but today I feel the need to write here again.
It's about my son, Tommer, and the little miracles that happen to him daily this year :)
We just celebrated his fourth birthday this past week, both with the family and in the special kindergarten.
How can I even express this? The kid has autism, he has dyspraxia, which is a difficulty in planning movement and speech, and still, he seems to overcome all that!!!
Finally, he is actually beginning to speak. He understands language perfectly, he is communicative, and he even builds "sentences" made of a combination of short words and hand gestures. You can't imagine how difficult it is for him, and yet he is so motivated, and so happy being understood, that he fights it. He fights his dyspraxia, and he will speak in real sentences eventually, I'm sure of it. They told me in the kindergarten that they examined whether he can be prepared for integration in a "normal" kindergarten, and he passed. My greatest hope is that by the time he goes to first grade, he will be integrated into the same school my other children are going to. Hold your fingers crossed for him, it is not an impossibility!
When I was pregnant with him, I was so much in love with Lestat (I still am, I'm just not as crazy, lol), and I remember wishing that he would have some sort of similarity in anything. Ha ha, it turned out much worse that I could imagine. Autistic people are flooded by their own senses in a very similar way to newly made vampires. But just like them, my son slowly learns to overcome these distractions and focus on other important things in life, just like any other kid, only a bit more slowly on account of fighting those distractions. Strong vampires can handle their sensual distractions, and so can my son, it gets better and better each passing day.
It's about my son, Tommer, and the little miracles that happen to him daily this year :)
We just celebrated his fourth birthday this past week, both with the family and in the special kindergarten.
How can I even express this? The kid has autism, he has dyspraxia, which is a difficulty in planning movement and speech, and still, he seems to overcome all that!!!
Finally, he is actually beginning to speak. He understands language perfectly, he is communicative, and he even builds "sentences" made of a combination of short words and hand gestures. You can't imagine how difficult it is for him, and yet he is so motivated, and so happy being understood, that he fights it. He fights his dyspraxia, and he will speak in real sentences eventually, I'm sure of it. They told me in the kindergarten that they examined whether he can be prepared for integration in a "normal" kindergarten, and he passed. My greatest hope is that by the time he goes to first grade, he will be integrated into the same school my other children are going to. Hold your fingers crossed for him, it is not an impossibility!
When I was pregnant with him, I was so much in love with Lestat (I still am, I'm just not as crazy, lol), and I remember wishing that he would have some sort of similarity in anything. Ha ha, it turned out much worse that I could imagine. Autistic people are flooded by their own senses in a very similar way to newly made vampires. But just like them, my son slowly learns to overcome these distractions and focus on other important things in life, just like any other kid, only a bit more slowly on account of fighting those distractions. Strong vampires can handle their sensual distractions, and so can my son, it gets better and better each passing day.