autism

[saltydogsal]

is 13 today. He is getting so old. It's hard to connect that red infant to this big lumpy guy. He was born in a hospital because he was premature, and the nurses stole him away from me at the birth - just across the room, but away and I was mad and he was crying and I still don't know what they were thinking. But if there was an instinct that maybe something was amiss, they were right. I'm glad they couldn't find any evidence, though, because it just would have kept him from me longer, and the very best thing for his brain was to be on my body.

I got him a vibrator and a puzzle book. We're ordering a swing frame, too, so he can swing indoors.

Thirteen is pretty old.