Logan is slowly, slowly transforming before our eyes. His therapists say he is talking a lot at school. Some days he'll maintain eye contact for 5 whole seconds and I'm so caught off my guard I don't know what to do -- I'm afraid if I keep looking back I'll break the spell, but it's so amazing I just keep looking. Today he rode a tricycle while Audrey rode her new birthday trike in the driveway. And he sang "Twinkle, twinkle, Little star, How I wonder..." Then he tried to climb into Mumsie's van and go somewhere. Yesterday Logan said to Amanda, "Put it on the table," when she told him to put something away. I think this is one of the longest complete sentences he has uttered. [11/3]
[from friend] Laura: Trying to read and catch up with everything in your life.....I enjoy hearing stories of what your kiddos are up too and saying. I have a question...Is Logan developing slow? Or is there a challenge there? I think I have missed something becoming friends after all the kiddos were born.
Hi Laura, yes, Logan has autism. I would never have believed it could so utterly change one's life. It's very different from having a child with permanent retardation; there is a chance autistic people may be trained to grow beyond their symptoms, but there's also a chance they may not. You have to fight with all you've got to give them a chance, but you'll never know if your child is one of those who will make it. And it's a very slow fight. Like a marathon. [11/14]
Hi Laura, yes, Logan has autism. I would never have believed it could so utterly change one's life. It's very different from having a child with permanent retardation; there is a chance autistic people may be trained to grow beyond their symptoms, but there's also a chance they may not. You have to fight with all you've got to give them a chance, but you'll never know if your child is one of those who will make it. And it's a very slow fight. Like a marathon. [11/14]
