Autism

Little Daniel's speech started to recede at 18months, he stopped humming his favorite song  and he eventually stopped talking at the age of 3. And he started to do this jumpy dance  and flap his ears relentlessly when he was watching TV. I have to stop him so he wouldn't pass out or turn the TV off before he will stop jumping. I am talking about continuous jump, it was heartbreaking to watch and it was like he zoned off into another realm. After a while, we stopped watching TV all together.

Everyone was worried that something was off about him but as a mother you do not want to hear that about your little boy that have already being through a lot to be alive. I tuned them out and my enabler was my pediatrician who said he might just have some delays and nothing to worry about. I was comforted by those words and I wanted it to be so but it was not.

However, we had a development therapist who said I needed to get my son checked because he was exhibiting the same kind of traits one of her clients who was autistic got.
I was like Autism again, so I braved up and took him to Autism specialist  and with  one look at Daniel, he was medically declared  Autistic.

I felt bad that my son was not PERFECT and it hurts but deep down I  felt a kind of relief because now we can deal with these issues  I have been shelving away for so long.
 Now we can fight!

So Daniel is in school, he was admitted into school by 3 years and he has speech and occupational therapy at school and the improvements are showing.

He says thank you, yum-yum (Food),  Dana ( Sister's name), noooooh(no), waha(water) and of course mickey mouse and many more.

 Yea! Everyday is a different and we are working towards progress.