My son is 13.
He likes to recite facts incessantly.
His voice is changing. He likes it.
He's growing and is an inch taller than I.
His mental age and his emotional age is around 10. I'm not worried. He'll catch up.
Baseball has become his newest obsession fascination.
He needs to be exposed to as many experiences as possible so he can refer to them to properly react. His mind will need to be like a database. He doesn't understand social clues so he'll need to add to his database so he can pull the proper responses out of his hard drive aka his brain.
He still cries when he gets upset. It still breaks my heart to see those tears roll out of his eyes.
He plays house with his 6 year old sister. How many 13 year olds would do that?
He acts like a teenager sometimes.
He will still hold his mother's hand while walking in the parking lot. His hand is bigger than mine.
He will also sit in his mother's lap still. I can only handle that for a few minutes.
My son has autism.
This is the face of autism. And, I love him.
April is Autism Awareness Month.
Thank you for sharing Brother with the world, KC. I wish everyone could know him personally. He is a wonderful young man and I love him, too! <3
Posted by: Sue | April 01, 2012 at 07:27 AM
I can say only that my husband and I were completely charmed by your funny and talkative son. I'm sure you have your struggles, but you are doing such a great job raising him. He's so blessed to have you and I'm so happy that we had the chance to spend some time with him (and all of you!)
Posted by: Jennifer | April 02, 2012 at 10:42 AM
What a sweetheart.
Posted by: Karen Edmisten | April 04, 2012 at 04:44 PM
KC-thanks for sharing these glimpses into your family. My oldest son is about the same age as your son and doesn't have autism. They do sound similar though (no shaving here yet, but oh the voice cracking is driving me crazy!) and it makes me wonder if we can encourage a virtual friendship of sorts. Does your son communicate through email? Does he do better via Skype? How could I prepare my son to be a friend to yours? Please email me to discuss further....
Posted by: Tracy C. | May 01, 2012 at 07:44 AM