Friday, August 24, 2012
The Enigma
My dear Birdie.
How many times a day do you look at your fledgling and ask, 'How is that even possible?', when they do things that are completely contrary to their abilities, things that their OCD or SPD or autism make so hard for them to do. The boy has the most incredible vocabulary, yes, my boy, the one who can't hold a 'normal' conversation, the one who until we put him on med's rarely spoke at all. In fact the same boy who never reads, well not books anyway. He can't process what you say to him unless you break it down into small components and even then you may have to repeat it several times. Yet when he does speak, not only are his subjects erudite, he has such a grasp of the English language I wonder to whom I am speaking sometimes, most of the time I'm not even sure what the words mean. Little bugger knows his vocab is superior too and isn't afraid to stop mid sentence and ask if I know what such and such a word means either. He gets more and more like Sheldon everyday. Pod casts are to blame, his nightly listening of intellectual jibberjabber filling his head with all sorts of profound nonsense;p Turns out those hours of Sex and the City watching did nothing to help me become his intellectual equal. Still I dress better than him and what could be more important than that!
Always Yours
Sparrow
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Sparrow, I recently posted a request for information on your boy's Facebook page-maybe you saw. Knowing him the way I do, I knew that not only would he have the information I wanted, but he would honour me by speaking to me as one intellectual being to another though we both know his intelligence surpasses mine already...talking to him is like talking to a professor and I admire that about him. I wish, for his sake that he could be more "child-like" but, on second thought, I take that back. He wouldn't be happy "child-like". He was born an adult :) He has an extraordinary brain and I admire it.
ReplyDeletePlus, you do dress better than him and he would roll his eyes at me for this comment but I wish I could show you the incredible Franco Sarto dress boots I just bought-Fall is coming, my favourite fashion time of year! Is he rolling his eyes?