Thinking

I've been reading a book called A Real Boy by Christina Adams.  It is about her son's recovery from autism.  Here again, I find yet another person that had a similar situation to us with discovering that their child was autistic.  So many problems.  SOOOO many.  Enough to send you on a search for what the HELL is wrong, reading every book known to man. 

I've repeatedly gone to our peditiritian, known as the best in our area, for help--only to be met with an attitude as if I am an overprotective, goofy mom or that I need to crack down on discipline.  Even when Isaac started going off into staring spells in October while watching his hand flap, she still argued against the fact that something was wrong.  Thankfully, she at least wrote me a referral, but I don't think I can forgive the fact that she refused to even check out my son for signs of physical problems.

Everytime I read a checklist for autism, I never saw Isaac in the list.  He made great eye contact.  He was sociable.  He loved peek-a-boo and chase games.  He repeated whole phrases and said his first words early.  He met every milestone!!!  He loved to be held and wanted constant attention and interaction.  He pointed. The only things I could find on the list that were some of his traits were tip toe walking and resistant to change.  He also resisted certain types of cuddling, but yet he craved being held and other types of touch.

I asked a peditritian, during a fill-in-appointment while our other peditritian was out of town, about Isaac's tip toe walking.  He examined Isaac's feet and told me that his tendons were short and it would take some time to stretch.  He showed me some exercises to do with Isaac to help his feet claiming that this would take care of the problem.

I feel that our peditritians along with autism websites have really done us a disservice--prolonging our agony in trying to find out what was going on with Isaac. 

I'm going to include a document that I wrote at Isaac's first birthday that gives some insight into our situation.  Part of my purpose on writing this blog is to document what is going on with Isaac.  I've found that it is easy to forget.  I think there must be a part of mommy instincts that help you to forget horrible situations with your child--for instance when your child tries to bite your face in the middle of an unexplainable tantrum.  My hopes is to be able to one day go back and see how far we have come.  Presently, we are in the darkest pit I have ever been in.  But, we are holding on to Hope.

To read more about Christina Adam's book, A Real Boy, click the link: http://www.christinaadamswriter.com/books.html