Tangent First, Update Second

Slight Tangent before I get into the real topic of this post- So I don’t believe childless people who say they’re busy. Every single time they say that I think, You’re lying. Or occasionally if I’m feeling especially nice You don’t have a clue what the word busy actually means. If I didn’t have my children and everything that goes with them, I could conquer the world. I could really learn how to surf, and read all the books I’ve been meaning to read, I could actually go a gym rather than run at 5am when everyone was asleep because that’s the only time I can slot for myself and maybe even watch an episode of Lost. I mean I’ve been married and I’ve been to college and I’ve worked full time, but nothing makes you busy like children. I told this to my husband and you know what he said, Yeah I don’t think people without children are really busy, but you know people like Suzanne with 4 kids, she probably looks at us when we say we’re busy and thinks You have no idea. I stopped and thought about Suzanne who has 4 children including a newborn, going to school full time while her husband’s deployed. You do have point, maybe I’m not as busy as I thought.

But seriously, for arguments sake, we’re busy. Which is why I haven’t been posting as much. And I feel like I have an obligation or something like that to tell what’s been going on with Seporah. So it’s going to end up this post isn’t quite so funny. Maybe I’ll put a picture at the end to make it better.

So everyone agrees that Seporah has High Functioning Autism. Everyone at the Developmental Center Evaluation team and everyone at the elementary school. It’s taken me a while to be able to say it, but now I can say my daughter has Autism without feeling like I have to puke every time.

Do you remember in the movie Forrest Gump, when his mom goes to the school and the principle shows her the graph showing Forrest wasn’t normal. We had the same experience. We got shown a graph. “Here’s normal, and here’s low normal, and here’s Seporah way down here.” Let me tell you, I felt like crap. I didn’t screw the principle afterwards like Forrest’s mom did (especially since she’s a woman), but Seporah did get accepted into the Special Education Preschool. We have to do a few things and she’ll start very shortly. The class will have 8 children and 2 teachers. So it’s a very nice ratio and everyone seems very nice and supportive. But I didn’t think I’d be sending my daughter to preschool so early. And it’s all day Monday-Friday preschool too, not just a couple hours here and there. I think Seporah will do well there. Or at least I’m really, really hoping this’ll help.

Felicity BTW is being seen by a Speech therapist. The therapist taught us a few tricks and now she exploded with words. I think the main issue is she mimics Seporah who use to scream a lot to get what she wanted.