When
R was a little, he had a onesie with a sign “If only they would stay little”.
This is something that most mothers say.
Little
was I to know how much he would like staying little and, if I am to be honest, how much we would enjoy this childhood
unfolding in slow motion
At 9,
he has still retain such sweet innocent charm – that people often mistake him
for a much younger child
My
sister, on skype, will ask him to “fulfill all his baby jobs and give her flying kisses”,
a nurse will giggle indulgently when she sees that R cannot blow his nose, someone
will bump into him at the gym and instead of saying “Excuse me” they will give
him a hug instead.
People coo at him, instead of talk to him. He gets more
spontaneous hugs and kisses than any 9 year old I know.
In fact , DH is probably the only one, in all of R's world that pushes him to act his age.
Many
articles that adult auties write about things they wish we knew about them says
how much they hated being “infantilized”.
But
R LOVES being baby - in his self-concept- he sees himself as a small child. And he likes it that way
The other day he told me that he was a
toddler.
Most
neurotypicals have the peer pressure/natural incentive to start become more
independent.
I remember my niece was barely talking and all
she wanted to do was do things by herself, when she stopped wanting to be in
our laps.
But it’s
time to gently nudge him along on this journey.
To
nudge myself along as well.
For
its not just that I enjoy my sweet child so very much, it’s also that he was so
ill for so long.
It’s
made me want to be an armor around him – so defenseless and fragile he seems to
me.
But that crisis has become part of our normal and we are no longer in that day-to -day mindset of urgency
Its
time for this baby and this baby-mama to grow up
Floortime lite mama writes about love, life and autism at www.floortimelitemama.com
I can't tell you how much I identified with this. My 'baby' is fifteen but looks and acts somewhere in the eight to ten year old range. Strangers will let him get away with so much, babying him, even family truth be told. My DH as well is the tough one. He's NOT a baby but he sucks it up...loves the attention while his typically functioning twin gets ignored. Somethings gotta give.
ReplyDeleteAhh our two "little" ones are cut from the same cloth :-)
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