Feelings

I know that most Aspie kids do not like to be touched and draw away from physical contact. This has never applied to either of my Aspie sons. A physical therapist once told me that was because at a very young age, I made it routine to use "baby massage" after each bath. It kinda broke through the barrier of physical contact. Unfortunately, we are no longer seeing the physical therapist as insurance will not cover any of it. We learned so much from her! My middle son still asks when we will be returning to physical therapy. How we started going to physical therapy is an interesting story. I was shopping with son #2 when I noticed that he had a fingertip that was the size of a ping pong ball! He had pulled a quick and it had become infected. The frightening thing is that he sat perfectly still while I lanced the abscess, soaked his finger in peroxide and squeezed out the puss. He just DID NOT FELL IT! We knew that something was wrong so we took another trip to the doctor's office. That eventually led to physical therapy. After a time, he went through a period of  tactile over-sensitivity, but eventually he was able to appropriately "feel". If only emotional sensitivity were that easy to work through.

We also learned from the physical therapist that many Aspie kids are clumsy. We already knew that about our sons.... She told us that instead of being supported by their skeletal structure, they are suspended from their skeleton via ligaments. They actually rest on these ligaments.

Finally, we learned that Aspie kids brains develop so quickly, they can skip certain levels of development and must go back and learn those things with their bodies. This just further proves to me that Aspie kids are not "disabled"... they have "different abilities". And as we skew their square pegs to match society's round holes, it is my hope that they will gain "normal" abilities, yet hold fast to their special abilities.
What an abundent gift!