Hey Guuuurl!

“Hey Guuuurl.” Ross was looking right at her. “Are you wearing sunglasses?”

Ross goofing it up in the playroom!

“No, these are not sunglasses,” the little girl said with confidence, looking right back at Ross. I waited to see if there would be any more exchange and when there wasn’t and Ross was still looking at her, I added, “She needs her glasses to see, Ross, just like Arthur.”

“Glasses to see.” Ross repeated, almost as if to try the phrase on for size…not because he didn’t understand what I said.

I had NEVER ever heard Ross talk this way to anyone before…certainly not to another child. Before the diagnosis, Ross would completely ignore the other kids. Completely. At his Communicatively Handicapped class I only witnessed him saying “hi.” Never had I witnessed him asking a question of another little person. And it wasn’t even a request, which he mastered a LONG time ago. It was a conversation. A CONVERSATION! Well, it wasn’t a long one, but it was a conversation none the less!

I’ve felt for quite some time that we are on the right path with our Son-Rise Program, not sending Ross back to school, our adjustments in diet and supplements. BUT this was proof positive that WE ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK!  A miracle.

And then to top it all off, when my friend Sheila (Ross’s Godmother) came over, Ross ran to the door and exclaimed, “Hey, Auntie Sheila!” Then he ran back to me and said, “Hey, Mom, Auntie Sheila is here!” When Sheila pointed out that Elmo was on his butt, he looked down and giggled. Which, of course, made us all giggle. The last time Sheila came to our house, it was before Son-Rise and Ross would take 20 minutes to warm up to anyone who would come over.  (That reminds me, Sheila…you need to come over more often!)

Like I said, I didn’t need proof, but it’s here, every day, every moment. Ross is changing. I’m changing. The “glasses I see the world with” is changing. The world is saying, “Hey Guuuurl! What glasses are you wearing today?”