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From Autism To Late Bloomer.
Submitted by: Gabriella L.
IsraelActress, Singer, Director of Dubbing.
My son was about 2.5 years old when he started to show signs of Autism.
My husband and I were in denial for 6 months until it became too noticeable to deny.
Doctors and therapists all gave gloomy and severe predictions that we shouldn’t be hopeful that our son would ever show he loved us.
We were devastated.
This was 16 years ago.
I believed in my heart that my son was going through a phase, that he was in a tunnel that he just needed to be pulled out, or to be coaxed out of. I saw him as beautiful and perfect and I kept saying these words in my heart.
I also told my husband to look at him with love, for I felt he was sensitive to how we looked at him, and if we looked at him with pity, he would certainly not want to look into that reflecting from our eyes. But to see love being reflected, that is a power that is hard to resist and so I kept on believing.
My son was diagnosed at 3.5 years old with being Autistic.
At the age of 6, he was diagnosed again as being a “Late Bloomer”
He is now 17.5 in one of the most prestigious high schools in the country and is top of his class in all subjects.
He has had one girlfriend and though he has his perks, he is perfectly healthy. Looking back it seems like a strange foggy dream.