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Uplifting Stories
Hello everyone,
My niece and her husband have four children. Their first
child was a healthy baby girl. Then about four years later they had a healthy
baby boy, so they thought. As time went on my niece started having concerns about
how her son acted at age three comparing him to the other small children within
our family around the same age. We all just kind of blew it off, but she had
that mother instinct to know something was different. Time went on and he
started pre-k, and they labeled him with a behavior problem. She even asked his
teachers for information on how to have him tested, but they said she just
needed to help him have better self-control. As all this was going on my niece
was going on the internet putting in the different things her son was doing and
re-acting to different situations. What she found was unreal to her, but at the
same time made some sense as well. Then by the time he was enrolled in
kindergarten she asked if she could speak with someone about her child before
he started school. They agreed and this led her to the school social worker. My
niece explained her concern and asked if he could be tested for Autism. She told
the social worker that the only information she knew about autism was what she had
found online and it seem to fit her son. The social worker asked if she had
talked with her doctor. My niece said yes, but the doctor at that time said her
son needed to be around four or five to be tested, and he was only three. The
doctor said they would also need more information from someone like a
professional or teacher observation to compare information. The school said
they would observe him for the first six to eight weeks and then hold a meeting
on what they thought. After all the waiting, observing, and doctor visits, my
niece finally had her answer, her son was diagnose with some forms of autism. By
this time it was around mid-winter and he had been placed in a different
classroom and did an awesome job in school. However through all this my niece,
and her husband had another child which was a girl and everything was good. But
later they had another boy and he too way diagnose with autism at the age of
three because this time the doctor did not wait to test him because of the research
my niece had done online.
But the moral of this true story is that through
research on the internet my niece found some symptom’s that favored her son temperament
and she would not give up on realizing that something was different even though
she did not know what. Moreover both boys are doing great thanks to the determination
of their mother not giving up, and online research leading her to a real condition
with her son’s.
