Myth or Fact

I saw him for the first time as my eyes clicked the first most Amazing picture of my life but my eyes were closed immediately due to unusual pain in my abdomen as I just delivered him to this World. Within my closed eyes I was enjoying the beautiful picture of my Baby.

 The one for whom I was waiting to see from past nine months. As a team of doctors were trying hard to bring me back I was in my own world trying to get up from the bed and hug my little one. 

Soon days, months and years passed we were watching his every step of life. Out of anxiety we missed to find some of the facts that is very important for parents to observe in their child that he was different from other kids of his age. I had some doubt in mind when I see his aggressive behaviour or hyperactivity at some times. When he didn't start uttering his first word at the age of 3 we checked with his Doctor but she responded that he is a boy and generally boys take more time to grow. It was very late to understand that it was just a Myth. Whether a boy or a girl if there are no sign of growth development at right age we need to give early intervention to help the kid grow. Time passed away and it was his age to join in school where we realised that he is not socially adjustable with other kids and teachers and also unable to communicate. Even teachers developed a myth in us that few kids will delay in adjusting. People may speak many things around us but we are the decision makers for our kids at their early age. With lots of pain we understood the fact that He has Autism spectrum. Early intervention was the only solution for this condition for a kid but we have already crossed the right age for the effectiveness. We were direction less and didn't know where to go. Doctors also did not guide us at the right time. We approached a pediatric therapy centre where we were asked to bring him for Speech and Occupational therapy but the Psychiatrist told me that it will be effective only if I will be with him all the time. We belong to a middle class family where both of us need to earn our livelihood. His therapies are even more expensive than anything. At that point of time I could not leave my job. Relatives and friends started advicing that he will be fine after few years. Years after that when I realised that he needs great help in connecting himself with society and the fact is that he needs his Mother all the time with him only then he will respond to worldly things. I decided to leave my career and be with him all the time. I did not leave faith in God I can see some changes in him some times a kind of development which I assume are showers of blessing from God as a result of our Hardship. Years passing by He is 6 years old and our efforts are still on.