HFA language delay Re: Cure

[Guest guest]

Select mutism isn't considered to be a language delay? I would chat to my

family and refuse to speak to anyone else as a child. I was not a very

articulate speaker (unlike my extremely verbose son who sounds like a little

professor)

Miranda

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> I somehow have lost the thread to this and was going torespond to

> Roxanna’s comment that if there was a cure for autism shewould go for

> it “in a heartbeat, half a heartbeatâ€.  I totallyagree with Roxanna. 

> We all love our children and we all will say we lovethem as they are. 

> But to say you wouldn’t want them cured of autismif that was possible

> is just as silly as saying you wouldn’t want yourchild cured if they

> had __________ (fill in the blank: diabetes, cancer,deafness,

> blindness, the list could go on and on).  Many of us on thisgroup have

> kids who are older and we have spent years and years on

> therapies,support, medications, and continue to see our kids struggle. 

> So, to sayyou wouldn’t want your child cured is silly (I am trying to

> be nice as Ican think of much more appropriate, though less politically

> correct, language).

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> “Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, thetroublemakers,

> the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see

> thingsdifferently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them,

> disagree withthem, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't

> do is ignore thembecause they change things... they push the human race

> forward, and while somemay see them as the crazy ones, we see genius,

> because the ones who are crazyenough to think that they can change the

> world, are the ones who do.â€Â Â -  Steve Jobs

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> “Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers,

> the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things

> differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them,

> disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you

> can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the

> human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we

> see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they

> can change the world, are the ones who do.â€Â   -  Steve Jobs

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