My son changed my life. My son touched my soul. I am a life in life parent. I was a full time restaurant manager before I had my son. I spent the biggest part of my life wanting children. It was a hard conception. I almost lost my son. He was a late in life child. I always knew something was wrong when he was a baby. He was a hard baby to get to sleep. He didn't talk for quite a while. I finally took him to speech therapy. I thought the problem was genetic. I had a speech defect when I was little. I can still remember the people telling me, he would come out of it.
The speech therapist referred me to an autistic evaluation. It couldn't be my son. No, they were wrong. The evaluation team decided that he was undetermined. He was only two. I took him to PreK. The teacher took one look at Zane spending around the room. She knew that he needed an aid. Well, guess what, that unpaid aide was me. I know now that I should have got paid for it. I can still remember the sped teacher telling me she thought he was autistic. I could have smack her. I can still recall the administrator who dressed inappropriately telling me that he could never live alone. I can remember the joy I received each day by working with the kids. My son changed my life in several ways. I am now finishing getting my teaching degree.
Hendrix, OK
