I may have mentioned this before, but I have CRS disease and I don't want to dig through the archives to check. My son didn't start talking until he was five years old. When he entered the first grade of school, he was having problems so we had him checked out completely. We checked his vision, his hearing and other things I don't remember. We then had him mentally evaluated. He was diagnosed with a "learning disability". This used to be referred to as "retarded" but that was never an accurate description or reason for learning disabilities. All through his early years of school, he had special classes because it wasn't that he couldn't learn, it was that he learned differently. Gradually, the special classes were phased out as he caught up with his peers when he was in high school. Now, he's passing college courses. Special education wasn't the only contributing factor to his success. His loving parents had a lot to do with it.

Since Jonathan graduated from high school, he talks to me every single day, sometimes for hours. I think he's making up for all the years where he didn't talk at all or very much. So… we started out not being able to get him to talk and now I can't get him to shut up. If you wonder sometimes why my articles are delayed, this is one of the reasons. It's not a bad thing, of course, but it disrupts other things that I need to get done. If he wasn't going to college during the day now, I wouldn't have any time to think.

From one extreme to another, that's the story of my life so far.