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Today my boy turns 5!

This was an easy year, only one surgery.

He started talking a good bit more, he started forming simple sentences, and his congative abilities are out standing.

He is the sweetest boy, loves the same toys as last year, and the year before that. He is extremely consistent.

This year has been a good year, his abilities have grown, so have his sensitivities.

Having a child on the high functioning part of autism is difficult. We have a really good week, a week where you become lifted up and forget all the bad weeks. Then something happens, rain pours from the sky and puts out that little flame of hope.

With school starting soon, I pray for good weeks, but I also pray for the off weeks. This sounds bad, but when your child is high functioning you have to have proof that he has autism. I want his teachers to see what I see, to see that he isn’t just quite, that he isn’t just a sweet boy. I know how hard he works, I know how smart he is, but my greatest fear is loosing services because they don’t see.

This year we didn’t have a huge birthday party like years past. We could have had one, but I will not risk it, I will not risk my family’s health for a few extra gifts. So we had a small party, he got to open gifts, and blow out his candles. We celebrated, we ate cake, and we played with new toys.

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