Today as I drove my Little’s to school I started to cry.
It wasn’t a sad cry, no, far from it.
My oldest, who has childhood apraxia, was playing “eye spy” in the back seat as we bumped along the road. We had called out everything that was in our sight, living in the country there’s really only a few things that we can see. So I decided to get creative.
I called out green, and he named everything green even though he knew those things had already been named.
Finally after the last guess of me saying, “nope that’s not it!” With a huge smile, he says, “then what?!”
I paused, thinking he is going to laugh when I tell him.
“Dinosaurs, silly.” I say, holding back a laugh.
His response is what made me tear up.
“No mom, dinosaurs aren’t just green. They are green and yellow, and black and scaly. Some can fly and some can’t” Now, mind you, he didn’t say every one of those words because of his apraxia he only can say a few words, but this is what he meant.
I cried because although his apraxia limits his speech, his mind is not limited.
I cried because although he can see the differences in each dinosaur, he doesn’t care. He loves them all the same.
I cried because although we were talking about dinosaurs I know that he feels the same about people. He knows everyone in this world has differences that make them unique. Whether it is because of what they look like or what they can do, but it doesn’t matter.
None of our differences matter to him, because his love doesn’t stop at color or ability, it doesn’t stop at age or gender, because even with those differences, we are all the same.
We all are humans, we all have beating hearts and breath we take in to live.
Yes, he can see the differences but our differences, to him, make us all the same.
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Raw with emotion and it shows you the limitless love between a mother and her child. Well done!
That is absolute and pure innocence with such a clean heart! Many people lose this trait very early on, but I can tell that your son will always remain a good human.
This is so sweet.