Questions answered | hippieheart's Blog

So yes, I was just being a super-sensitive, worry-wort of a mom. 

My husband and I took our son to the Pediatrician yesterday with a list of questions and observations a mile long.  We were worried because we have never met another child like our son.  Whereas the observations we had made of his habits and preferences seemed like strengths to us, we were beginning to worry that they were highly unusual, to the point of maybe being signs of something wrong.  Like I said ~ we've never seen another child that does the things that ours does.  He is not the typical two year old.  Of course I have to laugh at myself today because, of all people, why would I ever think to worry about someone NOT fitting the mold and not being like everyone else?      

The Pediatrician relieved our anxieties and pointed out that our son had extraordinary strengths which did set him apart, but that shouldn't be viewed as anything more than positive and ~ just that ~ extraordinary.  Namely he is highly analytical, has an amazing vocabulary and studies his environment with a great awareness of all things around him.  He probably notices things most of us never will.  Amen to that.          

So today I am relieved and proud and happy and excited.  All of the strengths and amazing abilities that our son possesses and exhibits will be celebrated, once again, for what they are.  He is different.  In very good ways. 

She said he's probably more intelligent than all of us (referring to my husband and I and herself).  That is, indeed, very promising...

My husband and I were joking around last night.  My husband asked our son if he wanted to maybe be the President one day.  I piped in and said, "Oh, he wants to shoot higher than that!"   I told my husband that, when he receives his Nobel prize in physics or some environmental spectrum, that we will look back at this time and laugh.  And that will be the story we share with the media: He was so brilliant at such an early age, and so unlike any child we had ever met, that we actually took him to the doctor, at age two, thinking there was something wrong with him !