Where Every Scroll is a New Adventure
You can become a child’s hero in surprising ways…
While I was waiting for names to be called at Parent Pick up, a little boy named Dell dropped the shiny silver bead he had found.
He became really upset…
It was going to be yet another surprise gift for his mom! Dell usually tends to pick her (and his teachers) flowers and draw pictures full of hearts. So when he lost his bead Dell began to panic and crawl around on the floor.
I make beaded jewelry for fun…
It took me 3 seconds to find what he was looking for. I picked it up and gave it to him…
I got the biggest smile…
And since that day, I’ve gotten a couple of hugs as well…
Erase the stigma and ignore inaccurate depictions in the media. I’ve said it a couple of times now.
The sweetest boys have Autism!
In teaching there are sometimes life changing moments…
One such moment for me was when I first got sucked into teaching ESL.
Another such moment was when I sat in on an ESL kindergarten class…
I met my first little autistic student.
He was non-verbal and hated colors and loud noises.
His fixation was a car…but it was also me…oddly enough.
Direct eye contact and then a hug…
His teacher discouraged it… It was my first day there and she did not know me.
But I did not mind the hug…
From then on, every time he saw me, he’d rush over to hug me or show me something he worked on in class…
This is how I decided that my next Master’s degree will be in Special Education, one sweet boy who changed my life…