After 8 years, my biggest dream came true today.
I did not catch it right away, like the delay when you order your special taco without onions at the drive through. You don’t completely trust the outcome, or that anyone heard you correctly, yet you are still eager to eat. You open the wrapper, and if it is correct, a moment of pure glee happens as you realize someone actually heard you and completed your request. so you dive in. You begin your anticipated meal, grateful that your needs were met.
Today we received the results of all the specialized testing Brian received with the Swain Center. It was not like he had been through this 7 times before to a lesser degree in the school system, with results I would not accept, which often left me appearing as an insane bitch.
I will say my x husband is great at handling me when it looks like my redheaded side might kill. This possibly is very true about me, until today.
Brian’s results came back from the Swain Center, results that revealed suspicions I had for many years - that my x husband ignored through years of bitching about my feeling that Brian was brilliant in a different way , an Einstein way. Brian has APD , Auditory Processing Disorder. It has taken 5 years of research and stubbornness to finally obtain the answers I have been so desperately seeking for Brian.
No drugs. I want to personally kill everyone who advised that Brian needed drugs. Yet no one could explain to me why Brian was brilliant in math and struggled with writing. Wouldn’t ADD cause problems in every area? Nothing I previously heard described my Brian, until today.
And today my x husband finally got what I had been saying for all these years...
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/auditory.asp
Now, Brian will get specialized training...
http://www.theswaincenter.com/
Chalk one up for Saint Jude.
C
