My daughter has severe brain damage. She was very sick when she was a baby and almost died.
We decided we didn’t want to know whether or not she had brain damage when she was a baby. We decided to treat her normally, and then if there was a problem we would get an MRI.
Well, she sat up on time, walked on time, ran on time, but she didn’t talk on time. The doctor’s thought she didn’t have brain damage because she was doing okay in every area, except speech.
When she was 3, we did an MRI and it showed lots of brain damage. The doctors were surprised that she could walk and run. They said they would think she should be in a wheelchair and severely disabled.
Now at 11, she is extremely gifted in math, can read/write, and is doing extremely well. She does have problems with speech still, and she was just diagnosed with a seizure disorder. However, she is a great kid!!!!!!!
Doctor’s don’t always know the possibilties of how a child will turn out.
My husband and I also think my daughter’s disability has given her things. She is an extremely hard worker, and she is very goal oriented. (Grant it, I wish she had a normal brain, but I can still look at the positives of her situation.)
This is just a sad article.
The world needs more people like you and your husband.
You treated her normally....she responded as normally as she could. I wonder if she would have had the same results if she had been treated as handicapped and not challenged.