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I feel for you.

Caitlin used to scream. Made for WONDERFUL gettogethers with the in-laws, let me tell you.

And people will say "discipline problem" or "it's the mother's fault".

I tell people to think of Caitlin as an "English as a Second Language " person, because it really Is a language problem.

It helps.

Thanks for the info. That seems so much like my son. He even has to think a moment on what you say before he reacts--it reminds me so much of someone who knew English as a second language and had to process the English in their native tongue in their heads before they could understand it.
My son is only 4, but you can tell him to open the curtains and even though he's done it and heard it a thousand times, there will be a pause before he does it.

I've also realized he is a strong visual learner. It is how he learned to open the curtains. He could know every word, but unless you show him once or twice the action with the words, he won't get it.
Thanks for the thoughts. I just hope it gets better and I am praying that the son I am expecting in a couple of months does not have to deal with the same issues.

My son uses a single head switch to activate a communication system to communicate to society.

At home we use eye gaze and body gestures if he has an emergency he blows with all his might via the trach and it quacks like a duck. LOL

Now that he is an adult male he doesn't communicate much with me on details just like a man. Unless it is of extreme interest to him.

Lucky for him I enjoy being a domesticate. Oh I guess a today's woman would call me an uneducated servant. LOL