Posted on 07/17/2008 8:35:57 AM PDT by neverdem
I think there is different kinds of intellegent. My late talker is the one who is extremely gifted musically and can remember lyrics to musicals so much that it’s uncanny. You should hear her sing every song to Cats and she is six. She is also reading music. But she struggles with reading words. Either that or she just isn’t interested.
Thank God there are different kinds of smart. We can’t all be the musicians, scientists, authors, etc... It takes all of us.
Sounds like every classmate I had in Engineering at college.
A friend of mine was like that. In grade school, all the teachers labeled him as dumb. Now he mangaged a plant that builds fire trucks that he designs.
What got him started was he fell in love with something (fire appratus) and tried to learn everything about them at his job. That drove him to over come his reading issues. Another good thing was I kept giving him fantasy novels. He loved the stories so much he forced himself to read them.
Now he is working with his kids to make sure they don’t get labeled as stupid for similar problems.
You are so right. It is funny how validated I feel when I talk to other parents of 'Late Talkers'. All the late talkers I am familiar with are quirky but super cool. All of my children amaze me and each one of them has their own idiosyncrasies. I have a Late Talker, a Slow Reader, and a Mustard Eater. The Mustard Eater is the girl. She spent her toddler years eating bowls of mustard and drinking vinegar. She used to ask for "Tobacco Sauce" to spice up her meal. I can't wait to have grandchildren. The kids were so darn great.
Sometimes it is, no doubt.
Oh we have a butter eater. She would order waffles at restaurants to eat the little packets of butter that came with them. We didn’t figure that out for a while. Then I would catch her with a spoon full of butter. So weird what they like.
Got a grandbaby coming in August. Our youngest is six and it’s going to be like having another kid of our own I think.
I wonder if that behavior is an attempt to consume some vital, missing nutrient in her diet. One of the possible causes of autism is a genetically inherited "leaky gut". Children with a leaky gut can process in casein in cow's milk into peptides that mimic opium type substances. The peptides depress the brain AND cause a physical addition. The leaky gut can also pass other bovine proteins into the blood stream that trigger an immune response. That response often attacks the insulin producing cells and leaves the child a type 1 diabetic by around age 5. The narcotic suppression caused by the casein peptides can generally be reversed within 3 days of witholding any milk products. The individual will go through a withdrawal over the 3 day period, but then improves significantly. It's a simple, inexpensive option to try.
Some additional reading here on mustard as a stimulant of PLA2 enzymes. The article also promotes low carb diets to limit stimulation of insulin as it as stimulates PLA2.
This one did.
She is now a very healthy 21 year old. I am sure you are correct about our body telling us what we need. We just preferred to think of it as her quirky thing. She looks like a hippie but since she is conservative she prefers to call herself a "thinker". Here she is getting ready to send in her vote for Mitt on Super Tuesday. 
We all have our humanity in common but it is these butter eating little quirks that makes us as different as snowflakes. Congratulations on becoming a grandparent. I admit to being envious. Our middle child will be the first one to make it down the alter. He is getting married at a lifeguard station on the beach in a couple of weeks. I'm hoping they will have a child in the next year or two. He likes telling people, "We're weirdos; we're getting married, then having a baby."
That is sweet though! I wish our son had went about in that order. Actually, they were engaged and had the date for May of this year. She got pregnant in November, but kept the date for May since they didn’t find out until January. She had a little belly, but it’s ok. It’s not like he’s got a Baby Mama. Although I’m trying my best to get along with her. Really, I am. She could be worse I guess. At least she makes sure he’s in church every Sunday. That is a good thing!
Your grandbaby will be here soon, I’m sure. I don’t know how to love a grandbaby though. Doesn’t that sound crazy? On one hand I am loving her and buying everything in the book for her. I didn’t know how to love a baby until I had mine, but to love something so intensely as I hear others say, from someone else’s body. I’m sure it will all fall away once I lay eyes on her, but I am nervous to be honest. Is that wierd?
I am very lucky that my son is marrying a girl who I hit it off with right away. I can see why my son fell in love with her. Besides being beautiful and funny and interesting, she is very easy to talk to. I am also a person who is open so potential conflicts of interest are always addressed right away. I am also a firm believer that the wife takes precedence over the family of origin and I'll bet the soon to be wife appreciates that. I am sure you and your daughter-in-law will only get closer once the baby gets here and you have the love of your son and grandchild in common.
Here is my future daughter-in-law. My son is the guy in the hat on the right. They are both very tall, dark and handsome.
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