Thoughts During Autism Acceptance Month.
Today I am thinking about how Lulu is showing her "typical" side to us, little by little.
We work very hard at teaching her various interpersonal skills, and her most recently acquired one is nodding her head to say "yes." That happened today, and her dad and I jumped all over that skill.
I still try to stress that she say things like, "stop it, Annie!" and "get off of me," and other things like that. Sometimes she needs prompting, but there have been a few times lately where she's spontaneously told Annie to get off of her.
These are skills that have been worked on for years. Sometimes when you work on something that seems so minor with seemingly little headway, you can become discouraged. But the moral to this story, for me anyway, is that you have to keep trying. You never know what is going to "stick" and/or when it will happen. Every little milestone means so much, and they are not to be taken for granted.
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