Abbie was born a healthy bald headed , blue eyed baby girl . She stole my heart the first moment I looked in her eyes . She turned over on time . She didn't set up until she was almost 7 months old .She didn't walk until she was 18 months old . Around age 2 I noticed she was different . She would bang her head on things and have extreme fits of anger . Me not knowing what was wrong with her I just thought she had a terrible case of the terrible twos. She couldn't talk very well . She would point instead . I took her to the doctor and was told nothing was wrong with her , but in my heart I knew something wasn't right . One day when she was 3 I took her to the park and there was another little girl there about the same age . It was then that i saw that she didnt know how to play with her and she was interested in her , Abbie wasn't diagnosed until the age of 4 . We where told that she wouldn't amount to anything in her life . This alone broke my heart . I cried and blamed myself . Then I realized that my child was still the same child with a diagnoses . Abbie went to public school for 4 years where she slipped through the cracks . She wasn't learning anything . My child couldn't read nor write . We pulled her out of public school after she was being abused and mistreated . She is now home schooled and she has progressed in many ways. She is very smart , she reads and writes . Her vocabulary is huge . She is learning so much . Not only is she smart she also has a huge heart . Her love for her family and her friends is unconditional . She loves with her whole heart .

Anonymous
Gastonia, NC