I guess we're raising them right

This will be short, but I had to share this. We were at the JumpZone the other night for an open play being sponsored by the Autism Society.

Robbie had done something cute, and some woman looks at him and says, "The future of America."

Robbie responded with, "Barack the Vote!", which was a very appropriate phrase based on what she said.

The funny part of this, was that the woman was wearing a McCain-Palin t-shirt!!!

"I'm awesome!"

Robbie had a dentist appointment today. Just a cleaning and a check up. He was a bit scared, though, as the last couple of trips involved getting two cavities filled. We assured him that he wasn't going to get a needle, but he was still apprehensive about laying in the chair. The nurse saw something in his chart and asked what PDDNOS was. We explained to her that meant he had autism. Robbie turned to them and said, "No, I'm AWESOME!"

I look at him now and think back to where he was when we first heard the letters PDDNOS. We had no clue what that meant. When the neurologist said it was part of the autism spectrum, my body went numb. When we did our research, most of it pointed to him probably never talking. Here we are today, and he heard autism, and said "No, I'm awesome."

And he is. He amazes me everyday at what he does and how hard he works. The things that are so simple to us are hard work for him, yet he makes them seem so simple sometimes. Even though his brain doesn't work like ours. He's found a way to get past that to the point where the nurse was surprised to hear that he has autism. Most people are when they meet him.

He is very awesome!