Finally Becoming Aware of What my Brilliant Son Has Been Trying to Show me for Years
I was crying. Happy tears. Happy tears, mixed with sadness, and an intense desire for the world to see the possibilities beyond the problems associated with an autism diagnosis.
The mother on the podcast was talking about how her autistic son was “mispronouncing” something. When she said to her son – ‘Ok, I can say it that way,’ her son relaxed, and said, ‘Now I know you are willing to have my back Mum’ For the first time, he was being accepted for being different and perceiving the world differently.
He was not wrong or less than. Just different.
It reminded me of so many times when my own son would just go quiet or go to his room. He was trying to get me to see beyond my conclusions and fixed ways of looking at the world, my desire to get things right, even though I mainly felt intensely wrong. He was trying to show me how limited and unintelligent that was.
For so many years, I blinded myself to what he was showing...
Are you making your kids stupid?
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Good school grades in “important” subjects, university degrees, and safe career paths that do not challenge the status quo. All of this is what the majority of us were taught is most desirable, and what we may unthinkingly pass on to our children and make important for them.
The reality is that many geniuses in our world, the people who have shaped and changed the course of history have operated in a very different way. Surely that begs the question….’Is it attaining top grades in formal education that creates these geniuses or should we be asking more questions?
Think of Richard Branson, who is dyslexic, had little formal education, dropping out of school at aged 16, and is now creating hugely. Thomas Edison, The Wright Brothers, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs! Or an example from a different field. Leonardo de Vinci who reportedly was unable to be...
