Every once in a while a little bit of hope, or a surprise will pop out at the most unexpected times. With Cully we have seen this on a few occasions. When non verbal children decided to speak to him. When One day recently out of the blue Cully structured multiple sentences together and decided to continue doing so from that day forward..... You get the point...
This week Cully Gage lost his grandfather. On the day of his funeral we stepped into the church and Cully wandered up to his Gandpa in his casket. He put his hands in his pockets and looked at grandpa for a moment. He took one hand out of his pocket and placed it on grandpas hands and patted them for a while. He looked at mum and sniffled and motioned for she and I to come up with him, We stood by for a moment before he walked away and returned several times again.
For a while he showed emotions and compassion. Later that night he asked why grandpa died and even offered his ideas on how he might "wake grandpa up" showing me how he would shake him with his hands. While playing he pulled a pillow up onto his lap, placed his elbos on it, chin in his hands and pouted. I asked "whats wrong Mr G" and he said "your grandpa die died" with pouting lips. We talked for a moment about how Grandpa was my Daddy and that it was his time...
The emotions and thoughts are in there. They find there own way out every now and then.
As a foot note. My father left me with the gift of donations at his funeral to be directed to the Autism Society. How sweet is that?
Thank you and I miss you Daddy.
