Tuckerman

Tucker is my most amazing 3 yr old son. He is my first child and so I feel a deep love for him and all the sweet love he brings to my life. Tucker was a normally developing child so I thought when he was first born. He developed like most kids. He flip over on time, sat up on time, and started to crawl on time. He walked a little later at 15 months but it was still nothing to worry about so they said. He began to babble at the right time and stated to use his first words at a round 1 yrs old. So for me as a first time mother I was so proud of my son. Then around 18 months he just stop gaining any more words. I also started to notice that he stopped making eye contact. I didn't think much about it because I thought and was told he is just a boy they speak late. So at 2 yr old when he still only had about 10 word and about 10 signs I thought I better see if he may need speech therapy. So we called our local ECI program here and got him evaluated and started to get OT and SPL service. Still at that point I had no idea that my son was Autistic. About 9 months after we started to see the OT and ST we went to a pediatric developmental specialist to have him evaluated to see what was wrong and to see what we need to have done. I thought there was no way he could be autistic all the little things he does were just Tucker. Well, that was one of the most hopeless nights of my life when we were told that are sweet baby was on the autism spectrum and had PDD-NOS. I think it took about 3 months to sink in and for me to really start to look into this epidemic called Autism. There have already been many people say there is nothing to be done for him he will always be autistic and weired. Well to those people I say "when HELL Freezes over that will be true" but for me I will recover my son and he will be a handsome, wonderfully bright young man that can and will be anything he wants to be. So for those willing to take this life changing journey with me I welcome you to read and follow along with me and my sons ups and down on this roller coaster of autism.