You!

Summer is so over. Everyone is back to their hurry, rush-rush "me first" mode. Driving is once again perilous. Pedestrians are impatient.  Such a insignificant attitude change makes a huge impact on our life. Sure, our 15-minute drive to the sensory gym is up to 30 plus. No issue there, we adjust plans for the extra travel time.  I wish other things were so easy.  I hate seeing fellow parents double park on both sides of the street - hindering and endangering traffic - just to get their kids to school. Meanwhile, a grandma dropping her non-ambulatory charge off at the therapists gets insults and rude gestures hurled her way. People texting while walking, or a group spread out three abreast across the sidewalk, get noticeably annoyed at James who can be slow and definitely stops to smell the roses.  Or the family, sadly parents included,  who stare agape at James (who is not pleased he has to stand in line), like he is a zoo animal. So, my kid has three heads?   At least he waves hello to your rude (and unresponsive) daughters.  I used to be jealous of "normal" families.  Okay, I still get envious that my son just can't join the neighborhood sports team or go to the school on the corner. But GEEZE, I am so lucky.  James is miles ahead of many adults here when it comes to kindness and basic manners. As Qui Gon Jin said in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."  Who said George Lucas couldn't write dialogue?!