For such a long time we thought Teddie having a photographic/eidetic memory was a brilliant rare thing, however, now we're not so sure.
There's a real misconception about what it is to have this superpower, as we like to call it. It goes so much deeper than just remembering facts, events or sports teams. For us, every single thing that comes out of anyone's mouth will be stored and remembered, every date & time, weeks, months and years ahead of time will be remembered. Teddie can tell you everyone's house number and the colour of their door, even ones who he hasn't been to in an over a year. Books can be recited front to back with the author and illustrator named.
Faces will be remembered and their emotions attach to them, which has caused real problems for us as there are many people Teddie just can't see due to their facial expressions.
When we see people taking to Teddie I have real fear that something will be said and we’ll have to uphold whatever is being offered🤦♀️ Visuals have always been everything for Teddie, altho he doesn't rely on them for communication anymore it's become part of his life and he’d be lost without them.
From the second Teddie's wakes up he is wanting to learn and take on new academic information, his teacher and I both agreed this must be so mentally tiring for him. At school he has to have more movement breaks then everyone else so he can just switch off.
Teddie is back to ridiculously large number formations, numbers we didn't even know were real.
Teddie is always very happy go lucky but I wish he'd just switched off and give himself a break!
FYI, never play pairs with Teddie 🤦♀️
I've been poorly all weekend, high fever, sickness and an awfully sore throat, feeling slightly better today.
I'm not entirely sure how I managed to get myself to school on Friday to pick Teddie up but I did then flaked the minute Harvey walked in the door from college (old enough to look after his brother)
Whenever my fever gets too high I'm sick, not sure why but it does help cool me down, however, this makes Teddie extremely scared!! He's been very up and down all weekend which made me realise how much easier things have got with how we do things for Teddie. The adjustment we made many years ago has really paid off we do things without even thinking of now, they r part of our ”normal” day. It's only till this weekend that he's become fractious because everything has changed 😢
For us, I am the glue that keeps us together, when I'm down the whole house goes down, more so for Teddie.
This morning Teddie asked if I was gonna burn his hand with my face (my temperature 🤒 ) He was very pleased to hear I was feeling better so what a better way to celebrate then a quick measure up of the lounge 🤦♀️🤕
#mumdown
#routineiseverything
#adjustments
#asd
