The first conferences of August were the best gift!!!

My first conferences for August were the best gift I could have had!

A miracle.

The miracle that goes by the name of Dionysis.

He is 14 years old. Hardly anyone knows the timbre of his voice.

He's been dubbed a non-verbal autistic, severely handicapped...

He is in my waiting room and the mother is in the room across the hall. They are separated by a hallway and a door.

I come and go.

Now I'm in the room where the mother is.

A few months ago she was vertical:

"Dionysus NEVER takes the initiative! He may be starving and won't let you open the cookie that's in front of him..."

"Dionysus..." I said, "can do anything."

And of course he can shout "

"--mom-".

"Then why doesn't he call me?" She asks me and the hairs of her hair hang from my lips.

"Dionysus can tell us better!"

I reply and pause, turning my head down the hallway.

I don't see him.

…

«Aaaa eeee iiiiii!»

We both hear from the other room.

It was a word that came out of Dionysus' mouth.

He called me "Vangelis!"

And he goes on:

«Eeeaa!»

(Ela)=come on

I'm fighting.

He even says another phrase with a strong "thth". Which, though inaudible, reaches his mother's ears. -The distance from one room to the other is visibly remarkable.

I turn back to the mother and point out two things: -the first question-

"How much brainwashing have you parents been given?

How much of a brainwashing have they done to you, Mother, to get to the point just a few months ago where you were insisting, adamantly, that your child could not take any initiative and now you hear him taking the initiative to verbally call me from the other room.

The one you introduced me to absolutely non-verbal?"

And the second:

"Also, you understand that he can't possibly be able to call my name and not call you 'Mommy'.

Mother shakes her head in dismay.

"And yet it can be done, Vangelis! It can. My son knows you can understand him.............."

So.

I waved goodbye to them, speechless.

I didn't expect to hear that answer.

I insist!

Mother and Father down the road will understand better than any therapist!

And by me!

Yes.

I didn't tell her.

See you in September then...

Have a nice rest of August!

And... happy and blessed is the feast of the Virgin Mary, the Blessed Virgin Mary that all Christians look forward to with Faith and Reverence!