July 4th is Independence Day here in the United States. It is also Israeli Girl's birthday. My husband's relationship with Israeli Girl was his bottom: it was what finally caused him to admit his sexual behavior was out of control, that he was an addict. I began calling her Israeli Girl contemptuously: while not technically [...]
Posts under ‘speech delay’
Mama, Tell Me What I’m Thinking
When my son was having a hard time learning to speak, I used to wonder if part of the problem was that I was so good at reading his mind. We would be playing, and he would start to cry, and out of nowhere, I would think, "he wants different shoes" or "he wants that [...]
Diagnosis
When my son was two, he wasn't speaking, at least not in the traditional sense. He could make, to a limited extent, the initial sounds of words: "ba" for anything from ball to butterfly or "kah" for anything from car to kitchen. This could have made understanding him confusing, except that he didn't use the [...]
