{"id":2092,"date":"2013-04-04T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2013-04-04T17:54:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:54:56","slug":"autism-repost-1-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2092","title":{"rendered":"Autism Repost #1: Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally posted February 15, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Milestone<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_4532.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1586 alignleft\" title=\"IMG_4532\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_4532-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_4532-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_4532-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We wrote with black marker on the skin of your chest.<\/p>\n<p>Letters of your name:<\/p>\n<p>first, last.<\/p>\n<p>Underneath, our home phone number.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your first trip alone without parent or aide,<\/p>\n<p>A beautiful, distracted, autistic first-grader.<\/p>\n<p>After you left,<\/p>\n<p>We unsuccessfully throttled our panic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Time has wheeled by, between that day and this.<\/p>\n<p>Years filled with laughter &#8212; frustrations, too.<\/p>\n<p>Days of \u00a0learning about hearts and brains:<\/p>\n<p>yours, ours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, you paused on the high school&#8217;s steps.<\/p>\n<p>Stopped to wave, gave a little smile, and then you were gone.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the shadow of your six year-old smile and your six-foot-frame.<\/p>\n<p>My moment of unbridled happiness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted February 15, 2012. &nbsp; Milestone &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We wrote with black marker on the skin of your chest. Letters of your name: first, last. Underneath, our home phone number. &nbsp; Your first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2092\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}