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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 419008" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks JJJ.</p><p>I think for me there is an opportunity here to view things with a different eye, to try to move beyond rigid social norms to see something wider and more loving underneath... What I mean is this... sometimes J's behaviour (and I guess that of children "like him", whoever they are!) is annoying and innapropriate but sometimes it is just him giving expression to the great energy and joie de vivre that lies within him... at the airport, for example, he gave a moment of playfulness and laughter to some people; at the circus, as well as the people looking at him oddly, I also saw one woman looking at him with a kind of admiring delight on her face. He was the very incarnation of childlike joy and exuberance... slightly larger than life... but, as long as he expresses himself within certain limits, he does have the "right" to be as he is and he can feel a sense of celebration about that... he is not just a "problem"!! My task is to be able to have the courage and love to see that also, not be afraid all the time of What Others Will Think... in this sense, he is a gift to me also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 419008, member: 11227"] Thanks JJJ. I think for me there is an opportunity here to view things with a different eye, to try to move beyond rigid social norms to see something wider and more loving underneath... What I mean is this... sometimes J's behaviour (and I guess that of children "like him", whoever they are!) is annoying and innapropriate but sometimes it is just him giving expression to the great energy and joie de vivre that lies within him... at the airport, for example, he gave a moment of playfulness and laughter to some people; at the circus, as well as the people looking at him oddly, I also saw one woman looking at him with a kind of admiring delight on her face. He was the very incarnation of childlike joy and exuberance... slightly larger than life... but, as long as he expresses himself within certain limits, he does have the "right" to be as he is and he can feel a sense of celebration about that... he is not just a "problem"!! My task is to be able to have the courage and love to see that also, not be afraid all the time of What Others Will Think... in this sense, he is a gift to me also. [/QUOTE]
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