Autism is not a sentence

5 years of treatment with doctors, a lot of tests, and such a long-awaited result, "You are pregnant." All 9 months everything was fine, mommy gave birth herself and on time. "Calls" that Timur has developmental delays were from the very beginning, but since he is the firstborn, my mother took everything as character traits, and did not attach any importance to it. The pediatrician did not see any problems, the fact that the child gave up GW in a month, that he did not fall asleep without motion sickness, that there was no divided attention, did not respond to a name, did not know how to crawl, there was no interest in food, choked on a small piece, did not chew solid food, etc. etc.

The very peak of "withdrawal" into oneself fell by 1.5 years, tantrums worsened, due to lack of speech, aggression, fear of water, bright light and loud sounds, crowds of people, there was a desire to be alone, it reached the point that the child left the room when there someone came in. At the age of 2, the baby was seen by a psychiatrist, and with 5 minutes of communication and observation of Timur, the diagnosis "Autism" and the code F.84.0, at that time the mother did not even understand the meaning of this word. When my mother came home, she started looking for information, and she learned that autism cannot be cured, it’s forever, and at that moment her world collapsed.

From that moment on, life was divided into "Before" and "After", the child's father could not bear all the delights of such a life, and left the family. Almost immediately, my mother accepted Timur's characteristics, realizing that he would always be different from his peers. At the age of 5, he does not know how to play and communicate with children, walks in diapers, does not understand the speech addressed, does not bite or chew solid food, self-service skills are at 0.

For the third year already, my mother has been trying to rehabilitate herself, teach elementary self-service skills, but all this needs to be done with specialists and costs a lot of money. The ex-husband does not communicate with the child and does not help financially, the grandmother is a pensioner and there is no one else to help. I ask everyone who has the opportunity to support this family, only daily classes in the center will give Timur a chance for a happy childhood and future, and mom will hear such a long-awaited word "MАM".