I Am a Mother

We are not fish in a pond. There's an entire world out there, and everyone's uniqueness has a purpose. We cannot fit all of our kids into a box because not all of our kids are the exact same.
People told me my son wasn't normal because he wasn't talking full sentences by age 3. His hearing was fine. He understood what people were saying. He was developmentally fine. After his early childhood education screening at a young three they suggested speech intervention. My son is not a number to be defined by a textbook. I said when he is ready to talk, he will. I kept encouraging him and praised him for using his words.
He just had a lingual frenulectomy done because he was slightly tongue tied, and he is 4 now. He attends daycare that's like a preschool setting and there are no complaints about him.
Society has such a screwed up idea of how things should be. We have forgotten how things have been. The environment, ecosystems, and ourselves. Not everything and everyone must be labeled and classified. It's ridiculous.

This philosophy has been so carried, however, that it now is being applied in ways it really shouldn't. There are some boxes that are supposed to be there. There is nothing wrong with uniqueness or differences and such things should be celebrated within individuals and cultures and accepted and not ridiculed, but only so long as they are not harmful. There should be a box that is taught and taught well, and that is the box of right and everything outside of it is wrong.

And even some things that are not necessarily 'wrong' should not be normalized as they are not healthy or beneficial in the long run.

Since we are individuals the theory of a box is just a common dissolution of acceptance .. ..

Amen. Embrace your inner dork!!!