Andrea Owen
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442 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2017
last heard Oct 2017
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his sister, who's two years younger than him, she was around two years old.
And I was noticing that her we thought, my husband and I thought that she was just like this genius child.
We thought she
This just amazing like athlete.
You know, she was two.
It will turns out she was normal.
And Kitty, um of course we think she's extra special, but she she was just doing things as normal toddlers do and our son was not.
also I noticed there were some red flags for me, I noticed when I would take them to the park, I would be relieved when there was no one else there.
I kind of I mean, you know, you have that kind of feeling, but I didn't I didn't want it to be true.
But at the same time I knew something was wrong.
And coincidentally, his preschool teacher, we started to have some problems in preschool with the other children and and Colton was having outbursts.
about um, you know, things not going his way or or kids playing with things that he always wanted to play with.
And his preschool teacher happened to be a retired special education teacher.
And I'll never forget the day she called me.
I was standing at the kitchen sink peeling a potato and she said, she was telling me about something that had happened that day and she said, I I've been wanting to tell you this for a couple of weeks now and I don't know how else to say it except that I think you should have him tested.
And it was, you know, those moments you have like that out of body experience where everything kind of slows down and it's just like tunnel vision and and that was one of those moments.
I remember, you know, there was things going on around me and I couldn't hear anything except that and just thinking, not my baby.
Like I can't I just
I just felt just crushed.
But at the same time, it was a mixture of this, you know, my heart just breaking as well as a little bit of relief that we might have an answer and he might be able to get help.
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