Denial. I think most of us are pretty good at it, but I have to say
that regarding my son Eric and his developmental delays, I was Champion
of Denial. As a parent, one of the hardest things is seeing and
acknowledging that your child is delayed in some area. We all see the
perfection of our children; how can this perfect and beautiful child be
(gulp!) "delayed"? Believe me, denial is usually the way to go here,
except it's also the way to go if you want it to come back later and
bite you in the butt. When Eric was an infant I held out the hope for
months that he'd somehow magically jump ahead and be "okay", but he
didn't and he wasn't and eventually I had to reconcile with that and
accept the help that's given to kids who need it. But by then he had
lost a fair amount of valuable time.
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