Ten.
September 30, 2015
It's all Lego. Bionicles. Minecraft. There's a still-unwavering belief in magic, and a brain that spins in a million different directions with a million different thoughts, ideas, theories. What if, and why, and most importantly, why not? He joined the school band and learned to ski and decided moving wasn't so scary after all. He's considering vegetarianism, for ethical reasons, and computer programming, for adding-Herobrine-to-Minecraft reasons. He'll still kiss and hug me goodbye in front of the kids at the bus stop, doesn't want a girlfriend because EW but has friends that are girls, but only if they like Ninja Turtles. To be honest, he prefers his brothers to his peers because they understand him, they accept him. They break his Legos and make a mess of his room, but he can talk to them about Bionicles for hours. They won't ever tell him to stop in the middle of a story, because that's impossible for him, almost physically painful. He talks about his feelings using the characters from Inside Out. He describes what things are like for him, he is articulate and self-aware and self-advocating. He retreats to his hammock swing in the basement when he needs to, when... Read more →