“It all happened so fast. He stopped speaking altogether. I wasn’t hearing his sweet little voice saying ‘thank you’ after I gave him a cookie. He didn’t like to be touched anymore. He avoided people, even us, his parents. I wasn’t prepared to hear the diagnosis. It hit me hard. My jaw dropped.”
‘Charlie?! CHARLIE!’ My son wouldn’t look at me anymore. I didn’t even recognize him. My entire world came crashing down. The doctor told me ‘not to worry’. I later learned how wrong she was.’
‘My husband and I received a phone call from the teacher. Parents were complaining about our daughter. It was clear it was those whom I was confiding in. My best friend.’
“She demanded Chloe be removed and sent to an alternative school with ‘those kids.'”
