Matthew has CEREBRAL PALSEY....(CP)

ok....so i KNOW this....but i FORGET THIS!!! today, i had an ARDS meeting at his school for his homebound and to talk to everyone about our future goals and what he has done this school year....it was pretty cool to hear how much he has PROGRESSED!! i love it! soooo, i was talking to one of the therapist and we were talking about what we wanted him to do....and there is another family that i am REALLY close to and what STARTLED me was that she said, "you can't compare matthew to ANYONE ELSE!! he has CP and that makes LOTS of things HARD FOR HIM!!" and that was like a WOW moment....he has been diagnosed since he was a year old....and REALLY, i just was SHOCKED when she REMINDED ME that he HAS CP!!! i told her, that when she said that, it just SHOCKED ME...she told me that it was because we are such wonderful parents that we treat him JUST like the other two so we don't SEE his DISABLITLY!!! and that is it EXACTLY....i FORGET that he has CP...i really do!! with that other little boy who is also special needs, he just started to walk (they are a month apart) and i was soooo excited for HIM....and then i thought to myself...ok matthew, LET'S GO!! YOU CAN DO IT!!....FORGETTING that it is HARDER for him to do THAT and many OTHER THINGS....i don't SEE him with CP.....

anyway, such a SHOCKER but a WAKE UP CALL that he DOES need a lot of work and he is NOT LIKE OTHER KIDDOS!!! i love my son soooooooo much that i dont' SEE his disablities!! such a special little boy....