{"id":7498,"date":"2016-02-02T13:33:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T18:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=7498"},"modified":"2016-02-03T02:08:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T07:08:55","slug":"he-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/02\/he-knows\/","title":{"rendered":"He Knows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He sits, curled up like a comma in the rocking chair with me. His right cheek is planted on my right shoulder, hands wrapped tightly around my waist.<\/p>\n<p>He is almost a teen-ager, but he still fits in this sacred space on my lap every night, the place where I have comforted him countless times over the years.<\/p>\n<p>I whisper to him the words I say every night.<\/p>\n<p>I am so proud of you.<\/p>\n<p>You are so smart, so funny, and so kind.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I got the two best boys in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>I love you.<\/p>\n<p>You are a good boy.<\/p>\n<p>There is an imperceptible shift in his body. His hands might clasp me a little tighter.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish I could know that he understands the depth of my love and respect for him.<\/p>\n<p>I ask him if he comprehends mommy\u2019s words, and I get the \u201cyes nod.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m left to wonder if my predominantly non-verbal son really gets it.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps no child really gets the extent of parental love.<\/p>\n<p>I tell him I love him again, and I see his small smile deepen ever so slightly.<\/p>\n<p>He knows. On his terms, and on his level, he knows.<\/p>\n<p>He knows without saying it in words.<\/p>\n<p>And tonight it\u2019s all I need, to know that we will have this bond even though we will never have a conversation about it.<\/p>\n<p>He knows.<\/p>\n<p>And tonight, that\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more on my family visit my blog at autismmommytherapist.wordpress.com\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Follow me on Facebook at Autism Mommy-Therapist<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/02\/he-knows\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He sits, curled up like a comma in the rocking chair with me. His right cheek is planted on my right shoulder, hands wrapped tightly around my waist. He is almost a teen-ager, but he still fits in this sacred space on my lap every night, the place where I have comforted him countless times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":7497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[293,295,294],"class_list":["post-7498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","category-ocean-county","tag-autism","tag-autism-acceptance","tag-autism-awareness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Disney-Halloween-2015-124-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1WW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}