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Suzanna
Suzanna also had a remarkable memory. She was about a year and a half when we introduced her to puzzles and she couldn’t get enough of them. We started with the smaller ones around 10 pieces but she quickly graduated to 25 and by the time she was two was putting together 100 piece puzzles in record time. She also loved to play the memory game with her Dad. The memory game is where you have pairs of cards with pictures such as cats or dogs or other things and you turn them all upside down and try and figure out where the matching one would be found. You have to remember exactly where the card is so that when your turn comes you can find the one that will match the card that you turn over. She beat her Dad hands down every time. She could also line up her collection of Disney tapes and put each one in the proper case. There were no pictures on the tapes just words but she uncannily knew every time which case the tape went into. We made a little game of it and she rarely tired of it. I used to amaze my friends with this little trick of hers.
It was not until Suzanna entered kindergarten did I start to have real concerns about her. She just didn’t seem to get along with other children. She would hug them inappropriately or do other things that seemed to cause them to be uncomfortable around her. I noticed more and more that she was playing alone while other children enjoyed their camaraderie. It broke my heart to think that my daughter was being ostracized and she was only five years old. She was also expelled from Kindergarten for biting a student. I later found out from Suzanna that she was defending another classmate while he was being tied up by another child during playtime. I confronted the teacher about allowing children to tie each other up as I thought that seemed a bit inappropriate but she kept saying that my daughter was a handful and had violent tendencies. She also suggested I have her tested for ADD. I made the decision right then and there to take her out of Kindergarten and put her back in playschool where she seemed to get along better with the children and seemed much happier.
About two weeks after the biting incident, I received a phone call from a woman from the Exceptional Children’s Association, an organization that supports children with learning disabilities. The Kindergarten teacher had contacted them about Suzanna and she wanted to know if I would agree on a home visit so she could meet Suzanna and do an assessment. She met with myself and Suzanna and had subsequent visits until one day she phoned me and said she didn’t think anything was wrong with her developmentally but it wouldn’t hurt to have her seen by a pediatrician to make sure she didn’t have a hearing problem or anything else that may be the cause of her behavior. She also suggested that she might benefit from speech therapy because her speech not as clear as it should be for her age. She said Suzanna was a delightful child and she thought her quaint, a very interesting word choice and one that fit her to a tee.
