The naming....

As Rajesh said it, we humans are so much into categorizing. It makes life so very simple and easy for us to understand. But then all this naming and categorizing takes away from the simple joys of life...
Just as it has done in case of Sidharth. The doctor who diagnosed him for autism did not want to label him and at that time I did not realise the importance of this. But now over the years as I see my six year old son being viewed differently and now I have begun to understand what Dr Vinay Malhotra actually meant four years back.
Looking at Sid, he is just as normal as any child and yet as abnormal as any other child. It is just the way we want to see him. Yes by calling him autistic we have taken away from him his right to a normal life. It is my endeavour to restore this right to him, this is the least I could do for him being his mother.
Just today morning I met Viren. Viren is Sid's new class mate and he lives very close to our place. Viren has some brain complication, a too long scientific name which I could not understand as his mother rattled it out. All I could piece together was that there was lack of oxygen in some part of Viren's brain. Today morning as he came to the bus stop, Viren greeted me. A smile lit up his face and he made my day.
Coming back to Viren's so called abnormality how many of us wear spectacles for our eyes are weak, how many of us carry blood pressure tablets for our BP keeps fluctuation, how many of us carry tablets along with us each day just because our heart would not beat correctly. I could go on. Are we also special children just like Viren, Siddharth, Vandit, Minrashah, Jessica.......