"The history of a special girl and a special cat"Under this name lies an incredibly touching and life-affirming story. His main characters are a girl and a cat. The girl is six years old, her name is Iris Grace. The cat is slightly smaller, her name is Tula. Iris Grace has autism. This became clear not immediately. Only in the fourth month of Iris's life did her parents understand that with their precious girl it would not be easy. She did not sleep well, and if she fell asleep, it was only on her mother's shoulder. Mom and Dad hoped it would pass. But there were all the new features of the Iris Grace behavior. She did not like the company, and sometimes she went into her own world: her eyes were glassy, the girl seemed to float away somewhere far away. Doctors assured me that this is normal. And Iris's mother in general has ceased to understand something because of constant lack of sleep.
1 / 7Picture: facebook.com / IrisGracePaintingPhoto: facebook.com/IrisGracePaintingPhoto: facebook.com/IrisGracePaintingPhoto: facebook.com/IrisGracePaintingPhoto: facebook.com/IrisGracePaintingPhoto: facebook.com/IrisGracePaintingPhoto: facebook.com/IrisGracePaintingAccording to the year, problems with sleep have not gone away. Rather aggravated. The girl's mom was in despair. But one day something happened: Iris suddenly stopped demanding maternal attention. She lay all morning and looked at the books, turning over the pages and stuck on each one for a long time. Mom finally understood: her daughter sees this world differently from others. Therefore, she can watch the trees for a long time outside the window. Therefore, she listens to music so that her whole body "sings" to her. Things always had to be in the same place. Carrying Iris only agreed to the same clothes. Footwear? No. For months, and Iris only became more closed. "Mom" and "Dad" - that's all she sometimes said. The diagnosis of "autism" was put to her only in two years. Parents were scared. But now they at least knew what they were dealing with. Now they learned to communicate with their daughter anew. Heris drew very carefully: a bizarre mixture of ease and thoughtfulness. Then there was a breakthrough - speech therapist Iris advised to teach the girl to draw. But I did not have to learn. Iris perfectly coped with brushes and paints. The pictures of the girl turned out amazing. So it seemed not only to her mother. Parents created for Iris a page on Facebook, something like a gallery for a baby. And suddenly ... people began to ask them to sell them paintings to Iris. Even the originals are not copies. The girl was then three years old. She was not like the others. She was famous and ingenious. Fans of her work are our idols. It's Zoe Deschanel, Angelina Jolie, Ashton Kutcher.
1 / 3Photo: @ irisgracepaintingPhoto: @ irisgracepainting Photo: @ irisgracepainting And how is Tula? Soon she appeared. Thanks to the cat, the girl learned to trust the world around her. Tula became the conductor for Iris. The baby even began to sleep better - not usual five or six hours a day, but the whole night! Exhausted by many years of lack of sleep, my mother was happy: this is not a cat, it's a gift of fate. Now the parents are sure: they will manage. This is described in the book "The Story of a Special Girl", which was recently published in Russian by Livebook. It was very hard for my parents. After all, they did not understand what their child feels, how they react to extraneous sound, a flash of light, even the feeling of sand under their feet. They were exhausted. They are not very easy now. But at the same time, mom and dad so believed in their daughter, trying to do everything possible, and impossible, that their baby still returned from their world to their common - a large world of people.
