A photo: Starface Natalia's younger sister from birth has a severe form of autism and cerebral palsy. All childhood the future model was engaged in her upbringing. And when she grew up and made a career, she founded the Naked Heart Foundation, which deals with the problems of children with disabilities in mental development. Today, within the framework of the Moscow Salon of Education, they discussed this topic all day. arrived in Moscow specifically for the sake of this conference, where she told about the successes and problems of the foundation, as well as about her: - Now "special" children are taken to ordinary educational schools. My mother did not have the opportunity to send Oksana to school, even such thoughts did not arise. At that time the only place where we were offered to arrange it was a boarding school where she would live for five days, and on the weekend we would take her home. Have tried. But quickly realized that there she would simply die of sadness, without my mother and me. And they took him home. So Oksana grew up in isolation. The neighbors escaped us, some even hated, because the little sister, if she wanted, could knock on the battery all day, it was hard for her to explain that she did not need to do this. And I remember how she learned to open the tap in the bathroom and dipped her neighbors several times. Again, I did not understand that I had harmed someone, I was just glad that I had learned to do this, and I repeated it several times. Now I remember it with a smile, but then, of course, it was not at all funny. But I want to note that I did not have a reciprocal hatred for my neighbors, I understood their feelings, I was not embittered. It is very important for parents of "special" children not to cultivate this anger. If pedestrians look at the child, do not grumble angrily: "What are you staring at," it's better to smile, offer to tell about your child, what he knows and what does not. This is very important for your future and the future of your child. Oksanina naivety, good-naturedness, her love for us gave to us with my mother of strength. Sister did not understand what we had to face. Without knowing it herself, Oksana helped me and my mother to cope and wait for the hard days. Her smile and positive support us when things were very bad. At that moment her kisses were important, her carelessness. Sometimes we needed it more than it did in us.
