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Few people have a family like mine. Hallmark moment: I am loved no matter how many times a day I need to change my shirt. And believe me, that’s a lot. I feel so fortunate in that. For all my life, I really haven’t wanted much. All I really wanted was to talk and to have friends. And I wanted to be loved. All my life I was loved by my family, and now I am loved by so many real friends. I can talk now too, which is the icing on the cake of my life. 

So what lessons have I learned? Firstly, dreams can come true. Secondly, I didn’t dream big enough. Lol! I am going to create new and bigger dreams. I allowed my fragile X diagnosis to control me too much. I knew I was not cognitively impaired, but still fell into a pattern of thinking that made me doubt myself. Basically, I had no real ambition because, why bother? And that, of course, had  me wishing for very little. 

Now that I can talk I am rethinking my own wishes. I am completely capable of academic achievement, for example. I believe I am capable of going to college. I am capable of more.