It has been slightly over a month since Jonathan started his new school. We have to switch school as he was not able to keep up with the pace in the previous school. In the new school, Jonathan has a dedicated one on one teacher, Jessie who has been assigned to him full time. So far, he seems to be enjoying school.

We also started medication on Jonathan to help him to focus. He seems to be able to sustain a longer attention span. But we noticed that the medication has effects on his emotions, resulting to regular emotional outbursts specially when he does not get the things he want. He is also taking melatonin at night to enable him to get a good night rest.

It has been a really long journey with Jonathan. Sometimes, it feels like a neverending uphill battle with no breaks. Deep down, our biggest fear is that Jonathan will never be independent. Nichlas has been really patient in trying to find him friends and get him to be sociable. Sometimes I see the despair in Nicke’s eyes as he sees Jonathan sinking more and more into his own little world. It breaks our hearts and at times, we feel really helpless. There really seems little we can do to help our precious little boy.

Nevertheless, we cannot give up but will keep trying to help him. We cannot hope that he will one day come out of his own little world but can only hope that he can cope in our world.