And My Heart Cried

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YaYa Comas

I was talking with my second oldest grandbaby, one half of a set of twins today. She is now 21 almost 22 and she shared with me her experience in school and how each year got harder and harder for her. I always knew she was having trouble in school, but at the time I didn’t understand her struggle, I do now. She has what so many of our kids have, a learning disability. More prevalent in drug babies than ever before, and my heart cried cause I didn’t know, but I should have.

She shared with me how it broke her heart not to be able to march on that stage with her sister, no prom, or any of the other activities that go along with that mile stone and my heart cried. She shared with me just how hard it was for her in school, she said grandmommie I really tried but I just couldn’t understand, it was like a foreign language. she said I would really be trying to follow the teacher and then something would distract me and I would be lost for the rest of the class, sometimes for the rest of semester and my heart cried.

This is the gift my daughter, their mother left to them, it is so hard in so many ways for drug babies. Learning disabilities are not something new, but with this new age of drugs it is so much more severe. I told her but now you know you can learn and you are not stupid it just takes a little longer for you as it did for me. Sometimes school is not for everybody parents and if you see this help them get a trade because no matter what they have to live and it is way easier on you if they are able to care for themselves.

Learning disabilities are nothing new, but how we handle them can be.