Not like Other Children *Reprinted from "The Parents' Magazine", 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York 17, by kind permission.

We started on our career as parents exactly as thousands do every year; a little apprehensive , tremendously happy, unaccountably proud and more than a little at a loss. But whereas in the usual case the child manages to survive the first fumbling, weeks, thrives and learns and becomes wholly a joy, our little son did not thrive or learn, and remained for nine months a worry, as well as a joy. He did not gain properly, he did not eat, he did not learn to play or sit up alone as he should. The only thing he did on schedule was to produce teeth at the right times. When, at nine months, we took him to another doctor, we found that he had not learned, had not thrived for the reason that he was feeble-minded. He would never be like other children. If he lived to grow up, he probably could never earn even * Reprinted from " The Parents' Magazine ", 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York 17, by kind permission.