Aaron is five years old, lives in Sabiñánigo And as any child of his age likes to run, cars, drawings and music. He does not speak because he has nonverbal autism but a look or a smile is enough to thank him for everything his parents and his 9 -year -old do for him. What Aaron may not know is that it is the reason why his mother Evohé launched a book about autism. He did it from “the warmth” and not from “the diagnosis” and under the title of “Somos” put four characters to live adventures and misadventures. Each of them special and each of them with different qualities.
“On April 2 (World Autism Day) I wanted to tell a story to the children of the school of Aaron. I looked for several stories but I did not see my son or what I would like to convey, so my husband told me that why I did not try to write one. Brother.
At that time, Evohé sent him to three publishers and finally signed with Apuleyo. The book will be available in about two weeks on the editorial website, at the FNAC, Casa del Book and El Corte Inglés as well as in local businesses of Sabiñánigo such as Pepartic or Benjamín & Nadia.
“What I would like to get to people is that a child is a child. It doesn’t matter if there is any type of diagnosis. My son is autistic but it is still a child and I will not be in the future but I would like society to focus on the capacities to give opportunities to all, more than in disabilities. My son may not work on certain things because he cannot, but perhaps in many others. It is a word that repeats me because the more there is talk of it, the more the opposite is done.
“Focus on the capabilities of each one”
At 5 years, Aaron enjoys going to the birthdays of his class friends and Evohé can’t get more excited when someone invites him. And what would be common in the life of any child in their case is not so much. “We have lived quite painful situations with this. That, for example, some child of his sister’s class invites her and say that little brothers can go and then Aaron is the only one who has no chair or a glass of water. Also invite children to celebrate Aaron’s birthday and tell us several who can’t go because they went out and then find them in the street … The truth is that it hurts and I do not understand why Different, “says Evohé.
Evohé remembers the moment when a child in Aaron’s class invited a birthday. “I personally wrote to that child’s mother to tell him that he was not necessary to invite him if they really did not want and she told me that they wanted to, that her son was a friend of Aaron and that he loved him very much. I taught the message to my husband and we both started crying.”
“We are” is the first step that Uwha given to fulfill the promise he made to Aaron: try to change the world. “I remember that I told him I did not know if he was going to be able but that, at least, he was going to try. He did not speak but with the look he put and the caress served me like a thank you.”
