I Never Meant To Raise an Ocean Swimmer

Published: August 24, 2007, 6:54 am

Tags: charlisms, sensory, animals, classics, asd, aspergers, autism, beach, children, dolphin, education, family, fish, health, ocean, pdd nos, surfing, water, whale

So it turns out I was right: Earlier this summer, I predicted that Charlie would swim the farthest out into the ocean, beyond and over Jim’s head and swimming where Jim is comfortable, with me posted by the lifeguard stand—-and this is precisely what has happened. The ocean is no swimming pool, but a living creature, changeable, wild, and mightier than us all. And I rather suspect that, while Charlie loves best to swim in rough and foaming waves that swirl him around and buzz over his head, he has little sense of the danger involved. Charlie loves to be amid the ocean’s power, but he does not realize what that power can do—earlier this summer, a boy about Charlie’s age drowned in a rip current at another beach in New Jersey. That boy was swimming at 7pm, after the lifeguards had left. After four straight days of rain, the lifeguards were back and Charlie—who had gotten in his swims during and in despite of the rainy days—gloried in the curling

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