My daughter is 10yr old and had a dual dx of Autism and Down syndrome. One day on her field trip to the zoo, we were looking at the lions. I decided to explain to her the difference between the male and female lions. I said, “You see the lion with the big mane, well that is a boy lion.” My daughter looked at me like I was crazy and said, “No mom it is a L I O N”, holding out the word to pronounce it correctly as if I wouldn’t understand. She has trouble understanding that animals are boy or girl, they to her are just dog, cat, or in this case, a LION!
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Good Move… using the “mane” as the differentiator between boy and girl. You know what they say: The mane thing to remember, is to keep the mane thing, the mane thing. Or is it, to keep the MAIN thing, the MAIN thing. Oh, well.
Should’ve known you would get it more hot water with the mane thing!!!