Do you want to see how ferrets helped my son? Helped us? How YOU all helped us? This is a movie of Sean age 4-18 depicting his life with autism and with ferrets. This video shows a lot of footage BEFORE Rocky when he was nonverbal much of the time. It is shocking to see him so flat and not connecting with us to the next clip dancing around with Rocky chattering on and on. It took me weeks to get this footage over his life time together and squish into a tiny time piece along with text explanations of what you are seeing. So, I hope you go look at it. It's really something to see Before viewing, click 480p, and click on the button right next to it that looks like a double arrow on the bottom of the video screen (towards the right). You'll be glad (especially since there is some text to read so you know what you are looking at). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5KSESOkla8 If you are wondering why it is quiet and so low-key, that is because that's what our life with Sean was like until middle school. -- I'd like to say that because I had to squish everything in for a 10 min YouTube movie, the footage of Sean i included was taken during average days. Not when he tried to talk and not when he would rock in silence and much worse, so it is a little misleading. Very important to note that and it was something I should have pointed out more. It's in the comments there now. His adulthood footage comes across right on the nose. There are no bad times and no great times. But that is because he has far, far less extreme times now. He was capable of talking up to 4 word phrases at age 5, but wouldn't most of the time and it didnt' always make meaningful sense. Right before Rocky came at age 8, he could talk a little more and get his needs met quite well. But that was rarely and much of it was super high functioning mimicing in one form or another. Computers, then sign language is what made the monumental leaps with communication during his childhood. Rocky triggered another huge leap in communication AND the biggest social/emotional leap he had ever had in his life. Wolfy [Posted in FML 6615]