An Invisible Obstacle

We sometime tend to take some little trivial things for granted without realizing these trivial things can be a big challenge for some other people.  For example learning the English Alphabet is seemingly simple enough, and yet for a child with Dyslexia, a learning disablity that impairs a person's ability to read, that doesn’t seem to be easy at all.  Unfortunatly, our world isn't perfect.  There are always people coming to this world with this kind of subtle imperfections that other ordinary people are hard to understand.  For a long period of time in the past,  their bitter experiences can only be swallowed by themselves.  Some struggle and suffer in their very day living even without realizing what their real problem is.  Some blame themselves, their families, their teachers, and even the society.  They don’t have a clue that they were born with their imperfections, an invisible obstacle inside themselves that they can't overcome.

It’s good news that the medical communities have started to identify those syndroms and try to find ways to help these people with these obstacles.   Hopefully, the general public can treat these people with open minds.  So, when you see a quiet child alway walking alone around the edge of a playground in which others are playing happily together,  please be kind not to simply label him or her as a loner or a stranger.  He or she may be a person with obstacles such as Autism or Asperger Syndroms.  He or she needs your understanding and support in his or her road ahead.  In a minimal way, we all should have a more friendly attitude toward them.