Kirby-kun, our lovely little boy, as told by me, Fumu, suffers from a lifelong neurological condition known as autism. He has puffball parents whom love him very much and they live here at our house but they have to work.

I am in 6th grade with my brother bun and we both come home from school at 2:00 pm each day, and Kirby in fact goes to regular school too! (right next to our school) Though he's in a certain type of classroom and serveces for kids like him...

Kirby was born on march 28, and without any complications on a full term pregnancy. He was born healthy and bright, with his eyes open, and smiling though he couldn't see things til a few months later. His mother who's name is Melissa, named the little pink balloon "Kirby".

He is currently 7 years old, and me and my family enjoyed seeing him too! i couldn't stop looking into his beautiful blue eyes, wrapped safely in his velvety blue blankey...

...but from infancy, we and his parents began to notice that Kirby-kun was very different from other children. For instance, he stopped looking into everyone's eyes, stopped babbling for a while and his speech is quite delayed, even today. In case if you're wondering, yes he has 'meltdowns' and behaviour problems like that...

Pupupu village is much bigger than when Kirby was 4 years old! Now there are much more buildings and places and even beginning tall buildings and small skyscrapers. It's actually a peninsula in the very northeast of a big continent but that's another story...

When he was 2 years old, he was taken to a children's hospital for specialty care 100 miles away from our house with Kirby, me, my family and Kirby's parents. We rode a big van there and it took an hour and a half on a early spring day.

We were all perfectly healthy, its just that there's very few resources here in Pupupu Village for children of Kirby's age and needs and back when he was a toddler, first, there was only one doctor in our village named "Dr. Yabui" and second, our village had no doctors qualified to give anyone a diagnosis of autism. Anyways, Yabui is a medical doctor, not a specialist.

The hospital was a small building like a doctor's office, it didn't even LOOK like a hospital! the waiting room has a tv on the wall, soft comfy yet firm chairs, and the check-in women even have pens that look like flowers! Kirby even took a flower pen out of the mug on the check-in women's counter and twirled it, giggling. I had to take it from him to put it back into the mug.

The appointment took 3 and a half hours, they had him evaluated for ID (intellect disability), they had to rule out other conditions like SPD, Apraxia, and simple Learning Difficulties (dyslexia, etc).

Because we didn't want to have to drive all the way back for another day, the appointment was a bit lengthy, so me and Bun brought some lunch (so did our family) for us to eat, and i brought our nintendo 3ds, kindle fire, ipad and my cupcake-shaped stress ball to prevent us from getting bored.

Who helped our sweet little pink balloon receive his diagnosis, you ask? well, several therapists, social workers, and a doctor, all of whom were very kind and willing to listen to us and study our little boy. By 'several', i mean like 3 or 4, not 5 or 7 but thats still alot!

By the time the doctor was ready to reveal the results, my mom Memu expected he'd receive a high-functioning diagnosis or a simple learning difficulty. But the results were shocking... I'm trying to stay calm... *sniff sniff*...

Back when Kirby was first evaluated at age 2, he was given a low-to-mid functioning diagnosis. When he was reevaluated at age 7 this year, he was given a StM high functioning/mild low functioning diagnosis, and we are amazed at Kirby's development despite his daily difficulties and many times very dark moments, but he is a child of tremendous growth.

Now, I know you're curious how much he is affected. I almost don't wish to admit it, but he lays... on... a border... *sniff*

He was diagnosed between Sev-Mod/Mod-Sev range on what is known as the ADOS Scale. I saw his, we all saw it, and almost felt hopeless. Would Kirby ever have children, raise a family or drive? The doctor told us that Kirby would never learn how to speak properly, live independently or read. But the last part is proven wrong! Although it took him a long time to learn how to read, he learned last year at age 6 how to read basic picture books by himself, proving he isn't dyslexic! We were amazed...

Kirby's type of autism in case if you're curious is Autistic Disorder or simply put, autism. He has also been diagnosed with DCD (dyspraxia), ADHD, ODD, MRELD (mixed language disorder), Anxiety-NOS and even Development Delay. Most doctors wouldn't diagnose the patient with both ASD and DD...

Though he has been potty trained when he was 4 years old, he sometimes still wets his pants a bit but that's okay. And although he is a slow learner academically and has academic delays, its okay if he has to learn differently and slowly than healthy children.

What are some things Kirby likes, you ask? He loves going to school, learning and being accepted, Watermelon, food and cooking, his friends he has made, me and my family, my mum's ipad and kindle fire (sometimes hogs it from me! lol) and computer. and butterflies!

*Sniff* im tired... *sniff*

*looks at Kirby, sleeping in his starry bed*

*sniff* a few hour ago, Kirby became very upset he couldn't play outside because it was raining, he had homework and it was 8:00 pm, his meltdown lasted over an hour. He was screaming, crying, banging and hitting his head, tried to bite me twice as i kept trying to calm him down... isnt even the 30th time he's hit himself...

*sniff* ...he cried himself to sleep... he's very affected... but we love him... *sniff*

*strokes kirby's forehead gently* *crying* Kirby... I'm sorry that I've hurt your feelings... *sniff* You are my little sunshine... *sniff*

KIRBY-KUN'S SUNSHINE!