Years ago, I was befriended by a high school teenager whose route home was past my house. (I have a good relationship with our young people, they like to show me their accomplishments and report cards, even ones I don't really "know", but who have seen me around...and of course I encourage this!)

Anywho, I can't remember what we talked about, he'd spend a few minutes each day sitting on my front porch chatting. I thought he was BRILLIANT. He was always excited to show me his Artwork and Poetry and sang me a few songs he'd written too. He was an all-around cutie pie, the spitting image of Leonardo DiCaprio.

Like I said, Just Brilliant.
He shined...and in a way that really pulled on my HeartStrings...he was Sooooo Innocent....Soooo Pure....Soooo Sweet....Sooooo Open and Wonder-Filled.
(yeah, like Me, LOL)

He shared his struggles with me...he wasn't understood by his family and peers. He told me I was the only person he could talk to. After some time, he presented me with his school ring, insisting he wanted me to have it

(Trust Me, I wanted HIM to keep something so special and momentous)...but he wouldn't have it. He cried. I had to accept it and planned to keep it for a few days and convince him to take it back and wear it. He'd call me now and then just to chat a few minutes. Never long.
One night, shortly after receiving his ring, my phone rang. It was a woman who said she was the young man's stepmother and demanded that I return his ring to HER, she would come pick it up and how she spent so much money on getting it for him using his stipend the government was paying her to care for him

....And did I have any idea that he attended a Special School...and did I have any idea that he was RETARDED?
Whaaaaa...???
Well, holy shit, Batman...if he's retarded, I'm dumber than that and so is everyone else, because I can't draw or sing or write poetry like he did!!!

I was stunned. There was nothing "retarded" about him...
Are these talented and brilliant young ones being classified as "retarded"????!!!!
Someone that was to me like a breath of fresh air? Like sunshine on Earth? If Jesus had incarnated again into human form and walked amongst us quietly, He would be Him.
I told the stepmother my perspective of her stepson. How multi-talented he is. How proud I am of him.Told her gently not to judge him. He's different, but in no way retarded.

She judged him unfairly, I'm sure many in his circle did. I witnessed one last time his Innocence challenged on the streets as he walked by. Some kids taunting him Just For Looking Like A Ray Of Sunshine and being sooo sweetly polite.
One kid knocked this precious young man out cold.

Sigh. Long and difficult story. In the end, this Sweet Angel hung himself...the next night after his stepmother came by to pick up his ring.
(she called me back to blame me for his death...if I would've just "minded my own business and not talked to him or encouraged him...why did I so stupidly convince him he could BE something and give him hope...why did I even LOOK at 'this retard'"?)

Sigh. Again. Tears. Sigh. HeartPain. More tears and sighs.
I wrote this blog, shared this experience...because there are alot of Indigo Children, Crystal, Starseed and Rainbow Children who deal with this harsh, cruel judgment.
Sometimes not being understood...being different...is Fatal.
And unnecessary. If people would just Understand From The Inside (walk in another's shoes)...from being sympathetic to anothers Journey ...by being compassionate and Loving with all of Divine Creation. ESPECIALLY with those who you see as 'different'.
The "challenged" have Much to Teach us. In all actuality, We are the ones with the challenge to... Judge Not.
May we only support and embrace them from henceforth.
Thank You for listening~~~<3