Neil-Te's voices started when he was about two. He would say, "My tummy says it's hungry." We would all humor him, and eventually that little statement expanded to other statements. "My tummy can't want that shirt." "My tummy isn't sleepy." Fast forward almost three years to a sample conversation about his tummy...
Neil-Te -"The people living inside me are very noisy today. I think that the mommy inside me had a baby. Do you know how my people eat, Mommy?"
Mommy -"No, Neil-Te, how do they eat?"
N- "Every time I drink, they catch it coming down in cups. Sometimes they even use straws. They also eat the same food I do."
M- "So how many people live inside you?"
N- thinking..."Now that the mommy had a new baby, there must be 11."
M- "Doesn't it get very crowded?"
N- "Well, I'm getting bigger every day, and they have very nice houses."
You get the idea of the conversations we have had. SS loves to get him talking about his people. She can barely control the laughter; for that matter, neither can I! Once in a while, I did worry that he really was hearing voices because his conversations were so serious and elaborate.
However, Thursday, I had a terrible shock. When I asked him if his people were full after breakfast, he answered, "They're not real, mommy. That's just pretend." Rather than feeling obvious relief that my son is not a lunatic, I had the horrid realization that he is growing up.
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