How to tell him about his condition, and when to tell him became the question. Do you tell a two-year old about brain scans and Probst-bundles? Do you wait until he is ten and can fully process the science of it all? We decided, after much deliberation, to begin explaining this to Tim at such a young age that he would never be able to remember a day in his life when he didn’t know about ACC. We started by explaining in small ways, that his “thinker” was a little bit different from other people’s but that it was a good thing, because it made him special. Over time, we’ve come to refer to Tim’s ACC as Magic Brain, as in, “Tim has a Magic Brain.” We started with that when Tim was just about two years old.
