9 Year Old Freddy

So I have this 9 year old.

He is the surprise youngest of his 2 siblings and has all these fancy letters, ASD, ADHD, SPD, SED…. it’s like soup, really, and sometimes it seems like it overshadows him.

But thankfully he has a BIG personality.

He loves music and police officers. They are his jam and part of being autistic means he has a lot of time.to dedicate to focusing on those things.

Most of all, he loves classic rock. Jethro Tull. Bon Jovi. The Beatles. Def Leopard. Santana. Rolling Stones.

But his absolute favourite?
Queen.

He loves Queen. He knows all their names and where they are from. He knows every word of their songs. Which album they’re on. When they were recorded.

And he adores Freddy Mercury. So much that he dressed as him for Halloween last year.

Last night at ROGERS PLACE I took him to see Queen with Adam Lambert. He was so excited, he was talking about it for months enough his siblings were going crazy. And he decided to wear his Halloween costume, too.

I took little Freddy for dinner and Starbucks and out to a concert. I don’t get one on one time like that much.

And I loved every minute, because my kid is f@#$’n cool.

Little Freddy was stopped every few minutes by someone wanting a photo. He was in heaven striking poses. He may be Instagram famous soon, he must have taken a few dozen.
(Bonus police officer autographs for his book didn’t hurt, either!)

Then a concert employee came up to us out of the blue with a handful of unsold floor tickets and asked if we wanted two.

We went from section 205 to only 15 or so rows back from the tip of the stage. A-mazing.

Downside? Little Freddy couldn’t see, once everyone stood.

So I piggybacked him for 2.5 hours. In four inch heels and a pinup dress. While he screamed every word of the songs with Adam Lambert and cheered on Brian May and air drummed along with Roger Taylor – Official until almost 11 at night.

I might not be able to walk for a week but you guys, watching my son have the best night of his short little life this far, where he was around people who not only GOT his costume right away but who thought a 9 year old dressed as Freddy Mercury was amazing instead of just weird?

The.
Best.

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