Ten\u00e9 was vier jaar oud toe die kleuterskool agterkom dat sy \u201canders\u201d is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHulle het nie geweet presies wat nie, en ek het nooit eens gedink dat sy outisme<\/i> het nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n \u201cOutisme<\/i> het sekere kenmerke, en ek kon nooit van di\u00e9 kenmerke by Ten\u00e9 bespeur nie,\u201d s\u00ea Thelma Martin, Ten\u00e9 se ma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Martin s\u00ea as sy nou terugdink, was daar definitief tekens wat sy gemis het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten\u00e9 is op ses jaar met Asperger<\/i>-sindroom gediagnoseer, wat intussen ingesluit is op wat genoem word die spektrum van outisme<\/i>. Sy is nou \u2019n gr. 7-leerling aan die Welkom-Volkskool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk dink as daar iets is wat ek vir ouers wil s\u00ea, is dit dat geen kind dieselfde as \u2019n ander is nie. Nie alles wat vir een kind werk, gaan vir almal werk nie,\u201d s\u00ea Martin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWaarvan ek wel seker is, is dat perdry my kind se lewe verander het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten\u00e9 het nooit baie interaksie met mense gehad nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy wou byvoorbeeld saam met maatjies speel, maar het nie geweet hoe en wat om te s\u00ea en doen nie.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy het baie opgekropte emosies gehad waaraan sy nie uiting kon gee nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Martin s\u00ea sy sal nooit die eerste keer dat Ten\u00e9 gaan perdry het, vergeet nie. Sy het glad nie gereageer op die instrukteur se bevele nie en het die arbeids\u00adterapeut uit die arena gejaag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haar instrukteur, Belinda Basson, het egter geduld en sy het sag met Ten\u00e9 gewerk en haar heeltyd gerusgestel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vandag is Ten\u00e9 \u2019n lewenslustige tiener wat daarna uitsien om tyd saam met haar nuwe perd, Slick Deputy<\/i>, deur te bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten\u00e9 neem deel aan die South African National Equestrian Schools Association (Sanesa) se streekkampioenskap. Sy is die afgelope vier jaar in die Vrystaat-span ingesluit en het verlede jaar twee goue medaljes in die nasionale kampioenskap gewen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Ten\u00e9 is aktief betrokke by Slick Deputy, wie se bynaam Sady is, se afrigting<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Sady<\/i> was \u2019n resiesperd, wat die afgelope paar jaar net as teelmerrie gebruik is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n \u201cTen\u00e9 is baie trots daarop,\u201d s\u00ea Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sy s\u00ea dit is moeilik om in woorde te beskryf wat perdry vir Ten\u00e9 beteken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPerdry leer \u2019n mens lewenslesse. Dit leer jou om aan te hou oefen al is jy moeg. Dit leer deursettingsvermo\u00eb, dit leer dissipline, dit maak \u2019n mens gefokus om iets te bereik en toegewyd aan die dier en die sportsoort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ten\u00e9 raak nie mismoedig wanneer sy uitdagings in perdry te\u00ebkom nie, maar weet sy gaan moet teruggaan en harder werk. Wanneer sy wel wen, is sy nederig dankbaar en trots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Perdry het haar geleer om met ander mense te kommunikeer. Baie mense is verbaas wanneer hulle hoor Ten\u00e9 is outisties<\/i>.<\/span> Perdry het haar geleer om ook \u2019n goeie maat te wees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Deur haar deelname aan perdry het sy geleer om teleurstelling te verwerk, want soms kry sy nie die prys waarvoor sy gewerk het nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sy gee nooit op nie. Dit maak haar vasberade om harder te werk vir wat sy wil bereik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sy weet dat \u2019n mens nie oornag \u2019n kampioen word nie en dat sy dalk harder as ander moet werk en langer moet wag vir haar suksesse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ten\u00e9 het geleer om trots te wees op klein vorme van vordering wat sy maak, en sy weet elke tree is \u2019n stap nader aan haar langtermyndoelwitte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ten\u00e9 droom daarvan om eendag met perde te werk. Sy wil perde teel vir kinders wat probleme ervaar met selfbeeld, selfvertroue, depressie, angs, stres, emosionele bewustheid, sosiale vaardighede, impulsbeheer, vertroue, empatie, probleemoplossing, aandagafleibaarheid, outisme en soveel meer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy kind het lewenslange vriendskappe gesmee. Sy maak elke dag herinneringe en ek is so trots op die jong dame waarin sy ontwikkel het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy raad is: Laat jou kind perdry, so gereeld as moontlik. Dit is \u2019n ware belegging in jou kind se lewe,\u201d s\u00ea Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ek dink as daar iets is wat ek vir ouers wil s\u00ea, is dit dat geen kind dieselfde as \u2019n ander is nie. 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\n Sady<\/span>
\n <\/i>se oupagrootjie was Secretariat, waarvan daar \u2019n rolprent gemaak is. D\u00edt is ook waar die naam van die ruiterdrag Ariat vandaan kom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n