Hi!  My name is Dimitri.  I am in the second grade.  I like to ride my bike, play video games, and play with my dog.  I also like to spend time with my sister, Destiny. She is a little bit older than me.  Destiny is different from other kids.  But that is okay with me.  Destiny is a really cool sister.  I do not think she is different. She is just Destiny to me.

Destiny is older than me, but she is smaller, so people think I am the big brother.  Destiny does not talk, and she learns in a special way.  That does not mean she is weird or anything.  She can still do a lot of the things I can do.  She loves to run races.  Sometimes I let her win, because I love to see her be happy. We are a good team!

Because Destiny does not speak, I have to find different ways to talk to her.  We say hello with a special high five that only we know.  Destiny will use her hands and fingers to talk to me sometimes.  She has a special tablet that helps her as well.  She points to a picture on the tablet and then it talks for her.  Destiny will use this if she cannot help me understand what she needs.  We do not play games on this tablet because we do not want anything to happen to it.  It helps Destiny a lot.

Sometimes noises will make Destiny get a headache.  She puts on special headphones when that happens.  She does not like it when other people touch those headphones, so I just leave her alone when she is wearing them.  Those headphones help block out extra noises and then Destiny's head does not hurt anymore.