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2) Even with hypotonia, he still can do exercises with very light weights. Find ways to reward him, but mostly to celebrate his new strength with a "trophy" as I mentioned before.


Even little things like hand exercisers, leg weights, you might have to sew up some sand in a pouch and attach it to his wrists or legs, and therefore make personallized ones.

You're creating new neural pathways of exercise=reward, not "My muscles are weak. I am tiny. I will never meet a girl who will like me."

Because he's smaller, he may end up being of shorter stature based upon being in a "lower percentile". Help him NOW to understand that he might not grow to be tall, but he can be big inside. It will take a very special lady to see that in him. The best way is to help develop his self-worth.

He has so many challenges that you have to just focus on one, look into his eyes, make good eye contact, speak slowly and intentionally to always build him up. Minimize criticism but also as he gets stronger, empower him by saying, "Yes, you have limitations, so do I, so does even the stronger man who's handsome." Find videos of strong handsome guys admitting times they felt low self-worth. Then he'll see he's the SAME as all others, even the most strong and handsome.

When someone feels different, you don't ignore the difference, for if you do, whatever you say...rings false.

What you do is help them realize all people feel different, and so they slowly process that they are the same in some ways.