Desde niño, Juan José había mostrado su predisposición a las ensoñaciones, a evadirse de su realidad inmediata para refugiarse en exóticos mundos, donde su persona y sus sueños siempre resultaban ilesos, aún cuando se librasen terribles batallas.

Era sumamente difícil para el niño explicar sus refugios a los adultos y a otros niños. Así que aprendió a no comentar, resumiendo en una palabra que no generaba preguntas: soñando despierto. Su hermana mayor era la única que lo escuchaba, fascinada con las historias. Ella lo llamaba, Jeijei o simplemente Jei. Él la llamaba Su, en lugar del largo Susana. Su era la intermediaria entre Jei y el mundo físico, especialmente en cuanto a las reglas impuestas por los padres y la egoísta Reyna, nacida dos años después que el chico. En palabras de Susana, Reyna tenía en exceso lo que le faltaba a Juan José, un espíritu práctico que irremediablemente la orientaba a conseguir lo que quería. No soñaba con helados, los pedía, los exigía, manipulaba hasta obtenerlos.

Susana tenía once años cuando nació Juan José y trece cuando llegó Reyna. A Juan José lo recibió como el hermanito amado aún antes de nacer, que enriqueció su mundo de afectos y alegrías compartidas con sus padres. Susana afirmaba que desde la llegada del niño, su mundo era más azul, mientras que de la hermanita, con picardía, afirmaba que su color era dorado y, a veces verde, porque deseaba muchos juguetes de Jei y hacia de todo para interrumpir los coloquios entre Jei y Su. Reyna los llamaba con un nombre que los englobaba a los dos JeiSu. Y el llamada era un mandato, al que ambos acudían.

Jeijei era pues feliz en su mundo azul, porque era su mundo y en su mundo real, porque con Su de guía, encontraba respuestas acertadas. Pero...¡a la vida de Susana llegó Sergio! El azul pintó también su mundo y tenía menos tiempo para visitar el de su hermano. Por primera vez en su vida, Jeijei tuvo pinceladas verdes en su mundo azul, la envidia tocó su puerta al ver a Susana escuchar a Sergio, con los ojos sonrientes, absorbiendo sus palabras. Y cuando Sergio se iba, los ojos de Susana lo seguían y ella se mostraba ausente. El azul de Jeijei comenzó a recibir más pinceladas de colores tierra, amarillo, ocre y gris. La tristeza pintó sus ojos azules, que ante la ausencia destilaron lágrimas ocultas, mientras el gris se intensificaba buscando el negro.

Susana ya cumplidos sus 19 años, pletórica de felicidad por el amor de pareja felizmente correspondido y portal de innumerables sueños de azul profundo, se alejó de Jei; pero... en su mundo azul percibió el aura gris de Jei y se asustó... y comprendió... Lo buscó en su rincón, en el patio interior, con la emoción madura de la hermana-madre, apenas susurró su nombre y los ojos del niño de ocho años, le enseñaron un arco iris. Se disculpó. Jei entendió fácilmente cuando ella le explicó que también ahora tenía su propio mundo azul, el mundo azul de Susana y lo invitó a escuchar su historia.

El mundo de ambos se estaba transformando, el del niño, con emociones nuevas que no entendía y que debía pintar de azul, el de Susana, todo pintado de azul la obligada a deslindar los diferentes matices. Ella era el puente seguro para el autismo leve de Jeijei y debía ayudarlo a encontrar otros puentes.

Since childhood, Juan José had shown his predisposition to daydreams, to escape from his immediate reality to take refuge in exotic worlds, where his person and dreams were always unscathed, even when terrible battles were fought.

It was extremely difficult for the child to explain his shelters to adults and other children. So he learned not to comment, summing up in one word that did not generate questions: daydreaming. His older sister was the only one listening, fascinated by the stories. She called him, Jeijei or just Jei. He called her Su, instead of the long Susana. Su was the intermediary between Jei and the physical world, especially regarding the rules imposed by the parents and the selfish Reyna, born two years after the boy. In Susana's words, Reyna had in excess what Juan José lacked, a practical spirit that inevitably guided her to get what she wanted. He did not dream of ice cream, he asked for it, he demanded it, he manipulated until he obtained it.

Susana was eleven when Juan José was born and thirteen when Reyna arrived. He received Juan José as the beloved little brother even before birth, who enriched his world of affection and joys shared with his parents. Susana affirmed that since the arrival of the child, her world was more blue, while that of the little sister, with mischief, she affirmed that her color was golden and sometimes green, because she wanted many toys from Jei and did everything to interrupt the conversations, between Jei and Su. Reyna called them with a name that encompassed the two JeiSu. And the call was a mandate, to which both went.

Jeijei was thus happy in his blue world, because it was his world and in his real world, because with Her guide, he found correct answers. But ... Sergio came to Susana's life! Blue also painted her world and she had less time to visit her brother's. For the first time in his life, Jeijei had green brush strokes in his blue world, envy knocked on his door when he saw Susana listen to Sergio, her eyes smiling, absorbing his words. And when Sergio left, Susana's eyes followed him and she was absent. Jeijei's blue began to receive more strokes of earth, yellow, ocher and gray colors. Sadness painted his blue eyes, which in the absence distilled hidden tears, while the gray intensified looking for black.

Susana, now 19 years old, full of happiness for the love of a happily reciprocated couple and the portal of innumerable deep blue dreams, left Jei; but ... in her blue world she perceived Jei's gray aura and was scared ... and she understood ... She looked for him in his corner, in the inner courtyard, with the mature emotion of the sister-mother, she barely whispered his name and the eyes of the eight-year-old boy showed her a rainbow. She apologized. Jei easily understood when she explained that she also now had her own blue world, Susana's blue world, and invited him to listen to her story.

The world of both was transforming, that of the boy, with new emotions that he did not understand and that he had to paint blue, that of Susana, everything painted blue forced her to delimit the different nuances. She was the safe bridge for Jeijei's mild autism and should help him find other bridges.

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