For those of you worried about his cholesterol, he only eats the whites and the dog happily eats the yolks, unconcerned with her lipid levels.
Progress is slow and adds up in such small moments that you don’t realize the sum total until one day, the kid who held your hand is now holding a diploma.
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A love of videos and the rigidity that comes with autism is sending him into a tailspin because he cannot find the video he’s looking for.
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I'd had enough. This was my chance to give the middle finger to the hurdles in my life.
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In hilarious, heartbreaking, frustrating and fantastic ways, we are “aware” of Autism.
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“Go in and take any room you like.” Then he paused and added, “You’ll be the only guests for the evening.”
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The “for better” is easy, it’s the ability to come back from the “for worse” that has carried us this far.
Enter Senior year and the onslaught of directives to which I have no defense and no room mom to bail me out.
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I’m sure someone with more flower and bulb experience might not have been astounded, but I felt like I had raised Aunt Margaret from the dead by way of a gardening miracle.
Parents, do we need to know everything? We have become a people who want details, timelines, explanations, and answers to questions we haven’t thought of yet. And we want it right now.
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We realized that if we were gone from the Church, we would never show that families like ours belong in the Church.
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“I point out that we’ve been on this thread for three hours and my kids could well be in college before I can get them the WiFi they need to complete high school.”
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And so goes the rapid fire auto interrogation. I once listened to Joe take someone back to 1986 with his persistent vehicular inquisition.
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I’m in a constant battle with a world that is trying to bring me down. Literally.
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No fence of any kind marked the boundary, our lawn just ended and the cornfield began.
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Church missed and cocktail mixing lessons, those are the childhood memories you don’t forget.
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This day the cold water shock of Autism was once again hitting me in the face, making me frustrated, angry and sad all at the same time.
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After trying to log into our bank account four times and failing, I realized it was best to give up and watch cat videos.
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Rather than look before you leap, I took a leap of faith and never looked back.
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Somewhat embarrassed, we always felt the need to explain why we had this tree.
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