I remember when she came to me. All aglow; from her head to her toes. I remember that clearly. “Time to go,” she announced. “We’ve finally found a home for you. They’ll be a challenge of course, but you will find all that you need to accomplish your journey.” I was thrilled, but also afraid. [...]
Where’s the box? A question asked by my granddaughter of her new stepmother. This and variations of this question were asked and shows such a vast difference in our society today then say, just a mere sixty years ago. When you think sixty years in ones’ lifetime, yes that is a lot of time; but [...]
I’m adding my drop to the ocean of pages, literature, diagnostic criteria, and expert voices out there because in my life I don’t know if I will ever quite leave off the pain found in allowing my voice to wisp away in the presence of a person I saw as the expert more qualified than me. In her sight out of fear or I don’t even know what I placidly ignored what I knew.
LOVE matters. LOVE counts. LOVE is a Priceless, Inseparable, Unconditional Bond. Yet, what fills & thrills the soul of Human Beings from birth on, is being enjoyed. JOY is a state of being that happens by choice. We allow it to happen, We cause it to happen, We intend it to happen and it does. [...]
October 26, 2009 I called the Regional Center today. It is an organization that provides help for families with kids who have special needs. I got a worker assigned for Nicholas. I described his symptoms and we used the word Autism and Autism spectrum a few times. It was all so civilized. Numbing the affability [...]
