Appreciation Makes Life With ASD Easier
How do we get past the stigma? As a parent, finding our way to appreciation of the autism of our child is a tricky path to walk. We hold out hope that things will be better once… (fill in the blank). The blank gets filled in with whatever current challenge we are...
Surviving Their Suffering at Any Age
Does it get easier as your child gets older? Being a parent of a child on the autism spectrum is a very painful and emotional experience for most of us, regardless of the age of our loved one. Sometimes when the anxiety or difficulty with the world overtakes our loved...
How Do You Find Relief from the Difficulties of Life with Autism?
What do you do when their behavior doesn’t make sense? Like most of you who have had a child diagnosed with ASD, my family’s journey was a struggle. Before the diagnosis, I felt desperate and confused. One minute my son seemed so “normal” and the next...
Limitations Redefined
Is seeing autism as a limitation the real limitation? No matter how much the oak wants to be a maple tree, or how hard it believes, or how much therapy you give it, it is an oak tree, and as an oak tree, by its nature, it makes acorns. Asking it to struggle to be a...
Why Does Autism Appreciation Really Matter?
Is autism appreciation more than a socially acceptable, politically correct goal? Yes, absolutely! When you interact with a person on the autism spectrum from a place of appreciation born of real understanding, it categorically changes their experience. In This...