This morning was hard……. really hard. And I can tell you through nearly eight years of navigating autism that my definition of “hard situations” has reached a level of extreme severity to use that word. First day back from break. I knew it would be difficult, it always is. But the events that unfolded IContinue reading “Tough transitions.”
Category Archives: Parenting with Autsim
Sleep deprivation is weighing on me…
Through all of the struggles, hardest parts, and stressful parts of autism. The sleep deprivation is what is weighing down on me heaviest these days. Most nights I see every hour on the clock, it’s been this way for almost ten years. Jackson has never been a great sleeper. He’s never napped, stayed asleep, hisContinue reading “Sleep deprivation is weighing on me…”
Do They Know?
This weekend as we got out of the car in a busy grocery store parking lot, and I immediately reminded my son who has autism to “hold my hand we are in a parking lot”. I thought to myself…. Do people know? When they see my seven year old son, who is nearly taller thanContinue reading “Do They Know?”
Come walk a day in our shoes.
Spend the time walking beside us and understand how hard he works to access our world each and every day. I hope you see that he brushes my shoulder each morning to wake me before the sun. That I gently dress him, brush his hair, his teeth and am working on teaching him to doContinue reading “Come walk a day in our shoes.”
21 Lessons From Autism in 2021
21 Lessons From Autism in 2021: 1. In their own time, in their own way. 2. People are curious and want to understand how to help, asking questions is just often uncomfortable. 3. It has brought some of the strongest, and most genuine women I know into my life. 4. Your behavior, as a parent,Continue reading “21 Lessons From Autism in 2021”
Jackson's Journey, Jackson's Voice 