Author: James Guttman

Father of two children - one non-verbal with autism, one verbal without.

My Children Come First

It feels natural at this point to throw in an “I’m sorry to say”, but I’m not.

My daughter, as the child without special needs, shouldn’t feel she has take care of him like it was her job.

Everything I do now is so that one day, he can do it on his own.

Others may cut your down, but that doesn’t mean you can’t put yourself back together and grow. I did.

I remember being excited about my new Freazy Freakies. What type of frozen tundra did I live in?

What hurt the most was that I had accepted them.

The words rocked me to my core, right there in the middle of the home section of Target.

We have a lot less of these interactions as time goes on, but they still happen.

I’ve never had a relationship as special as the unique ones I have with each of them.

It’s a path I never expected to travel, but am glad I had the courage to walk it.