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Just Like Me, Just Like You

As I write it out though, it becomes more obvious that this isn’t an Autism story.

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My biggest fear was how I could protect my non-verbal son without being by his side constantly.

Maybe one day, he’ll tell us what is holding him back from using his voice. Maybe he won’t.

It won’t happen overnight for him. It didn’t for me either.

OK. Great. Now I have to fight this guy and the ice cream is going to melt.

For the parent to a non-verbal child, social pleasantries can take on a different feel. They may be social, but they aren’t pleasant.

Sometimes he would look at me. Sometimes he wouldn’t. Still, I’d go on and on about what this person did or what that person said.

Zen’s great. But sometimes it’s OK to be like, “What the…?!”

The more he has learned to use his communication device, the more he has been seeing it as an easy way to score pizza.