Tag: autism parent

My Special Needs Son, My Illogical Guilt

The responsibility I feel has more to do with me than it does with him.

Simply put, he’s mine and I’ll watch over him forever.

Time has made many interactions I once would have thought impossible possible

Don’t let anyone heap guilt on you for the sake of their own ego.

I still understood next to nothing about Autism and even less about what it would be like to have a non-verbal child.

The hour would end, the door would close, and we would all be alone together again.

As the parent to a child with Autism, it pulls me back to the early days of his life…

The thing is, I get it. I get why he wants to run around in the middle of the night…

My parenthood is neither painful nor does it require relief. When I say that I accept my son as he is, I’m not trying to fool myself and others.

When he was two, I could never imagine five. When he was five, I could never imagine seven.