Tag: autism parenting

Why I’m Hovering Near My Special Needs Child

After some very awkward apologies, we took part in an even more awkward hour of singing.

He wasn’t doing it for us. He was doing it for himself.

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.

You don’t need to have someone playing social volleyball with you to have them in your life

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…