Tag: family

My Special Needs Son, My Illogical Guilt

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

An insatiable appetite, nonverbal autism, and surprising cat-like agility,

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.

I had no idea where this concept came from. For the record, I have never stolen gas.

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.

Glitter, rainbows, and the pure, unadulterated chaos of a Scandinavian Death Metal mosh pit.

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

We use phrases like “they love me in their own way” or “deep down, he means well”…