Tag: special needs

Choosing To Listen

What do you want, bud? Why are you staring at me like that?

Nonverbal autism started with nevers before redefining milestones.

Just because someone has the ability to say words, doesn’t mean they should always be speaking.

You go places you never thought you would. You become things you never dreamed.

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.

What hurt the most was that I had accepted them.

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

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

I’m not letting him sludge his way through life. My boy looks good. I make sure of it.