The Gift of Learning to Love Life Again: Step One
I am a mom of 4 children. Three of them have Autism. Most people gasp, after that statement. I know what that is like. When I only had one child with Autism, I remember calling a mom that I had heard had three children on the autistic spectrum . I just had to call her, just to hear her voice. I thought my situation was overwhelming with just ONE (so I thought at the time) child with Autism. I could not imagine having more than one. It was kind of a morbid curiosity that I had... to find out what a person would "sound like", that was parenting three children with autism. Forgetting all appropriate phone protocol, I blurted, "I don't think that I would still be alive, if I had THREE with Autism! I think I would have lost it, and that I would be in the fetal position in my closet." I was embarrassed that I could not come up with something....anything else to say to this poor woman! "Ah....If you don't mind my asking...How...