Hans Asperger once said,

The good and bad in a person, their potential for success or failure, their aptitudes and deficits – they are mutually conditional, arising from the same source. Our therapeutic goal must be to teach the person how to bear their difficulties. Not to eliminate them for him [or her], but to train the person to cope with special challenges with special strategies; to make the person aware not that they are ill, but that they are responsible for their lives.

Isn’t so much of life about bearing witness to our difficulties and working through the murky waters?  And then to celebrate the good moments?  There is nothing to eliminate in life, because in all honesty, life gives us difficult situations so that we can learn and grow into our best selves.

This quote is my reminder that all is well.  This quote helps me to breath – and to remember that Autism isn’t an illness.  Rather, Autism is our teacher of responsibility, social interactions, accepting noises, and recognizing that sometimes we need a break when things are too much.  Lea

This quote is my reminder that we cannot control what life brings to us.  Rather, we can only control how we respond and how we teach our children to respond.  We can control how we love and how we show love to our children.

One of the toughest parts of parenting a child on the spectrum, is allowing my child to fail and to feel the raw emotions.   The protector in me wants to blow a huge bubble around my children , protecting them from the mean words, the stares, the confusion. However, the educator in me knows that these experiences are really our teachers … they are vital experiences in teaching our children about how to live in, our often non-friendly sensory, world.