Over the last few months I have read 7 or 8 blogs of families with autism (when a child has it, the family has it) and when I say read I mean I started at the very beginning of their blogs and read them to the end like a book. I have notice a few common things while reading them:
- Most kids with autism LOVE the water
- If the kid with autism has a sibling that is typical, after a while the typical kid seems harder to handle the the autistic one.
- SSI denies EVERYONE the help we need for our kids, it doesn't matter where you live in the USA.
- Mom's of autistic families are ALWAYS depressed and BEYOND tired and to these moms it feels like that ALL THE TIME. Is there a connection between the depression/tiredness and that fact that we gave birth to kids with autism?
when the internet goes down, why not try introducing something new to Kassidy and Shane. Who knows, mabey they would enjoy a change of pace. the only problem I could forsee is that you would have to tell Babygirl what is about to happen.
ReplyDeletePreparing her is what gets her through easier and it is hard to prepare when you do not know when something will happen. I will just pray to the internet gods that it never goes down!
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