“As a parent with a special needs child, we are expected to have a medical degree, multiple therapy degrees, education degrees, degrees in nutrition, psychology and more. (I’ll be able to claim the psychology degree in a few months.) At least it seems that way when we take our child with Autism to the doctor or consult one.”
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“The lame walk, the blind saw. The leper was healed, and the dead lived again. The New Testament is full of Christ’s miracles of healing. We read of great faith of many with and without names that are given.
Something the Bible doesn’t say?
It doesn’t say that every single person with an ailment was healed in Judea. It doesn’t say that every single person who had faith to be healed was healed. “
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“I don’t have any magic advice. For those of you dealing with five. Just know that those of us at 13? We’re here for you. We’ll help you through.”
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If there is one thing I have found in this special needs parenting journey, is that no two parents will react to the news in the same way.”
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“Yes, it’s almost like we are asking you to be God. But you don’t have all the answers, and can’t preform all the miracles.”
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“I know we are not your ideal of a customer. You would rather not have us enrolled on your rolls.
Yours is a business that is for-profit. You want to make money. But despite our paying you hundreds of dollars every year, and then paying thousands of dollars out of pocket every year, our family puts you in the red every year.”
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“Some days we can rejoice at the step forward our child has made. And we do. But some days we have to give ourselves grace, realizing that what we are doing is HARD. And right now, I just want to avoid anymore hard. I need hard not to exist for a while. And I think that is where the ignoring, the procrastination, the indifference to it all is coming from. I’m human. This is my life. And it’s hard.” Read more. . .
“This line we walk as parents is often confusing, and you find yourself always second guessing if you are making the right choices.” Read more. . .
“Am I to blame for my child’s diagnosis?”
This is the question parents with Special Needs ask themselves, pretty much without exception. There is A LOT of guilt that accompanies having a special needs child. I have seen it in both with Mothers and Fathers. At some point in our parenting journey, no matter the circumstances, we wonder or blame ourselves.
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“For at the past two years I have been praying about our life in Washington State. It started when I learned that Washington state has a law that the age of consent for drug rehabilitation treatment and psychiatric treatment is 13. This means that at the age of 13, a child can get treatment without a parent’s knowledge. But it also means that they can refuse treatment that they need.” Read more. . .
