Hello blogging world. I'm the Mother of 4 wonderful children, one of whom is autistic. He is eight years old and his name is Samuel. I have known Samuel is autistic since he was 2 years old. He is currently in second grade at a local public school and my life has been consumed the past few months with trying to straighten out some problems in the methods being used to educate him. My other children are Samuel's older brother, who is 9, his younger brother, who is 4, and his baby sister, who is one.
I have started this blog to share my family's experiences with autism, and to share my approach to life with an autistic child. Let me start by saying that I love my family just the way it is. Life isn't always easy with Samuel, and as time goes on we are limited in what we can do and how we can do it because of Samuel. However, I think my son is very fortunate to have both an older brother (a good role model and a wonderful helper for me) and a younger brother (who is mighty persistent and often forces Samuel to play with him and acknowledge him. I love Samuel's personality and I am determined that I am going to help him lead a fulfilling life. Do I know exactly what I mean by that yet? No, I do not, because I don't fully know Samuel yet. We have lots of hope for him! He is learning to communicate better all the time and I love the parts of himself that he is slowly revealing to us! In no way do I think that he needs to be "cured"! Nor have I ever gone through any kind of "grieving" process for him. Like I said, I am full of hope for him. It may be a lot of work to keep up with him and teach him, but I never ever consider him to be any more of a burden than my other children are!
Please excuse my newness to blogging, and please excuse any seemingly incomplete or unorganized posts that I have. I'm very very overwhelmed and tired right now! In fact, I should probably sign off for right now.
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