True and Constant Friends: Love and Inspiration from Our Grandmothers, Mothers, and Friends by Kelley Paul

Author:Kelley Paul
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2015-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

“One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people never know about.”

Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation

As any parent who has received an autism diagnosis knows, it is heartbreaking. You have to remind yourself to breathe, because it feels like all the oxygen has been drawn from the room. The happy future you had pictured for your child becomes a dark and confusing blur. As I sat with my acceptance, I saw doorways of possibility closing, one by one. I remember feeling profoundly sad, unlike any sadness I had ever endured.

My mom knew of this sadness, and understood it. During her career as a speech therapist, she had worked with many children with developmental disabilities. She counseled parents who had received crushing diagnoses for their beautiful children. She worked with teenagers who came from home environments fraught with abuse and neglect. She herself knew sadness, as the only child of parents who were substance abusers.

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