Let me just say this – my mother is wonderful.
Many parents know that their ASD kid is weird from the beginning, from their early childhood. My parents never did. They never suspected a thing. Yet despite all this, my mother somehow accomodated me and nurtured me in every way she could. I will not, as she would say, ‘air my dirty laundry in public’, but my childhood was not ideal. My mother went through a lot. Yet she continued to fight, and perservere. to create a better life both for her and for me.
When the diagnosis did come to light, when everything fell into place and made so much sense, instead of denying it, she embraced it. She did what she could to learn more about it, and more about me.
Right now, it looks like I’ll be stuck at home, wherever home is, for a while. To be frank, I’m not quite ready to live on my own yet. But each day, my mother continues to teach me more skills, to build on the foundation she put in place so that some day, in the next few years, I will be a successful, independent adult.
I owe everything to my mother. Everything I am is because of her. And if I am ever lucky enough to be a mother, I hope that I am really, truly, just like her.
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11 May, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Your mother is lucky to have you! And, as a mother, let me say this: it’s nice of you to aspire to be like your mother. But if you ever have kids, don’t try to be like your mother. Be your own self. It will be perfect as it. You have already taken on all the values your mother finds important and incorporated them into your own. Never ever try and be some one else.