Estée KlarThe Joy of Autism

You know that feeling. You wake up in the morning and you can just feel what kind of day it’s going to be. It happened for me the moment I saw the moon rise over the ocean in Miami at the moment the sun was also setting — that rare “blue moon” that happens only once every nineteen years. I felt that this is going to be a good year. Not without it’s trials, but “good” in the way I can deal with them now.

It’s time to talk about autism again. It’s time to talk about all the services we don’t have, the Inclusion we must have as well as specialized services when we need them. It’s a year to find our commonalities not differences, and where there are serious differences, we have to discuss them intelligently. At the end of the day, whether you are in one “camp” or another, most of us want our children to be happy, healthy and as independent as possible (but it may not happen and we have to make the best of that too). As a mom who is watching Adam grow, we need to teach more things to him this year, mainly communication. We will have more assistance using new programs and devices this year because I have sought it out from others. I have realized that I just can’t do it all alone, but I know when to reach out and ask for help. It’s a year where mom is “back,” (she was dealing with other business last year), and wants to provide Adam the best education he deserves. I hope we can all work together. We gotta be cool, we gotta be wiser. We gotta be tough, we gotta stay together….

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