I am a mom. I have 4 daughters. Being a parent, I have experienced a lot of situations… no one prepares you for. For example, when my oldest daughter was 5, she stuck an eraser from the end of pencil in her ear. It got stuck. No one told me that this little human would be weird and curious enough to attempt to ruin her own hearing, or even how to explain this to the emergency room doctors. The point I am making is, as a parent you don’t really know what situation you may face on a daily basis, but you still have to figure out how to maneuver through it…Parenting 101.
This lesson I learned is one I learned from my youngest daughter, she is autistic. I never knew what autism was or knew anyone that was on the spectrum before her. She is also non-verbal (meaning she lacks functional language), and has a sensory disorder (meaning certain sounds, lighting, or even the feel of something can be overstimulating or extremely off-putting). As, her mother , I became super…
