Keep going
Keep going blog
As I am writing this, it is just after Xmas and not yet the New Year. Schools only open on the 17th and there is a long way till we get a break. For some of us holidays are hard. Dealing with autistic kids, keeping them busy takes a lot of creative thinking and time. We can’t just send them out to play at the other kids’ houses or tell them to keep themselves occupied outside with a game of kicking the ball or even to sit and watch a bit of TV.
I found that each age or stage of our kids lives have different things that ease up and different challenges that come up and we just have to adapt to those. Right now Max is into a bit of Instagram and while I probably would not be so keen to allow that with a neuro kid, I am happy to see that he has an interest in Dubai and cars and the shenanigans of dogs. It allows me around 10 minutes to just breathe.
Our lives
In the midst of our lives, which are full of the normal things like work, family, holidays, homework, we get to be mama’s to our autistic babies and this looks vastly different to other families. We joke in our family, that on a quiet moment we look around and we are happy and “normal” and the next minute our autistic child comes past wheeling two suitcases full of random things, but quite important to them, saying that he is off to the airport. Weird and funny to an outsider, sure, normal for us, absolutely.
Our lives are so full of unusual happenings and just taking a moment to enjoy the funny, unusual and downright weird sometimes is super fun actually. One thing no one can say, is that we have boring lives, living with an autistic baby. Perhaps you get to walk past the neatest, straightest line of little cars. What an amazing feet. We get to see and experience another world, one that does not make sense to us in the slightest, but makes perfect sense to them. And it is all OK. This is our life.
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Keep going
Sometimes when we are in the thick of things, we get overwhelmed, we think that we would just like to live a normal life for a bit. This kind of thinking just makes everything harder for us. Change your thinking and accept what we are dealing with and you will see the lighter, funnier side of our lives. Think that we are so lucky to have these beautiful children in our lives, think that we get to do things differently, think that we get to be present with our children, think that we get to laugh more often, think that we get to appreciate the smallest of triumphs, the kiss on your lips or when they look you in the eyes.
Open your mind
There is so much to be grateful for and these are the things that keep you going. Even when you are tired, even when you feel like giving up, even when you think you don’t know what to do. If you open your mind to what is good about this, if you change your thinking and start seeing what is absolutely amazing about our children, you will rise up and keep going and actually enjoy the experience that is autism.
We have infinite strength within us and this is the best opportunity to let that strength shine. We are capable of so much more and having autistic children bring us out of a life of frivolity and place us in a world of meaning, and strength and enjoyment. Living this life is different, but no less rewarding.
If you are battling with overwhelm, impatience, tiredness, the first thing you need to change is your thinking. You can do this and it is easier than you think. Once you start changing your thinking your whole life will change, things will start changing around you and things will seem more than possible, they will be more possible.
Keep going. Your child needs that from you and to assure them is easy to do. You need to do the work around this, to show that you can handle anything. You need to be calmer and in charge and they will relax and be calmer and follow your lead.
Till next week
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