RESILIENCE

We know what it’s like. Life can be a tough opponent. With each stage you learn more, grow more, and constantly…

BUILD UP RESILIENCY

When you’re young you think of how great it will be to become an adult with all the freedom to do and act however you want. You will not have to go to school and deal with all the intense social scrutiny, worry about grades in seemingly irrelevant classes, or feel uncomfortable and disappointed with your body. While life may be hard, your adult life will certainly be better… Round One.

                  Then comes the challenges of setting up that adult life. This metamorphosis into adulthood may include college, getting your first job, meeting a life partner, staying single, getting married, and starting a family. None of these stages in development feel easy- they are unpredictable, hard, and scary… Round Two.

                  When your baby is diagnosed with autism suddenly you are facing an opponent in a more challenging weight class than you ever expected. Round Three throws you off kilter and you are hit hard every time you see your child miss benchmarks. More punches come when professionals talk about the numerous intensive, essential, and intrusive therapies necessary when all you want to do is take your kid to the park and see them laugh in the sun. Nothing is normal and you must drastically adjust your training… Round Three.

                  Holy Hell, PROFOUND AUTISM!!! The trajectory during Round Three did not go the way you hoped. All the training and resiliency gained throughout your life is supremely tested now. Suddenly you are in the ring with an overpowering opponent who happens also to be a part of the person you love most and want to protect more than anything in the world… Round Four.

That love you have is the extra fuel your previously acquired resiliency bank needs to simply get through the day. Hit after hit (literally and metaphorically) depletes you to the point of staggering. Maybe a TKO is inevitable??? Something within, at that very moment, says “Absolutely Not Happening – this round is not taking me down, my kid down, or my family down.” Your intense resilience gives rise to the deep, gritty strength behind each powerful blow you land in the face of profound autism.

                  You will come out of Round Four bloody, bruised, and exhausted. You will absolutely feel defeated, but you aren’t. We are fighters and should always remind each other of that because our wins do not look like “typical” wins.  Every day we get up to not only get by but to do so with humor and love is what makes us the…

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